The Weekly Squeak

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…

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.…