jorice@maths.tcd.ie (Jonathan Rice) (02/04/91)
I don't mean to sound pushy or anything, but what on earth has happened to GNU Smalltalk? Version 1 was released I guess 6 months ago and since then there's been practically NO discussion of it here. What gives? I know it was a bit basic, but fundamentally it seemed like a good system. It just needed a bit of work. Can a GNU person tell me what is the state of play of the development of this system at the moment? I hope it hasn't stalled. o----------------------o---------------------------o--------------------------o | Jonathan Rice | Email: jorice@cs.tcd.ie | He was a common fly | |----------------------| Tel: 353.1.772941 x2156(w)| With a taste for fashion | |Computer Science Dept.| 353.1.6245415 (h)| They were thrown together| | Trinity College | Fax: 353.1.772204 | In a heat of passion | | Dublin 2, | woof /\___/ | - "Human Fly", | | Ireland. | /| |\ | The Horseflies | o----------------------o---------------------------o--------------------------o
sbb@laplace.eng.sun.com (Steve Byrne) (02/05/91)
GNU Smalltalk is making progress towards version 1.2. I'm taking a little break from working on it to participate in a contest for writing NeWS applications (yeah, yeah, I know, but I kind of like the NeWS model...it's surprisingly Smalltalk-like in many ways). I'm looking at about a month's work after I get done with the NeWS application, so that puts the next release date at the end of March or early April. After that, I'll probably produce a bug-fix release (if necessary :-) before working on 2.0 (which will have the whizzy compiler). 1.2 features include a complete X protocol interface (and maybe some higher level interfaces), performance improvements (I'm getting > 200k bytecodes/sec for very simple code, and > 100K for typical code), C call-ins, ability to directly create and manipulate C structs from Smalltalk, an improved Emacs editing mode, including a class browser, support for large integers, a port to VMS, etc. Steve