excellent!!!! On Thu, Apr 19, 2012 at 10:37 AM, Marcus Denker <marcus.denker@inria.fr>wrote:

Hi,

We need an announce mail / new ticker entry. Any quick improvements / typo fixes?

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We are proud to announce the release of 1.4 of Pharo!

You can find information about Pharo on http://www.pharo-project.org. In particular, you may be interested in: - How to join us and get help: http://www.pharo-project.org/community - Getting the Pharo By Example book (also available as a free PDF): http://www.pharobyexample.org - Watching the screencasts: http://www.pharocasts.com - Reporting problems: http://www.pharo-project.org/community/issue-tracking - Read the new forth coming book: http://rmod.lille.inria.fr/pbe2(yes we love and value documentation) - Read the Pharo vision document: (PDF): http://bit.ly/HNkEru

About this release ---------------

All in all, there were over 860 issues treated in the issue tracker.

http://code.google.com/p/pharo/issues/list?can=1&q=milestone%3D1.4

Read it again, yes 860 is huge, take two minutes and have a look at the list of improvements! Now you got the feel of the effort. And this not our own work but the work of our community! It is possible because people worldwide helped! We want to deeply thank them.

We want to thank in particular INRIA for its constant support, in particular for the salary of Igor Stasenko and for help in the infrastructure put in place.

We have accomplished this huge task for a better system because we were together. Do not forget that we are working on a consortium to support our system. Do not forget that our goal is to build a system so that we can make a living with our creativity and programming skills.

Read the Pharo vision document and join!

Thanks ***a lot*** for your participation, energy and fun.

The Pharo Team

Some Items of 1.4 ---------------- Not all the changes are reported here, but this is to give you an impression.

Changes

- New code model: Ring - Support for startUp preference script - #class message is not a byte code anymore - Better union and intersection methods - Better primitive simulation - Better headless support - Better support for error at startup - Introduction of FileSystem - Less dependencies: Color, Scrollbar do not depend on Compiler anymore - Cleaning tests - Unload hostSystemsMenus - More consistent API for browser opening - No event pulling anymore - More class comments - Announcement driven system notification - Better API for sharedPool

Zinc Improvement

- New mechanism for Zinc servers start/stop handling after system startUp/shutDown - and a lot a lot and a lot more.

Tools

- Support Cherrypicking when merging - Better timeProfilerBrowser - Better MC commit error - MC handles better dependencies - Better Debugger - Better Inspector - Search in tools - New Finder tool - Cmd-Click for senders and implementors - Senders and implementors deals with class - Better tool registry - Improvements for the FlatBrowser - Better Transcripter - Faster diffBuilder - MetacelloConfigurationBrowser to browse published configurations - New version of OCompletion and Ecompletion that can play together and without code duplication.

UI

- Support grouping windows as tab - Better search - MultiSelection improvements - Drag and drop in multi selection list - PluggableListMorph improvements - PluggableListMorph selection on drag - Iconic Button improvements - PharoTheme - Better CheckBox - Enhanced PluggableButtonMorph - Polymorph enhancements - Deprecate PluggableListMorphOfMany - Merged NewParagraph and MultiNewParagraph - New Widget: Ticking list and widget - LazyListMorph cleaning - NewTextMorph and TextComposer improvements - Improve behavior of MorphTreeMorph - Removing NewTextMorph and related - StringMorph

Cleaning

- Object - Old HTTP code - No references to Utilities - Removed toolbuilder - Restructure packages - Canvas hierarchy - MorphicModel - Deprecate recentMessageSet - Deprecate ImageSegment - Deprecate MessageNames - Deprecate TimeProfileBrowser - Really cleaning messageSet and subclasses - SystemChangeNotifier - Removed Project - Removed BlockContext , blue book old closure encodings - Font downloading - HandMorph cleaning

Some Fixes

- Set growth with nil - Better weak finalization - isPrime fixed - Compiler Fixes - Russian characters in editor - More class comments - Fix drawing shadow morphs - Trait support - Fixed syntax hilighting - Better pointersTo: - Speedup MethodDictionary #rehash - Compiler enhancements. - Stream should not print its contents - Progress bar - InputSensor - CombinedChar - BytexTextConverter fixes

-- Marcus Denker -- http://marcusdenker.de

-- Mariano http://marianopeck.wordpress.com

With - NewTextMorph and TextComposer improvements - Removing NewTextMorph and related It would be better to say; - Removing NewTextMorph and related - TextMorph and TextComposer improvements And - Merged NewParagraph and MultiNewParagraph into Paragraph (I may be wrong about that but noticed that there was now a single Paragraph class) Philippe 2012/4/19 Marcus Denker <marcus.denker@inria.fr>

Hi,

We need an announce mail / new ticker entry. Any quick improvements / typo fixes?

===========================================================================================

We are proud to announce the release of 1.4 of Pharo!

You can find information about Pharo on http://www.pharo-project.org. In particular, you may be interested in: - How to join us and get help: http://www.pharo-project.org/community - Getting the Pharo By Example book (also available as a free PDF): http://www.pharobyexample.org - Watching the screencasts: http://www.pharocasts.com - Reporting problems: http://www.pharo-project.org/community/issue-tracking - Read the new forth coming book: http://rmod.lille.inria.fr/pbe2(yes we love and value documentation) - Read the Pharo vision document: (PDF): http://bit.ly/HNkEru

About this release ---------------

All in all, there were over 860 issues treated in the issue tracker.

http://code.google.com/p/pharo/issues/list?can=1&q=milestone%3D1.4

Read it again, yes 860 is huge, take two minutes and have a look at the list of improvements! Now you got the feel of the effort. And this not our own work but the work of our community! It is possible because people worldwide helped! We want to deeply thank them.

