The Weekly Squeak

The last talk for Wednesday’s morning session was delivered by Marcus and Stef, releasers of Squeak 3.9, and it was a quick recap on what happened in the world of Squeak in the last year. Here are the main points:

• The new SqueakFoundation is now working. It has 7 board members, and its role is to promote Squeak and coordinate the various Squeak communities
• The new Squeak Website is now managed by the community (the Squeak Webteam)
• The Team system is fully operational. Everything in the Squeak community is managed by Teams (3.9 development, Webteam, Tools etc.). Each team delivers a monthly report on its activities.
• Squeak 1.1 is now the open-source certificed APSL 2.0 license

The new Squeak version 3.9 has reached Gamma stage and will soon be available as a stable release. Its main features:

• Pragmas
• Merged back 3.8 Squeakland & Smallland changes
• A new default look
• lots of fixes
• ToolBuilder (UI abstraction)
• Services framework
• Changes in event notifications mechanism
• Lots of new tests
• New AST
• Closure compiler
• Monticello version management
• SqueakSource
• the Omnibrowser framework and related tools
• SqueakMap
• Shout, eCompletion
• Refactoring browser now integrated
• new SUnit browser.
• Christo: a code coverage browser

There are also a lots of projects going on which are related to Squeak. Stef did a brief presentation of each:

• Tweak
• Sophie
• Croquet
• Spoon
• Seaside
• Exupery, Chronos, Pier, Magma

Marcus and Stef also proposed some lines of action for the next 3.10 release
Lots of talks, few actions