Pavel Krivanek posted to the Squeak-dev mailing list the code for a simple test server implementation, to automate running of the Squeak SUnit tests.
Category: Squeak
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Cryptography On The Move
The Cryptography Team released the first version of Squeak SSL! http://lists.squeakfoundation.org/pipermail/announcements/2006-October/000050.html . There is still much to be done, but it’s nice to see the team on the move. Come join the team http://lists.squeakfoundation.org/mailman/listinfo/cryptography .
The code can be found at www.squeaksource.com/Cryptography . Special thanks to everyone that helped make this possible and espically Rob Withers for pulling it all together. Rob’s code is really beautiful.
There is still plenty of work to be done so please stop by and volenteer to help!
Ron Teitelbaum * Cryptography Team Leader
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Squeak Documentation Team forming
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!
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Strongtalking Squeak
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
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Squeak 3.9 enters RC stage
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.
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Squeak Foundation Board meeting notes – September 20th, 2006
Craig Latta posted to the Squeak-dev mailing list the notes for the Squeak Foundation Board meeting which occurred on September 20th. The Squeak Foundation Board meets twice a month via IM on the first and third wednesday, and Craig has been appointed to speak for the board.
During the last meeting the following topics were discussed:
- Stephane Ducasse’s resignment from the board: the board, after having sought the counsel of the Election team, decided to leave Stephane’s place vacant until the next elections (which will on February 2007)
- Open sourcing of Squeak: now that Apple has re-released version 1.1 of Squeak under the
APSL 2.0 License, work is underway to change the license for all the others Squeak releases. In order to do so, all the contributors in the past ten years have to be contacted. The board decide to start working on this task by compiling a list of all the contributors, taken from the authors’ initials.
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Exupery News
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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