We want to thank in particular INRIA for its constant support, in particular for the salary of Igor Stasenko and for help in the infrastructure put in place.

We have accomplished this huge task for a better system because we were together. Do not forget that we are working on a consortium to support our system. Do not forget that our goal is to build a system so that we can make a living with our creativity and programming skills.

Read the Pharo vision document and join!

Thanks ***a lot*** for your participation, energy and fun.

The Pharo Team

Some Items of 1.4 ---------------- Not all the changes are reported here, but this is to give you an impression.

Changes

- New code model: Ring - Support for startUp preference script - #class message is not a byte code anymore - Better union and intersection methods - Better primitive simulation - Better headless support - Better support for error at startup - Introduction of FileSystem - Less dependencies: Color, Scrollbar do not depend on Compiler anymore - Cleaning tests - Unload hostSystemsMenus - More consistent API for browser opening - No event pulling anymore - More class comments - Announcement driven system notification - Better API for sharedPool

Zinc Improvement

- New mechanism for Zinc servers start/stop handling after system startUp/shutDown - and a lot a lot and a lot more.

Tools

- Support Cherrypicking when merging - Better timeProfilerBrowser - Better MC commit error - MC handles better dependencies - Better Debugger - Better Inspector - Search in tools - New Finder tool - Cmd-Click for senders and implementors - Senders and implementors deals with class - Better tool registry - Improvements for the FlatBrowser - Better Transcripter - Faster diffBuilder - MetacelloConfigurationBrowser to browse published configurations - New version of OCompletion and Ecompletion that can play together and without code duplication.

UI

- Support grouping windows as tab - Better search - MultiSelection improvements - Drag and drop in multi selection list - PluggableListMorph improvements - PluggableListMorph selection on drag - Iconic Button improvements - PharoTheme - Better CheckBox - Enhanced PluggableButtonMorph - Polymorph enhancements - Deprecate PluggableListMorphOfMany - Merged NewParagraph and MultiNewParagraph - New Widget: Ticking list and widget - LazyListMorph cleaning - NewTextMorph and TextComposer improvements - Improve behavior of MorphTreeMorph - Removing NewTextMorph and related - StringMorph

Cleaning

- Object - Old HTTP code - No references to Utilities - Removed toolbuilder - Restructure packages - Canvas hierarchy - MorphicModel - Deprecate recentMessageSet - Deprecate ImageSegment - Deprecate MessageNames - Deprecate TimeProfileBrowser - Really cleaning messageSet and subclasses - SystemChangeNotifier - Removed Project - Removed BlockContext , blue book old closure encodings - Font downloading - HandMorph cleaning

Some Fixes

- Set growth with nil - Better weak finalization - isPrime fixed - Compiler Fixes - Russian characters in editor - More class comments - Fix drawing shadow morphs - Trait support - Fixed syntax hilighting - Better pointersTo: - Speedup MethodDictionary #rehash - Compiler enhancements. - Stream should not print its contents - Progress bar - InputSensor - CombinedChar - BytexTextConverter fixes

-- Marcus Denker -- http://marcusdenker.de

-- Philippe Back "Helping you hit the top 3 outcomes you really want to achieve" Mob: +32(0) 478 650 140 | Fax: +32 (0) 70 408 027 Mail: phil@highoctane.be| Web: http://philippeback.eu | Blog: http://philippeback.be High Octane SPRL rue cour Boisacq 101 1301 Bierges

Marcus Denker-4 wrote

We need an announce mail / new ticker entry. Any quick improvements / typo fixes?

Awesome job!!! Wow, so many changes. I've been using FS in 1.3 and that alone would be *huge* A few fixes: * "release of 1.4 of Pharo" sounds weird; I'd say "release of Pharo version 1.4" * "Read the new forth coming book" -> "Reading the new forthcoming book" - should be "reading", like the other bullets - forthcoming is one word * "Read the Pharo vision document" -> "Reading the Pharo vision document" - should be "reading", like the other bullets * "Now you got the feel of the effort" -> "Now you've got the feel of the effort" * "in particular for the salary of Igor Stasenko" -> "especially for the salary of Igor Stasenko" - the phrase "in particular was used twice in that line * "and for help in the infrastructure put in place" -> "and for helping to put the infrastructure in place" * "No event pulling anymore"... should be polling? * "and a lot a lot and a lot more" -> "and a lot, lot more" As exciting as this is, two "lot"s is probably enough :) * "MC handles better dependencies" -> "MC handles dependencies better" * "New version of OCompletion... duplication." Remove period like other bullets * "MultiSelection improvements" & "Drag and drop in multi selection list" -> "Multi-selection improvements" & "Drag and drop in multi-selection list" (write "multi-selection" uniformly) * "Merged NewParagraph and MultiNewParagraph" Remove extra space after "NewParagraph" * "LazyListMorph cleaning" Remove extra space * "NewTextMorph and TextComposer improvements" Remove 2 extra spaces * "Removing NewTextMorph and related" Remove extra space * "Removed BlockContext , blue book old closure encodings" Remove spec before comma * "Speedup MethodDictionary #rehash" Remove extra space * Remove "More class comments" from "Fixes" list. It's already listed under "Changes" -- View this message in context: http://forum.world.st/DRAFT-Announce-mail-news-entry-tp4570244p4571103.html Sent from the Pharo Smalltalk mailing list archive at Nabble.com.