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 <tinchodias@gmail.com> 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)