The Weekly Squeak

The Weekly Squeak

  • A call for suggestions for the Foundation Board meetings’ agenda items

    Craig Latta has setup a page on Squeak People in order to gather agenda items for the biweekly IM meetings of the Squeak Foundation board. Anyone interested in suggesting an item may do so by leaving a comment to Craig’s article.

  • Spoon progress report – October 3rd 2006

    Craig Latta posted a new progress report on his Spoon project, which aims to create a minimal live system based on Squeak. Craig announces that in his quest for getting a really minimal system, he managed to remove the SystemDictionary class, a class that plays a fundamental role in a standard Squeak (and Smalltalk system).

  • New Releases in the Squeak world

    In the past week some interesting announcements appeared on the Squeak-dev mailing list: Pavel Krivanek announced support for the Monticello version control system in his KernelImage system. While this version of Monticello lacks some of the options (some tools are missing, and support for some repositories such as SMTP and SuperSwiki has been removed), it’s…

  • The Fight for Open Source

    Open Source vs. Private Development By: Ron Teitelbaum * Ron@USMedRec.com It’s an important question: Where does the advantage lie? When private development funds projects, full time and very talented people can be attracted by money and the potential financial rewards that come from private ownership. Open source development has the advantage of larger numbers of…

  • A new format for CompiledMethods

    The current implementation of CompiledMethods objects is quite complicated. This is due to the fact that this class is one of the most important for the Squeak VM: it holds the information the VM needs to execute a method. This meant that many of the changes that have occured on this class focused on backwards…

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