Matthew Fulmer has announced the creation of a Documentation Team. The purpose of this new team will be the production and mantainance of Squeak releated documentation: tutorials, references and the like.
The team will start by compiling an index of the existing documentation, and by starting a Squeak developer tutorial.
We’d like to wish Matthew and the other team members a good work!
Dan Ingalls pointed out that Strongtalk is now open source. The community now has an important opportunity and decision to make. Should we work with Strongtalk to build a Strongtalk VM for Squeak. There are a number of potential advantages to this path (see www.strongtalk.org) . There could also be risks. As our community changes it is important that issues like these be addressed publically, so that a broader range of the community can participate. Please join the discussion and move this issue forward while the opportunity still exists.
Dan followed up on his original post with a Community Challenge:
Tell ya what…
Here’s $5000 that says “some smart guy” will do it before the end of 2006.
<lays money on table with a bottle of champagne on top>
😉
UPDate: David Griswold and Dan Ingalls call for VM Summit on: http://groups.google.com/group/strongtalk-general
see: http://lists.squeakfoundation.org/pipermail/squeak-dev/2006-October/109526.html for details
Stephane Ducasse has released update 7061 of the 3.9g release, and proposed calling it final. Following the discussion on the proposal, it was agreed that to call it a release candidate and look for showstopping bugs which may have escaped release team’s attention.
Also, Pavel Krivanek has prepared another version of his Kernel image based on this 7061 update.
Looks like Exupery’s development is going full steam: Bryce Kampjes, Exupery’s developer, recently released version 0.09, which includes bug fixes and dynamically inlined primitives.
Patrick Mauritz announced a port of the Exupery VM to Solaris, while Andrew Tween ported the VM to Windows. And just today John M McIntosh, mantainer of the Mac Squeak VM, produced an experimental Exupery VM for Apple systems.
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