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
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 site. The Squeak version of the server code can be installed with the script that came with with the release announcement.
The Squeak project aimed at creating a tiny kernel has released a new version. Double clicking the application starts the tiny image, which broadcasts a webpage on localhost. The web page presents a link to start the development image environment, which provides an open browser window for inspecting the classes of the tiny running image.
David T. Lewis has released a build script for the Unix virtual machine. You feed it into a starting image, things happen, and a vm is produced. It’s a great time saver and reading the script is a super way to learn the basics of vm compilation.
Squeak took possession of a new Virtual Server from Gandi.net provided courtesy of our legal home, the Software Freedom Conservancy. The existing Jenkins server will be moved over to the new location and expanded to manage more jobs. Those jobs will not just be for running tests on the trunk image, but for virtual machine compilation. It is to be hoped that having a working start-to-finish build script that anybody can run will help to document the process and make it more accessible to all Squeakers.
Summer’s over, so it’s time to see what the Google Summer Of Code has produced. The projects and their completed source code can be found at this Summer Of Code page.
As with the ESUG Technology Innovation Awards there are some browsers, profilers, and visualization tools. The Hazelnut project aims to create a tiny kernel image. There is an online interactive Smalltalk tutorial, which is not actually online. You can download it as a tarball. Tanker will allow you to use Fuel for package management. The HMI project connects Amber as a front end with Pharo as a back end.
Congratulations to Janko Mivsek and Carla F. Griggio for making this year’s GSOC happen.
http://lists.squeakfoundation.org/pipermail/squeak-dev/2012-September/165795.html
There is the regular Browser for looking at source code. Sure.
And then there’s the Swiss Army Knife version of the browser, the OmniBrowser, which tells you ranges of information at a glance. The OmniBrowser is now in the trunk. Instructions for installation are available by following the link.
http://lists.squeakfoundation.org/pipermail/squeak-dev/2012-September/165816.html
Ian Piumarta has released new sources for the non-Cog Squeak virtual machine. The 4.10 sources are available at http://squeakvm.org/unix
Some of the new additions include updating to the lastest version of VMMaker, removing old autotools files, and plugins for Scratch support.
http://www.squeaksource.com/RFB
http://lists.squeakfoundation.org/pipermail/squeak-dev/2012-September/165740.html
Deploying an image headless in a server leaves a developer without the same GUI used to create an application. Remote Frame Buffer (VNC) gives that GUI back to the developer while running an application in a server. Ian Piumarta recently updated RFB to work with the latest versions of Squeak. He was assisted in doing this by Levente Uzonyi, who has added partial clipboard support to RFB.
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