On Wed, Apr 30, 2014 at 5:01 PM, Sven Van Caekenberghe <s...@stfx.eu> wrote:
> Today is a great day ! > > I am really proud to be part of this community and thankful for the > contributions and hard work of so many people. > > This is a very important milestone while the future looks even brighter. > Very true. Thanks for everything. And the new site is very nice indeed. Phil > > Sven > > On 30 Apr 2014, at 16:01, Esteban Lorenzano <esteba...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > Dear World, > > > > Pharo 3.0 (http://www.pharo.org) is here. > > > > <pastedGraphic.png> > > > > The past year seemed short as we got busy building more than usual. Many > things have changed in Pharo. Here are the highlights: > > - The new modular Opal compiler is now the default compiler used in the > system. > > - The Athens vector graphics canvas is now integrated and it supports > Cairo rendering on all platforms. > > - Many tools have been rewritten using Spec, a new framework for > building user interfaces. > > - Versionner and Kommiter are two of the new development tools. > > - RPackage, a new package mechanism got enhanced with tags and is fully > integrated in the system. > > - The debugger model was rewritten to become modular, the inspector > received a bump to support multiple views, and the Nautilus code browser > supports tags, search and lot more improvements. > > - Morphic has seen many cleanings and improvements and the visual theme > has been revamped. > > > > These are just the more prominent highlights, but the details are just > as important. We have closed 2364 issues in Pharo 3 (compared with 1727 > issues in Pharo 2). Take a moment to go through a more detailed recount of > the progress: > > > > > https://github.com/pharo-project/ChangeLogs/blob/master/Pharo30ChangeLogs.md > > > > Pharo is improving on many fronts. Just take a look at the code city of > Pharo (built with Pharo for Pharo). Every building is a class, and the red > bricks represent the modified methods in Pharo 3. > > > > <pastedGraphic_1.png> > > > > Many things are changing but the system gets more stable. Moving from > Pharo 2 to Pharo 3 is almost a matter of just loading the code. > > > > Remember that Pharo is your platform. We thank all the contributors of > this release: Jean-Baptiste Arnaud, Simon Allier, Philippe Back, Clément > Bera, Alexandre Bergel, Torsten Bergmann, Usman Bhatti, Vincent Blondeau, > Noury Bouraqadi, Johan Brichau, Camillo Bruni, Sven Van Caekenberghe, > Damien Cassou, Nicolas Cellier, Guido Chari, Dimitris Chloupis, Bernardo > Contreras, Ben Coman, Gabriel Omar Cotelli, Jordi Delgado, Tommaso Del > Sasso, Gisela Decuzzi, Christophe Demarey, Sean DeNigris, Marcus Denker, > Martin Dias, Erwan Douaille, Stephane Ducasse, Stephan Eggermont, Pablo > Estefo, Luc Fabresse, Johan Fabry, Hilaire Fernandes, Nahuel Garbezza, Leo > Gassman, Lucas Giudice, Tudor Girba, Thierry Goubier, Norbert Hartl, Dale > Henrichs, Pablo Herrero, Nicolai Hess, Andre Hora, Alejandro Infante, > Ricardo Jacas, Henrik Sperre Johansen, Denis Kudryashov, Pavel Krivanek, > Juraj Kubelka, Laurent Laffont, Jannik Laval, Max Leske, David Lewis, Diego > Lont, Esteban Lorenzano, Stefan Marr, Mariano Martinez Peck, Roberto > Minelli, Hernan Morales Durand, Eliot Miranda, Fernando Olivero, Nicolas > Papagna Maldonado, Nick Papoylias, Nicolas Passerini, Vanessa Peña, Nicolas > Petton, Alain Plantec, Guillermo Polito, Damien Pollet, Jochen Rick, > Benjamin Van Ryseghem, Ronie Salgado, Camille Teruel, Juan Pablo Sandoval > Alcocer, Samir Saleh, Frank Shearar, Igor Stasenko, Aliaksei Syrel, > Sebastian Tleye, Yuriy Tymchuk, Andres Valloud, Martin Walk, Hernan > Wilkinson. > > And many many more who contributed indirectly, by reporting bugs, > participating in discussion threads, providing feedback... > > > > Pharo 3.0 is the largest step we took since we started. Yet, it’s just a > step. Expect more. Much more. > > > > Enjoy! > > The Pharo Team > > >
