The Weekly Squeak

http://lists.squeakfoundation.org/pipermail/squeak-dev/2012-December/166934.html Squeak is in the process of releasing its latest version – Squeak4.4. Frank Shearar, the release manager, has just released the latest release candidate for public vetting by the community. Download it. Take a look. Post feedback on the Squeak-dev mailing list.

Hi Folks, Cuis 4.1 is available at http://www.jvuletich.org/Cuis/Index.html. Biggest news is in the Morph hierarchy. Ivars ‘bounds’ and ‘fullBounds’ are gone! All coordinates are now Float and relative to the owner morph. This is part of the transition to Morphic 3. The drawing engine is still BitBlt and the UI is not scalable yet, but…

It is a pleasure to announce that the Squeak community has taken possession of a second server courtesy of the Software Freedom Conservancy and Gandi.net. With the servers Squeak has taken possession of over the last six weeks, all services will be moved to a new home. The era where several times a year our servers…

http://box3.squeak.org:8624 The Altitude web framework with a Twitter Bootstrap HTML/CSS template has laid the foundation for a new homepage for Squeak. There are still lots of details to marshal. Not being an expert web site designer, it’s a good idea to throw the question open to the world. What change would you make to this…

Tim Rowledge is working on the Raspberry Pi. There are old sources for a RiscOS virtual machine at http://www.squeakvm.org. They have been obsolete for a while. With this new platform, Tim is going to bake an updated RiscOS virtual machine for Squeak that works on the Raspberry Pi computer. Pi will be served early in…