Very Cool.  Congratulations all.

Ron Teitelbaum


> -----Original Message-----
> From: squeak-dev-bounces at lists.squeakfoundation.org [mailto:squeak-
> dev-bounces at lists.squeakfoundation.org] On Behalf Of Andreas Raab
> Sent: Saturday, December 24, 2011 11:51 AM
> To: The general-purpose Squeak developers list
> Subject: [squeak-dev] Re: Squeak 4.3 released
> 
> 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
> >
> >
> >
> > 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/15
> > 0658.html
> >
> >
> > Happy Holidays Hacking,
> >
> > the Squeak Oversight Board
> >
> >
> >
> 
>