Squeak World Tour

Note: A new official Swiki for Stable Squeak is being hosted by the Squeak Foundation at swiki.squeakfoundation.org/stablesqueak. This page will probably not be updated anymore.

People have been complaining that Squeak is not ready to be used for projects requiring a stable base. The Squeak World Tour will fix that! It is going to clean up the messiest parts of Squeak, to divide it into different projects so that you can just load the parts you want, and make it simpler and more reliable. The purpose of the Squeak World Tour (aka Stable Squeak project) is not to add features to Squeak, but to make it easier to add features to it.

We are currently developing the schedule for the Squeak World Tour. John Sarkela is the tour guide. He will decide which parts of the image will be cleaned up.

The start of the tour was at the Smalltalk Summer School in Southampton August 31 to September 4, 2000. If you are interested in helping organize a stop on the tour, please contact Ralph Johnson. We currently have interest in having the tour stop in Paris, Vancouver Island, and Chicago. After Southampton, it went to San Francisco on 2-5 November.

See All Events for the current list of Squeak World Tour (and Camp Smalltalk) scheduled events.

Here are results so far from the Squeak World Tour: Squeak World Tour Results.

News

- May 31, 2001: The new Swiki and home for Stable Squeak is at swiki.squeakfoundation.org/stablesqueak and the first official release has been made! Go there...

- May 30, 2001: A public mailing list for the Stable Squeak project was set up by the Squeak Foundation. See lists.squeakfoundation.org/listinfo/stablesqueak.

- May 20, 2001: G�ran Hultgren has written a first article describing the prerelease version of Stable Squeak (the Squeak World Tour image), with lots of pictures, and an interview with John Sarkela. See 195.43.243.112:8000/sqworld.1.

- February 22, 2001: An initial world tour package "XML UI Specs for Morphic and MVC" was posted to the Squeak List. See groups.yahoo.com/group/squeak/message/24995 for details. To download, see the Squeak Swiki page at minnow.cc.gatech.edu/squeak/xmlUiSpecBuilder.

Here are the pages where you can list of the small bug fixes you identified in Squeak but you never wanted to fix. Propositions for Improvements