[squeak-dev] Re: Squeak 4.3 released

Andreas Raab andreas.raab at gmx.de
Sat Dec 24 16:51:29 UTC 2011


Great! Something to play with over the holidays :-)
Thanks to everyone who has helped getting it under the Christmas tree.

Cheers,
   - Andreas

On 12/24/2011 0:49, Chris Cunnington wrote:
> http://ftp.squeak.org/4.3/Squeak4.3.zip
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>
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> 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
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>
> Happy Holidays Hacking,
>
> the Squeak Oversight Board
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