[self-interest] [Ann] Self 4.4 Beta 1

[Hernan Wilkinson]

Hi Russell
 this is great! we have been using and showing self for more than a decade
now at the University of Buenos Aires and seeing this progress is great...
also, having the Smalltalk implementation in the Demo.snap is wonderful for
teaching, those are the things that blows student minds!
 BTW, in my Linux machine, the keyboard is not working... I have Ubuntu 9.10
64 bits. For example, in an outliner of the Shell, if I press some letters
nothing happens, if I press s, it saves an snapshot, if I press n, it show
"senders of nothing"...., it sounds it is not taking focus, is this a known
bug or should I configure something to make it work correctly?

On Tue, Mar 9, 2010 at 11:05 PM, Russell Allen <mail at russell-allen.com>wrote:

>
>
> 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.comand 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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