Thanks for the roadmap. I am particularly excited about the underlying improvements, such as VM, TaskIT and TFFI, that might capture less headlines.
About TaskIT, are these: > • Implement a prototype of a distributed backend to execute tasks. > • Implement a communication layer using Rabbit MQ > • Implement the first version of a process manager for handling > multiples images and workers. already available? Cheers, Doru > On Oct 7, 2019, at 4:02 PM, Esteban Lorenzano <esteba...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > Hi all, > > Since some time we wanted to start with this report to keep you all informed > on what we are doing to achieve our goals for the release. > After ESUG we took some time to organise and we managed to put this in > movement. > The idea is to post one the first week of each month (but it may vary, as you > see with this one who came a bit later :P) > > Actions reportes are just dots, since we do not have the time to add a big > explanation and we hope you are already involved and more or less know what > we are talking about. > But do not hesitate to ask if you want more details :) > > Roadmap progress report. > September 2019 > > > Image > > Code Loading > • Profiling the time spent to load code > • Reimplementing a better Read/Write Buffered Stream > • Improving the performance of Source writing and reading, > • Improving in at least 20% the time of loading code using Metacello. > > Spec 2 > • Pass on SpMillerColumnPresenter to made it of general use. > • Implement a specific SpMillerLayout to handle Miller columns. > • Pass on regular input ports (transmissions subsystem) to implement > activation ports. > • Pass on SpStyle subsystem (kind of STON based stylesheets for > Morphic). > • Fix SpGridLayout horizontal cell calculous. (It was broken). > • Fix SpBoxLayout berderWith and padding. (It was broken). > • Added contextual menus to widgets. > • This functionality was completely revamped to make it work in > all backends. > • It was generalised to all widgets (even if not all should use > it!) > • Added focus order to presenters. > • This is also a full revamp of old existing functionality. > • it accepts you to change the default order, but it has a > default order (previous implementations forced you to do the focusing by > hand). > • Added key binding support for all widgets. > • This is also a full revamp of old exiting functionality. > > Spec2+GTK3 > • callbacks can now be chained. This requires some explanation: In Gtk3 > you connect to signals. And you can connect just one callback to one signal. > Thankfully we control the callbacks in our side, so we modified signal > callbacks to accept to chain other callbacks (then we can connect several > actions to one single event, for example "keypress" or “hide"). > • along with this, we reworked the callback hierarchy. > • implemented inheritance in Pharo of Gtk3 objects and interfaces (this > is needed to enhance control of tables and many others). > • added autocompletion capabilities to SpCodePresenter. > • added a mechanism to avoid duplicate signalling between the backend > and the adaptors. > • Fix an important leak on GtkFormView. > > NewTools > • Inspector > • it now implements Miller columns > • Using TaskIt as backend for stepping. > • extensions migrated (we are at 10% of the total of migrations > needed, we will enhance this in iterative way). > • Debugger > • Almost complete revamp of UI. > • Fix context updating (to allow commands to actually work) > • Integrate new inspector. > • Work on new layouts for debugger > • Make an experimental tool: "playbook", to concentrate playgrounds and > test some UI ideas. > > UFFI > • Adding Tests > • Support for kind of literals and support type definitions in literals > • Documentation > • Measuring performance issues on large images. > > TaskIT > • Implement a prototype of a distributed backend to execute tasks. > • Implement a communication layer using Rabbit MQ > • Implement the first version of a process manager for handling > multiples images and workers. > > VM > • Fixing problem with LibGIT and Windows 1903. > • Fixing the performance issues of Windows 1903 with File accesses when > using solid-state 4k physical sector disks. > • XCode integration > • Adding an initial version to detect invalid order in the return from > concurrent callbacks. > • Improving the implementation of TFFI to run 50% faster in callouts. > • Build of StackVM > -- feenk.com "Some battles are better lost than fought."
