The Weekly Squeak

Tim Rowledge is working on the Raspberry Pi. There are old sources for a RiscOS virtual machine at http://www.squeakvm.org. They have been obsolete for a while. With this new platform, Tim is going to bake an updated RiscOS virtual machine for Squeak that works on the Raspberry Pi computer. Pi will be served early in…

SqueakSource is winding down. If you have a project there, you need to start thinking about moving it to either SqueakSource3 or SmalltalkHub. In the near future SqueakSource will take a new shape. It may be read only. The files may be stored in a mirror site with a clunky web interface. Move your project…

David T. Lewis has created 64-bit images that run on the standard interpreter (non-Cog) virtual machine. He has written a script that instructs the SystemTracer to create a 64-bit image. Proof of the success of his experiment can be seen at the Squeak’s continuous integration server. The full announcement can be found here: http://lists.squeakfoundation.org/pipermail/squeak-dev/2012-November/166422.html

http://www.squeakci.org  Squeak has been experimenting with a Jenkins continuous integration server at a beta site for several months. With the assistance of the Sofware Freedom Conservancy, Squeak secured a virtual private server from Gandi hosting. This is now the new and permanent home of the Jenkins server.

Mozilla:  “There is no data. There is only XUL!” Pavel Krivanek has released Phobos for Squeak. Xul is a technology from Mozilla to create native GUI applications. Pavel has created a server back end based on Seaside that connects to the Xul created applications. The regular Phobos framework can be downloaded from the Google Code…