Great stuff, so there is no way not to change everything immediately to 1.4? All seems to be better :)
But to be honest, I think the changes list is big enough for 4 releases. We should make smaller releases. Norbert Am 19.04.2012 um 10:37 schrieb Marcus Denker: > Hi, > > We need an announce mail / new ticker entry. Any quick improvements / typo > fixes? > > =========================================================================================== > > We are proud to announce the release of 1.4 of Pharo! > > You can find information about Pharo on http://www.pharo-project.org. > In particular, you may be interested in: > - How to join us and get help: http://www.pharo-project.org/community > - Getting the Pharo By Example book (also available as a free PDF): > http://www.pharobyexample.org > - Watching the screencasts: http://www.pharocasts.com > - Reporting problems: > http://www.pharo-project.org/community/issue-tracking > - Read the new forth coming book: http://rmod.lille.inria.fr/pbe2 (yes > we love and value documentation) > - Read the Pharo vision document: (PDF): http://bit.ly/HNkEru > > About this release > --------------- > > All in all, there were over 860 issues treated in the issue tracker. > > http://code.google.com/p/pharo/issues/list?can=1&q=milestone%3D1.4 > > Read it again, yes 860 is huge, take two minutes and have a look at the list > of improvements! Now you got the feel of the effort. > And this not our own work but the work of our community! It is possible > because people worldwide helped! We want to deeply > thank them. > > We want to thank in particular INRIA for its constant support, in particular > for the salary of Igor Stasenko and for help in the > infrastructure put in place. > > We have accomplished this huge task for a better system because we were > together. > Do not forget that we are working on a consortium to support our system. > Do not forget that our goal is to build a system so that we can make a living > with our creativity and programming skills. > > Read the Pharo vision document and join! > > Thanks ***a lot*** for your participation, energy and fun. > > > The Pharo Team > > Some Items of 1.4 > ---------------- > Not all the changes are reported here, but this is to give you an impression. > > Changes > > - New code model: Ring > - Support for startUp preference script > - #class message is not a byte code anymore > - Better union and intersection methods > - Better primitive simulation > - Better headless support > - Better support for error at startup > - Introduction of FileSystem > - Less dependencies: Color, Scrollbar do not depend on Compiler anymore > - Cleaning tests > - Unload hostSystemsMenus > - More consistent API for browser opening > - No event pulling anymore > - More class comments > - Announcement driven system notification > - Better API for sharedPool > > Zinc Improvement > > - New mechanism for Zinc servers start/stop handling after system > startUp/shutDown > - and a lot a lot and a lot more. > > Tools > > - Support Cherrypicking when merging > - Better timeProfilerBrowser > - Better MC commit error > - MC handles better dependencies > - Better Debugger > - Better Inspector > - Search in tools > - New Finder tool > - Cmd-Click for senders and implementors > - Senders and implementors deals with class > - Better tool registry > - Improvements for the FlatBrowser > - Better Transcripter > - Faster diffBuilder > - MetacelloConfigurationBrowser to browse published configurations > - New version of OCompletion and Ecompletion that can play together and > without code duplication. > > UI > > - Support grouping windows as tab > - Better search > - MultiSelection improvements > - Drag and drop in multi selection list > - PluggableListMorph improvements > - PluggableListMorph selection on drag > - Iconic Button improvements > - PharoTheme > - Better CheckBox > - Enhanced PluggableButtonMorph > - Polymorph enhancements > - Deprecate PluggableListMorphOfMany > - Merged NewParagraph and MultiNewParagraph > - New Widget: Ticking list and widget > - LazyListMorph cleaning > - NewTextMorph and TextComposer improvements > - Improve behavior of MorphTreeMorph > - Removing NewTextMorph and related > - StringMorph > > Cleaning > > - Object > - Old HTTP code > - No references to Utilities > - Removed toolbuilder > - Restructure packages > - Canvas hierarchy > - MorphicModel > - Deprecate recentMessageSet > - Deprecate ImageSegment > - Deprecate MessageNames > - Deprecate TimeProfileBrowser > - Really cleaning messageSet and subclasses > - SystemChangeNotifier > - Removed Project > - Removed BlockContext , blue book old closure encodings > - Font downloading > - HandMorph cleaning > > > Some Fixes > > - Set growth with nil > - Better weak finalization > - isPrime fixed > - Compiler Fixes > - Russian characters in editor > - More class comments > - Fix drawing shadow morphs > - Trait support > - Fixed syntax hilighting > - Better pointersTo: > - Speedup MethodDictionary #rehash > - Compiler enhancements. > - Stream should not print its contents > - Progress bar > - InputSensor > - CombinedChar > - BytexTextConverter fixes > > -- > Marcus Denker -- http://marcusdenker.de > >
