Maybe you can add a link to http://www.symbaloo.com/mix/pharo
This may help people trying to find their way for the first time in the
jungle.

Phil

2012/4/19 Marcus Denker <[email protected]>

> 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
>
>
>


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