thanks a lot for your greta and continuous effort On May 26, 2012, at 7:04 AM, Martin Dias wrote:
> Hi all, > > We are proud to announce Fuel 1.8 with a lot of new features and > documentation. Of course, we don't stop working but it was time to > freeze a stable version. > > Fuel is an open-source general-purpose object serialization framework > developed in Pharo Smalltalk environment. More information on our > website [1]. > > Fuel works out of the box in Pharo from 1.1 up to 2.0 (checked at > #20094). Please check our documentation [2] for complete installation > and use guides. > > Below, there are some remarkable changes. > > - Much more complete user guides. > - Improved API for customizing how graph is traced. > - FuelMetalevel: serialization of stuff like classes and compiled > methods moved to an optional package. > - Customize objects to be treated as globals. > - Migrations: declare at materialization time class and variables renames. > - Weak references properly managed. Thanks to Juan Vuletich and Levente. > - Thanks Pavel for helping us improving FuelPackageLoader with > wonderful ideas and bug reports. > - Serialization speed up on large graphs by using specialized > collections. Thanks Levente. > - Encoder and Decoder: new reifications that clarify the design. > Thanks Colin Putney. > - Optimized serialization of "clean" BlockClosures, which don't need > the whole stack of contexts. Thanks Juan Vuletich and Eliot Miranda. > - Added a clear error hierarchy. > - Debug facilities, including graph visualization using Roassal. > Thanks Alexandre and Doru. > - Many more new tests. Including those from extension packages, we > have almost 600 tests. > - Repository moved from 'http://www.squeaksource.com/Fuel' to > 'http://ss3.gemstone.com/ss/Fuel'. > > If you are a Fuel user we are not aware of, please let us know! > > Best regards, > Martin and Mariano > > [1]: http://rmod.lille.inria.fr/web/pier/software/Fuel > [2]: > http://rmod.lille.inria.fr/web/pier/software/Fuel/Version1.8/Documentation >
