[#285488] Zed Shaw - Ruby has dodged a bullet — Chuck Remes <cremes.devlist@...>

Much like watching a car accident in slow motion, I could scarcely

96 messages 2008/01/01

[#285678] Windows Compilation Madness — Gary Wright <gwtmp01@...>

No point in keeping this discussion in the Zed thread...

24 messages 2008/01/02

[#285742] change the symbol in an interpolated string value? — scooterm@...

PROBLEM:

11 messages 2008/01/03

[#285784] Ruby install on Kubuntu Linux - why so spread out — Tom Cloyd <tc@...>

I've migrated from WinXP in recent days, and I'm having trouble getting

19 messages 2008/01/03
[#285786] Re: Ruby install on Kubuntu Linux - why so spread out — Casimir <pikEISPAMMMseli@...> 2008/01/03

Tom Cloyd kirjoitti:

[#285792] Re: Ruby install on Kubuntu Linux - why so spread out — Peter Hickman <peter@...> 2008/01/03

Casimir I'm going to have to call you on this. As you may have just

[#285838] "wrong number of arguments" What? I must be thick or somethi — ole __ <oliver.saunders@...>

class PermutationIterator

10 messages 2008/01/03

[#285873] Time.gm(1969) chokes on Windows — Tim Ferrell <s0nspark@...>

18 messages 2008/01/03

[#285910] Get your hands dirty: Help bootstrap Ruby on Windows. — Luis Lavena <luislavena@...>

This was asked, and asked, and asked too many times, so here we go.

20 messages 2008/01/03

[#285951] Finding if an array contains a data type — Sam Phoneix <dominicjefferies@...>

Say I wanted to see if an array contained a number or not. Would I use

11 messages 2008/01/04

[#285981] How to put a Ruby website online without rails — Softmind Technology <softmindtechnology@...>

Hi,

28 messages 2008/01/04
[#286230] Re: How to put a Ruby website online without rails — James Britt <james.britt@...> 2008/01/05

Giles Bowkett wrote:

[#286252] Re: How to put a Ruby website online without rails — yudi <yudi.xue@...> 2008/01/05

Ramaze looks good, gotta take a look. Thanks :-)

[#286449] Re: How to put a Ruby website online without rails — James Dinkel <jdinkel@...> 2008/01/07

Here is a forum post that tells you how to embed ruby script into

[#285988] problem with sockets — ian@...

Hi

13 messages 2008/01/04

[#286012] Studying Blackjack (#151) — Ruby Quiz <james@...>

The three rules of Ruby Quiz:

42 messages 2008/01/04

[#286056] Re: zed shaw zed shaw zed shaw — "Rick DeNatale" <rick.denatale@...>

On Jan 4, 2008 11:52 AM, Jeremy McAnally <jeremymcanally@gmail.com> wrote:

16 messages 2008/01/04

[#286077] DBI doesn't seem to install correctly on CentOS — Xeno Campanoli <xcampanoli@...>

I tried installing with the old tarfile sequence using setup.rb, as I

14 messages 2008/01/04
[#286079] Re: DBI doesn't seem to install correctly on CentOS — Joshua Schairbaum <joshua.schairbaum@...> 2008/01/04

Try this to use DBI with MySQL:

[#286120] Best Ruby book for experienced programmer — Kamil Chmielewski <kamilski81@...>

Hello,

19 messages 2008/01/04

[#286221] Vintage 0.0.1 - The super slim, micro web framework based on the idea of the old Merb — "Jeremy McAnally" <jeremymcanally@...>

Vintage is a very small web framework based on the original idea of

23 messages 2008/01/05
[#286346] Re: [ANN] Vintage 0.0.1 - The super slim, micro web framework based on the idea of the old Merb — "ara.t.howard" <ara.t.howard@...> 2008/01/06

[#286273] Marshal Pipe — "Carlos J. Hernandez" <carlosjhr64@...>

I've just re-discovered pipes.

16 messages 2008/01/05
[#286515] Re: Marshal Pipe — Eric Hodel <drbrain@...7.net> 2008/01/07

On Jan 5, 2008, at 15:37 PM, Carlos J. Hernandez wrote:

[#286374] DateTime new_offset unexpected results — Greg Go <plant@...>

Hello, everybody:

13 messages 2008/01/06
[#286484] Re: DateTime new_offset unexpected results — "Todd Benson" <caduceass@...> 2008/01/07

On Jan 6, 2008 2:04 PM, Greg Go <plant@ultraspace.com> wrote:

[#286375] Ruby's Kernel::exec (and system and %x) — JJ <jjnoakes@...>

I was reading about Kernel::exec (and the related Kernel::system

29 messages 2008/01/06

[#286473] Where do I put the ".to_f" ? — Peter Bailey <pbailey@...>

Hello,

13 messages 2008/01/07

[#286493] Bacon 0.9, a small RSpec clone — Christian Neukirchen <chneukirchen@...>

Hello,

13 messages 2008/01/07

[#286508] Embedding 1.9 — Dave Thomas <dave@...>

Folks:

18 messages 2008/01/07

[#286558] Thin 0.5.1 LOLCAT released — Marc-andre Marc <macournoyer@...>

Hey all,

13 messages 2008/01/08

[#286656] JRuby 1.1 RC 1 Released — Thomas Enebo <Thomas.Enebo@...>

The JRuby community is pleased to announce the release of JRuby 1.1 RC 1

19 messages 2008/01/08
[#286710] Re: [ANN] JRuby 1.1 RC 1 Released — "Sander Land" <sander.land@...> 2008/01/08

