The Weekly Squeak

SqueakSource is winding down. If you have a project there, you need to start thinking about moving it to either SqueakSource3 or SmalltalkHub. In the near future SqueakSource will take a new shape. It may be read only. The files may be stored in a mirror site with a clunky web interface. Move your project…

David T. Lewis has created 64-bit images that run on the standard interpreter (non-Cog) virtual machine. He has written a script that instructs the SystemTracer to create a 64-bit image. Proof of the success of his experiment can be seen at the Squeak’s continuous integration server. The full announcement can be found here: http://lists.squeakfoundation.org/pipermail/squeak-dev/2012-November/166422.html

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.