Self-interest July 2010

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Building VM on AMD64
by isukin.intelliware 29 Jul '10

29 Jul '10

Hello! I have a question: are there any way of building the VM under x86_64 based Linux?

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Self 4.4 released
by Russell Allen 29 Jul '10

29 Jul '10

Dear all, I've decided to bite the bullet and release. Remaining issues have not been forgotten - this is hopefully the start of a more regular set of improvements to Self! Thanks to everyone who has helped with feedback and code and a special thank you to David Ungar! This is what I have posted to the Self blog: --------------- I would like to announce the release of version 4.4 of the Self environment. Self is a prototype-based dynamic object-oriented programming language, environment, and virtual machine centred around the principles of simplicity, uniformity, concreteness, and liveness. Self includes a programming language, a collection of objects defined in the Self language, and a programming environment built in Self for writing Self programs. The language and environment attempt to present objects to the programmer and user in as direct and physical a way as possible. The system uses the prototype-based style of object construction. Self is the canonical prototype based language within the Smalltalk family. It is open source under a BSD-like licence and includes a fast VM and a development environment built on the original Morphic GUI that Squeak's Morphic is a descendent of. Changes in release 4.4 include: - an improved Quartz based backend for the MacOS X version and - a working port of Self to Linux (x86); - various bug fixes and general improvements. You can download Self from the website at http://selflanguage.org/ in binary form and all sources are available either by running Self or at http://github.com/russellallen/self/ Documentation includes the Self Handbook at http://docs.selflanguage.org and a large number of published papers on Self athttp://selflanguage.org/documentation/published/ You can keep up to date with Self by following either the Self blog at http://blog.selflanguage.org or joining the Self mailing list - details at http://selflanguage.org/discuss/ and archive at http://forum.selflanguage.org ------------------ Yours selfishly, Russell

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Self 4.4 RC 1
by Russell Allen 08 Jul '10

08 Jul '10

Hi all, It's been a long time since the release of 4.3 of Self. I was hoping that 4.4 would be out of the way quickly, as a stepping stone towards getting Self really moving. It took longer than I wanted, and I think we're at the point where we should bite the bullet and release. I've uploaded a release candidate to the website. The VM is the same build as we've been using in the betas. The snapshot was built from the latest source on Github. http://selflanguage.org/download Unless it's catastrophic, any remaining issues will be noted and added to the bug tracker for version 4.5. The aim is to rebadge this release as 4.4 in about a week or so. We should have a conversation soon about what the future of Self should look like. In particular I'd love to hear from anyone who wants to help out - or just scratch their own itch. Cheers, Russell

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Self 4.4 Beta 6 - Hope spring eternal (keyboard-wise)
by Russell Allen 07 Jul '10

07 Jul '10

Hi guys, I was submerged by work for a bit there but have crawled out and made another attempt at fixing the Linux keyboard issue. This time, the code correctly uses X keysym values to determine arrow key presses etc. Can the Linux people try: http://selflanguage.org/files/releases/4.4/beta4/Clean-4.4.beta6.snap and let me know if it works for them. Keys should type their correct character, and the cursor keys should work. Cheers, Russell

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Self-interest July 2010