Re: [Help-smalltalk] Future Plans of GNU Smalltalk

[Paolo Bonzini]

> - The use of Native Widgets.
> - MultiThreading.
> - Generate exe files.
> - and so on..
>
> I would like to hear, the roadmap in near time (corto plazo en español), 
> finishing this year, and next year.

Neither of these :-)

Because I know only the short term of my personal life, I aim to get out 
in 2008 (possibly September) the 3.1 version with more Seaside (e.g. 
Scriptaculous and Magritte) and with finished Cairo/LibSDL/OpenGL bindings.

For 3.2 it's probably time to work on the browser, possibly using 
OmniBrowser.  But I don't know yet what to do for that, nor do I know 
the timeframe.  I don't work fulltime on GNU Smalltalk, though the 
overall time I use in a week is probably around 12 hours (10 commutes 
plus something here and there).

Native widgets require extensive testing which I cannot afford. 
Multithreading is important but is very complex.  Generating executable 
files could be done relatively easily by embedding the image in a GNU 
Smalltalk executable and relinking; it would definitely be portable to 
Linux and MacOS (using "ld -r"), I guess the same would work with MSys.

Paolo