ANN: StepTalk 0.10.0

[Stefan Urbanek]

Hi,

Major update - new classes, new tools, new functionality,  interface
changes, removed obsoleted stuff.

What is StepTalk?
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Language independent scripting framework for GNUstep.

More information: http://mediawiki.gnustep.org/index.php/StepTalk

Introduction:
http://stefan.agentfarms.net/Download/GNUstep/Documents/StepTalk-intro.pdf

What is new in 0.10.0
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    * introduced new language management (STLanguageManager)
    * introduced remote scripting (STRemoteConversation)
    * new tool for semi-persistent environments: stenvironment
    * added reading from stdin to stexec
    * added remote scripting to stshell and stexec
    * new conversation methods
    * removed tools: stalk, stupdate_languages
    * removed depreciated methods from STEnvironment
    * removed class STLanguage
    
    Notes:
    - you can delete */Library/StepTalk/Configuration directories

Download
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Get it (in a short time) from: ftp://ftp.gnustep.org/pub/gnustep/libs/
or get it immediately from GNUstep CVS.

About semi-persistent shared environment
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What is a semi-persistent shared environment? It is a scripting
environment that resides in a stand-alone process and therefore is, from
application's or tool's point of view, persistent for a whole computer
session. That means that the environment exists until the process is
terminated. The environment can be shared by more applications or can be
used by a several subsequent launches of a tool.

More about the environment can be learnt from the following document:

http://stefan.agentfarms.net/Download/GNUstep/Documents/StepTalk-remote.pdf

Example is in Testing/Smalltalk/distant.st

Any patches, comments and questions are more than welcome. Feel free to
forward this email wherever you find it being appropriate.

Enjoy,

Stefan Urbanek
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