Hi Esteban, The list you provide looks great. The main problem I am facing is about fonts. This is not completely solved.
Alexandre > Le 04-06-2014 à 17:36, Esteban Lorenzano <[email protected]> a écrit : > > Hi, > > A couple of weeks ago we started to plan Pharo4. This work became stagnated > for many reasons, but mainly because I needed to travel to Argentina. > Now I'm slowly resuming the work and I wanted to share with you what we have > been talking/dreaming. > In esence, we have two important drivers for this release: > > 1) Improving tools > Turns out that we have introduced a lot of kernel improvements (opal > compiler, layouts, slots, etc.) and tools are still not aware of them. Even > worst: we have traits since a lot of time and our tools are still now aware > enough to provide good interoperability. > But not just that: we have introduced things that are not well used yet: > keybindings (who do not want a better keybindings structure... coherent and > editable?), spec should allow us to continue enhancing existing tools and to > replace old ones. > > 2) Modularisation > One of the fundamental ideas behind Pharo is to provide a modular > environment. But well... since Pharo start to the moment, we prepared things > to allow it, but still few direct effort has been made. > In our dreams, Pharo should be built starting for a small kernel image and > adding different modules to get a complete version. In this idea > Pharo=Kernel+GUI(Morphic)+Tools. > This has huge advantages (I do not think is necesary to explain them, isn't > ;)?) > > We brainstomed around this and we get this list of issues (not all of them > directly related to the objectives, but well... good stuff also :) ) > > Web site: > - add catalog > - add videos > - enhance it in general > > Infrastructure: > - support more vm platforms > > VM: > - spur > - 64bits > - make vm embedable and UI independent (with SDL2 and OSWindow) > > Image: > - Modularisation > - Removing old compiler > - Repackage Morphic (to allow better modularisation) > - Athens (replace old bitblt) > > Tools > - Replace changes with Ombu/Epicea > - Replace sources with a better abstraction > - Git support inside image (with libgit2 + tools) > - Pass on Spec > - Include Glamour? > - Make Ring unloadable > - Fonts with FreeType > > And lots of bugfixes :) > > We would like to exchange ideas with you. > So, what do you think? > > Esteban > >
