Re: [Help-smalltalk] GNU Smalltalk 3.3 development opened

[Gwenaël Casaccio]

Hi Paolo,

Great news ;-)

Could I add some ideas:

- moving from VisualGST to GST package/namespace/class/method fileout;

- moving some Gtk improvments  (GtkMainwindow/Model/...) from
VisualGST to a gtk-tools package;

- Again improving VisualGST ;-)

Possible stuffs:

- Class builder to continue my shape refactoring (not the most
important part but it's a nice refactoring);

- Add a new shape: large oop (b-tree);

- string cow;

- add comp.c optimizations to STInST compiler;

- Remote Smalltalk;

Another one : today I've worked on the STInSt package (to support the
environment) and though why can't I do that
in VisualGST : this is dangerous if I break it I could break VisualGST
that uses it. This is just like a neuro-surgeon that operates it self
^^.
Something like copying or versionned namespaces could be nice.

(And in my dream fixing the JIT ;-) which by the way works in 32 bits
but all the tests are not green )

Cheers,
Gwen

On Sat, Jan 15, 2011 at 4:18 PM, Paolo Bonzini <address@hidden> wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> branches master and stable-3.2 are not anymore proceeding in parallel in my
> git repository.
>
> In particular, the master branch already has the following changes:
>
> - GLib/GObject bindings are now separate from the GTK bindings
>
> - a new shared library is installed, libgst-gobject.so, containing the
> common functionality shared by the GLib and GTK bindings.  The ABI of this
> library will be stable, but only after 3.3 is released.
>
> - GObject-Introspection bindings are included in the GObject-Introspection
> package.
>
>
> Focus for 3.3 will be on improving bindings, possibly using the
> GObject-Introspection support (which may become mandatory before the
> release, depending on when/whether libgirepository gets into Fedora). This
> could be the code that Denis is working on or something completely
> different.  Time will tell!  It may or may not be backwards-compatible with
> the existing GTK bindings, though I hope search-and-replace will be enough
> to reconcile the differences.
>
> Other possible changes will be:
>
> - deprecating the <library> tag in the package description and replacing it
> with, well, something else;
>
> - deprecating Namespace>>#current: to improve thread-safety of file-ins
> (suggested by Gwen);
>
> - miscellaneous VisualGST improvements;
>
> - other bindings, including the mythical GnuTLS support;
>
> - support for non-Unix platforms, including the mythical support for Windows
> sockets and the also mythical MacOS X installer.
>
> - inclusion of Seaside 3.0.x.
>
> GNU Smalltalk 3.2.4 will be released later this month.
>
> Paolo
>
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