The Weekly Squeak

Category: Squeak

  • Strongtalking Squeak

    STRONGTALK
    Smalltalk... with a need for speed

    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

  • 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.
    Also, Pavel Krivanek has prepared another version of his Kernel image based on this 7061 update.

  • 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:

    1. 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)
    2. 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.

  • 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.