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

[Hernan Wilkinson]

Yes, no problem.
It is 64 bit, keyboard Spanish or LatinAmerican (either does not work)
It happened the three times I run it, but I did not try to reboot, I'll let
you know about it

Thanks!

On Wed, Mar 10, 2010 at 10:02 AM, Russell Allen <mail at russell-allen.com>wrote:

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> It sounds like the same problem, doesn't it!
>
> We should try to fix this, because Gnome on Ubuntu 9.10 is a really common
> setup...
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> Let's try some triage - from your emails it seems as if the problem occurs
> on:
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> - Ubuntu 9.10
> - on Gnome not KDE
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> Can you and Hernan let me know:
>
> - are you on 32 or 64bit
> - what is your keyboard layout (ie US or something else?)
> - does it always happen?
> - does rebooting help?
>
> Unfortunately, it's a bit hard to fix until I can reproduce it myself.
>
> Cheers, Russell
>
>
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>  On 11/03/2010, at 2:19 AM, Liam2 wrote:
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>   I had the same problem too. If you log in to KDE instead (or anything
> but GNOME) it works fine.
>
> Liam
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> --- On *Wed, 10/3/10, Hernan Wilkinson <hernan.wilkinson at gmail.com>*wrote:
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> From: Hernan Wilkinson <hernan.wilkinson at gmail.com>
> Subject: Re: [self-interest] [Ann] Self 4.4 Beta 1
> To: self-interest at yahoogroups.com
> Date: Wednesday, 10 March, 2010, 11:33
>
>
>
> 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:
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>> 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/<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 <http://self.lighthouseapp.com/> and to this mailing list.
>>
>> Cheers,
>>
>> Russell
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>> ------------ --------
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>> Since Alpha 2 we have changed (this is a quick dump from commit messages):
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>>    - 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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