Ben
On Mar 18, 2013, at 11:12 AM, Marcus Denker <marcus.den...@inria.fr> wrote:
> We are proud to announce the release of Pharo 2.0!
>
> You can find information about Pharo at: http://www.pharo-project.org
>
>
> About this release
> ------------------
> All in all, there were over 1600 issues treated in the issue tracker
> and 1350 improvements integrated into 2.0.
>
> http://code.google.com/p/pharo/issues/list?can=1&q=Milestone%3D2.0+status%3AIntegrated
>
> Read it again, yes 1350 is huge, take two minutes and have a look at the list
> of
> improvements! Now you got the feel of the effort. And this was a true
> community
> effort. It is possible because people worldwide helped! We want to deeply
> thank them.
>
> We want to thank Inria for its constant support, in particular for the salary
> of Igor
> Stasenko and Esteban Lorenzano, and for the help in the infrastructure.
>
> 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:
>
> - http://consortium.pharo.org (for companies and organizations)
> - http://association.pharo.org (for individuals)
>
> Our goal is to build a system so that we can make a living with our
> creativity and
> programming skills.
>
> You can find information about Pharo on http://www.pharo-project.org. In
> particular,
> you may be interested in:
>
> - Joining us and getting help http://www.pharo-project.org/community
> - Getting the Pharo By Example book (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
> - Reading the forth coming book http://rmod.lille.inria.fr/pbe2
> - Reading the Pharo vision document http://bit.ly/HNkEru
>
> Thanks a lot for your participation, energy and fun.
>
> -- The Pharo Team
>
> Summarized issues for 2.0
> ==================
>
> UI
> ---
>
> - Spec
> - Widget enhancements
> - Layout improvements/cleanups
> - Keybindings
> - New icons (famfam)
> - Growl style notifications
> - Revamp progress bar
>
> Developer tools
> ---------------
>
> - Nautilus browser
> - Critics browser
> - Improved version diff browsing
> - Spotlight
> - Revamp Code Completion and smart chars
> - Interactive navigation using ctrl/cmd+click over classes/methods
> - Shout themes
> - Andreas profiler
>
> Networking
> -----------
>
> - Update Zinc
> - Zodiac (SSL)
>
> System
> -------
>
> - System Announcer
> - RPackage replacing PackageInfo
> - Command line tools / Headless mode
> - Native boost
> - Update Ring metamodel
> - Fuel serializer
> - Freetype fonts
>
> Kernel
> ------
>
> - DateAndTime refactoring
> - Updated FileSystem and replaced FileDirectory
>
> VM
> --
>
> - Latests cog builds
> - SSLPlugin
> - FilePlugin enhancements
> - SocketPlugin fixes
> - Included libraries: freetype2, cairo
>
> Cleanups
> -------------
>
> - FileDirectory removed (replaced by FileSystem)
> - SmartRefStream and ReferenceStream removed (replaced by Fuel)
> - PackageInfo deprecated (replaced by RPackage)
>
> Other
> -------
>
> - Zeroconf scripts
> - Continuous Integration for every aspect of our release process.
>
> Not all the changes are reported here, but this is to give you an impression,
> you can find better explanation here:
> https://code.google.com/p/pharo/wiki/ActionsInPharo20
>
>
>
