[Ann] Self 4.4 Beta 1

[Russell Allen]

Hi guys,

I've released Self 4.4 Beta 1.

Download VM installers for MacOS X and Linux and Clean and Demo snapshots from: http://selflanguage.org/download/

Barring minor fixes, I will reissue this release as Self 4.4 at the start of April.  The proper description of Self 4.4 is a revived Self running on Mac OS X and Linux x86 and ready as a base for new functionality.

Self 4.4 will be the first Self release since Self 4.3 which was released in June 2006.  In future we will attempt a slightly faster turnaround :)

Please post bugs to the Self bugtracker at http://self.lighthouseapp.com and to this mailing list.

Cheers,

Russell

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Since Alpha 2 we have changed (this is a quick dump from commit messages):
Changes to SelfDroplet to ensure proper registration of filetype 
Minor changes to website 
Fix for bug ticket #3 - Compressed snapshots now work on Linux 
Fix to UI1 text editing and small improvement to error handling
Fix for bug ticket #2 - Self will now compile on Ubuntu
Fix for bug ticket #1 - Linux: Display will now reopen after saving world in new snapshot
Added -Wno-write-strings flag to GCC compile 
Initial copy of Self Handbook (incorporates existing manuals in RST for Sphinx) 
Changes for Snow Leopard 
Add a nice icon for the Dock in MacOS X 
Removed some binaries from the git repository, split sortedList out of the list module. 
Fix colorsFor: in 'traits ui2Image' to account for mapped or unmapped 
Add PNG support and fix JPG/GIF support in webBrowser 
Changed flag to be "-headless" to start image without ui2 
Added Chris Double as an AUTHOR 
Make webBrowser send Host: header 
Add linux build files to .gitignore 
Set the module for linux socketConstants 
Added value:With:With:With:With:With:With:. 
Get builds working under Arch Linux 
Add a socketConstants slot for os_file under linux 
Fix sockets under Linux 
Clarification of copyright AUTHORS to include Sun and Stanford University 
Split mirrorProgramming from mirror, so that Klein won't need to file it in. 
Added blockTests.self. 
Clean up and clarification of copyright terms 
Source tree cleanup 
Fixes to UI1 
Starting to refactor the tests to make it easier to use them in Klein. 
Also refactored the slotFinder to be iterative instead of recursive. 
Made the javaServer stuff file in OK (sort of, I think). It still needs to be filed in from the terminal, without the Self desktop running. 
Updated website to Sphinx 0.6.1 and added links to blog 
Fixed a typo in some comments, added max: and min: methods to the ordered mixin. 


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