Thanks guys this is great. I'm really happy to see that the effort we started two years ago is paying off.
Stef On Mar 28, 2013, at 6:40 PM, Martin Dias <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi all, > > We are happy to announce Fuel 1.9. > > Fuel is an open-source general-purpose object serialization framework > developed in Pharo. You can find more information on our website [1]. > > The default set of packages of this version already comes in Pharo 2.0, so > you it's not necessary to install it there. However, Fuel also works > out-of-the-box in Pharo from 1.1 up to 2.0, as well as in Squeak 4.1 up to > 4.4. You can see our documentation [2] for complete installation and use > guides. > > Changes: > > - (feature) DoIt and not-installed CompiledMethods are fully serialized by > default. > - (fix) Date & DateAndTime (thanks Cami and Marcus) (already included in Fuel > 1.8.1 and 1.8.2). > - (feature) New hooks methods #fuelNew and #fuelNew: for custom instantiation > (see "Hooking instance creation" in Customizing the Graph). > - Globals: > - Added #globalEnvironment: to specify where the globals are looked-up. > (see "Changing the environment" in Managing Globals). > - Explicit references to "Smalltalk globals" changed to "self class > environment". > - A SystemDictionary instance is not treated as global when it is not > "Smalltalk globals". > - Documentation: > - General update > - New Format Migration section. > - New Built-in Header Support section. > - (feature) Put back FLSerializer>>on:. > - (optimization) New clusters for SmallInteger. > - (optimization) New clusters for most common collections. > - (feature) Built-in support for header (See Built-in Header Support): > - pre and post materialization actions (clean closures). > - attach additional objects. > - materialize only the header. > - (fix) Safer substitutions (see > FLPluggableSubstitutionTest>>testPrivateExcluded). > - (feature) Materialize .fuel files when drag&dropped in the image. > - (cleanup) Removed unneeded cluster: FLWellKnownObjectsCluster. > > [1]: http://rmod.lille.inria.fr/web/pier/software/Fuel > [2]: > http://rmod.lille.inria.fr/web/pier/software/Fuel/Version1.9/Documentation > > We want to thank developers of the community that enrich the project with > code, issue reports and ideas. > > Have fun! > > Martin (on behalf of Mariano and Max, who worked a lot on this version)
