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. 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
