[squeak-dev] Squeak 4.3 released

Lawson English lenglish5 at cox.net
Sat Dec 24 02:36:21 UTC 2011


I managed to load all of the packages from the "How to extend the 
system" window except the Omnibrowser, which has never worked for me.

However, Seaside 3.0 won't "start".

Using Mac OS X 10.6.8 (Intel).

Lawson

On 12/23/11 4:49 PM, Chris Cunnington wrote:
> http://ftp.squeak.org/4.3/Squeak4.3.zip
>
>
>
> Welcome to the release of Squeak 4.3.
>
> There aren't any applications bundled with this release. Instead of 
> working on applications to bundle with the image, core developers have 
> been inspired by the Cog virtual machine to look deeply into the image 
> for things they wanted to change. As a result, the image is becoming 
> smaller, tidier, and nimbler.
>
> There are five Welcome Workspaces in Squeak 4.3. The second is called 
> Future Directions:
>
> - This image is ~15M. If you execute - Smalltalk 
> unloadAllKnownPackages - it will become ~10M
>
> - A SqueakCore image is available at http://ftp.squeak.org/4.3
>
> - A reasonable target is the creation of a smaller image, which may be 
> a task before the community
>
> - A place to explore where to make reductions is likely the 
> removal/replacement of GUIs
>
> - Once we have a smaller core image, we can employ Andreas Raab's memo 
> [1] on how to load code back into the image. This will be based on 
> tests delineating the separate responsibilities of core and 
> application developers
>
>  [1]]http://lists.squeakfoundation.org/pipermail/squeak-dev/2010-May/150658.html
>
>
> Happy Holidays Hacking,
>
> the Squeak Oversight Board
>
>

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