Squeak 4.5

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Squeak 4.5

Last updated at 8:20 am UTC on 4 February 2013

Put your requests for what you want in 4.5 here:

Features

Environments
CI: Infrastructure to support running tests on many platforms, without requiring deploying full-time build agents in the umpteen platforms we support (Jenkins might be able to help for most things: it supports distributed builds where slaves connect to a master, letting people run slaves behind NATs.)
CI: Infrastructure to support running "community supported packages" test suites
CI: jobs for the major platforms: ARM, ...
CI: job taking latest trunk image from the first item above and loading in certain well-known packages - Metacello, Gofer, Seaside, XTreams, PetitParser, Fuel, ... - and running their test suites
CI: job testing unloading of well-known packages
Investigate Pharo's interaction with the command prompt: headless UIManager, command line API, etc. Port/import if it's nice!
Integrate Gezira graphics into squeak and investigate transitioning morphic to use it. Crisp, anti-aliased graphics for all!

Fixes

Fix the problem of code being truncated by the right-side of the window.
Fix the in-image SqueakMap tools
Fix (or rewrite) SqueakMap's server
CI: After updating the image, print out the version number (done), and (if possible) the last changes. Ideally we'd have a diff against the last version, and convince Jenkins to display that in its changes page.
CI: Remove the statefulness of the InterpreterVM and CogVM builds' workspaces
Fix the Smalltalk #appendChangesTo: so we can have a fresh sources file with each Squeak release
Create: SqueakV45.sources
Replace the OmniBrowser load script from "Extending the System" with "Installer sm install: 'OmniBrowser(NNN)'" where NNN is a release number we don't yet know.

Cleanups

Remove senders of #isThisEverCalled.
Factoring out release-specific info from Morphic: right now, releasing a new Squeak version means bumping the Morphic version.
Refactor Preferences, so we don't have a huge global store of preferences, without losing preferences that are valuable to community members.
Tackle the growing list of unimplemented calls (lists.squeakfoundation.org/pipermail/squeak-dev/2012-December/166927.html bugs.squeak.org/view.php?id=7483 bugs.squeak.org/view.php?id=7481 bugs.squeak.org/view.php?id=7042 bugs.squeak.org/view.php?id=4544)

Preference Changes

traceMessages on
mouseOverForKeyboardFocus on!
TextEditor autoEnclose on, autoIndent off, selectionsMayShrink off, destructiveBackword off.
General: useLocale enabled. The local timezone will be set at startup.
Browsing: list classes hierarchically.
Colors: use new color picker.
Halos: alternateHandlesLook enabled. This give the halos a 3D look.
Morphic: generalizeYellowButtonMenu disabled. This enables the personalized menu.

Release process artifacts

Produce new alpha images (put in ftp.squeak.org's 4.5alpha directory)
Selecting and setting the desktop background
new update stream
- Copy packages to new update stream (ReleaseBuilder >> #transferCurrentPackagesAsUser:password:)
- Create an update.whoever-1.mcm (but see bugs.squeak.org/view.php?id=7717)
Release notes
SqueakMap tag
Mantis tag
Release candidate images (put in ftp.squeak.org's 4.5 directory)
Sources to ftp site (/var/www/files/4.5/) (Includes Squeak45.sources.gz)
VMs to ftp site (in blah/4.5/mac/, blah/4.5/unix-linux/, blah/4.5/win/)
All-in-One release to the ftp site
any updating to Trunk to move it to 4.6-alpha
update /var/www/files/current_stable and current_development symlinks

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