Re: [Help-smalltalk] GNU Smalltalk 3.2.1 released

[Dmitry Matveev]

Good news!

Thanks to you Paulo and to everyone involved in this release.

Regards,
Dmitry

2010/7/25, Paolo Bonzini <address@hidden>:
> GNU Smalltalk 3.2.1 has been released at
>
>      * ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/smalltalk/smalltalk-3.2.1.tar.gz
>        SHA1 checksum: 98c97b77eb32972aa5dfa2ab4a76502d858ce7c4
>      * ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/smalltalk/smalltalk-3.2.1.tar.xz
>        SHA1 checksum: 285049def8b3e3aa1824510e141b4e0edbababe6
>
> This is mostly a bugfix release, though it does have a few visible changes.
>
> Bug fixes:
>
> * All built-in packages can be disabled with a configure option like
> --disable-gdbm or --disable-complex.
>
> * Fixed bugs in the distributed gnu-smalltalk.pc file.
>
> * Improved portability to Solaris.
>
> * Many bug fixes to UDP sockets. In particular, datagrams received from
> a socket can be placed directly onto another socket using #nextPut:.
>
> * Each test in the testsuite has a 1-minute timeout.
>
> Other changes:
>
> * All tools support --verbose.
>
> * Many improvements and bugfixes to VisualGST.
>
> * The undocumented DynamicVariable class in GNU Smalltalk 3.2 is now
> documented, but with a small change in the implementation. The
> #defaultValue class method is not present anymore, and is replaced by
> #valueIfAbsent:. Subclasses can override #value to obtain the effect of
> #defaultValue. The class has also been rewritten and is much faster now.
>
> Thanks to everyone who tested this release and its predecessor,
> especially (in alphabetic order) Gwenael Casaccio, Rick Flower, Holger
> Freyther, and the Sebastien Audier/Nicolas Petton duo.
>
> Paolo
>
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