With all the blog posts about JRuby being posted, I thought I would

[#286696] dow ruby's strftime not attempt POSIX-compliance? — Jochen Hayek <jochen+ruby-forum@...>

Why is ruby's core class Time acting like this:

21 messages 2008/01/08
[#286701] Re: dow ruby's strftime not attempt POSIX-compliance? — Suraj Kurapati <snk@...> 2008/01/08

Jochen Hayek wrote:

[#286702] Re: dow ruby's strftime not attempt POSIX-compliance? — Suraj Kurapati <snk@...> 2008/01/08

Suraj Kurapati wrote:

[#286717] Re: does ruby's strftime not attempt POSIX-compliance? — Jochen Hayek <jochen+ruby-forum@...> 2008/01/09

Suraj Kurapati wrote:

[#287161] Re: does ruby's strftime not attempt POSIX-compliance? — Suraj Kurapati <snk@...> 2008/01/12

Jochen Hayek wrote:

[#287217] Re: does ruby's strftime not attempt POSIX-compliance? — Jochen Hayek <jochen+ruby-forum@...> 2008/01/12

Pls let me assure you in the beginning of this note,

[#287219] Re: does ruby's strftime not attempt POSIX-compliance? — Suraj Kurapati <snk@...> 2008/01/12

Jochen Hayek wrote:

[#287344] Re: does ruby's strftime not attempt POSIX-compliance? — Yukihiro Matsumoto <matz@...> 2008/01/14

Hi,

[#286742] why does this code leak? — ara howard <ara.t.howard@...>

cfp2:~ > cat a.rb

35 messages 2008/01/09
[#286991] Re: why does this code leak? — "=?ISO-8859-2?Q?Rados=B3aw_Bu=B3at?=" <radek.bulat@...> 2008/01/10

T24gSmFuIDEwLCAyMDA4IDEwOjE1IFBNLCBSb2JlcnQgRG9iZXIgPHJvYmVydC5kb2JlckBnbWFp

[#287063] Here Document syntax is stringent - trailing blank — Todd Burch <promos@...>

text = <<EOD

12 messages 2008/01/11

[#287067] Need command line to run a file 4 times — jackster the jackle <contact@...>

Hi Ruby Forum...

13 messages 2008/01/11
[#287074] Re: Need command line to run a file 4 times — Xavier Noria <fxn@...> 2008/01/11

On Jan 11, 2008, at 2:47 PM, jackster the jackle wrote:

[#287080] Counting the files in a directory.... — "Kyle Schmitt" <kyleaschmitt@...>

SSdtIHdyaXRpbmcgc29tZSBzY3JpcHRzIHRvIGhlbHAgbWFuYWdlIGEgbWFpbCBzY2FubmVyIHVz

18 messages 2008/01/11

[#287095] IRB Keyboard Input Issues — Oliver Saunders <oliver.saunders@...>

When I press the up arrow in IRB to access history I see this:

13 messages 2008/01/11

[#287188] Stream Parsing with REXML — Marc Hoeppner <marc.hoeppner@...>

Hi (again, sort of) :)

13 messages 2008/01/12

[#287190] Callable class with block — blondinet <jblondinet@...>

Hi everyone,

12 messages 2008/01/12

[#287199] Re: gem build documentation for new gems? — Eric Hodel <drbrain@...7.net>

On Jan 12, 2008, at 07:57 AM, Giles Bowkett wrote:

11 messages 2008/01/12

[#287226] Ruby from source on Leopard excruciatingly slow internet talk — "Chris Shea" <chris@...>

Just a couple of days ago I "upgraded" from Tiger to Leopard, and the

19 messages 2008/01/13

[#287282] regualr expression (need help) — Heinrich Piard <linux@...>

Hi all,

15 messages 2008/01/13

[#287368] regular expression — Johnathan Smith <stu_09@...>

hey

15 messages 2008/01/14
[#287371] Re: regular expression — "Robert Klemme" <shortcutter@...> 2008/01/14

2008/1/14, Johnathan Smith <stu_09@hotmail.com>:

[#287414] any tricks to speed up ruby? — Roger Pack <rogerpack2005@...>

31 messages 2008/01/14
[#287423] Re: any tricks to speed up ruby? — James Britt <james.britt@...> 2008/01/14

Roger Pack wrote:

[#287583] Re: any tricks to speed up ruby? — "M. Edward (Ed) Borasky" <znmeb@...> 2008/01/16

James Britt wrote:

[#287525] Overridding A Method Via A Mixin — Andrew Stewart <boss@...>

Hi Everyone,

17 messages 2008/01/15
[#287526] Re: Overridding A Method Via A Mixin — Robert Klemme <shortcutter@...> 2008/01/15

On 15.01.2008 18:32, Andrew Stewart wrote:

[#287666] ruby annoyances ... mine is line continuation, what's yours? — "scooterm@..." <scooterm@...>

Just thinking how really smart Ruby is in most areas makes it all the

11 messages 2008/01/16

[#287720] FXRuby or Shoes? — Doug Livesey <biot023@...>

Sorry I've posted this in the generic Ruby thread, but I wanted as

14 messages 2008/01/17

[#287735] LDAP Server not connected error — Varun Goel <varun.rajeshkumar@...>

hi all i made authentication function like this

12 messages 2008/01/17
[#287752] Re: LDAP Server not connected error — "Matt Todd" <chiology@...> 2008/01/17

Pluck out the actual LDAP code into IRB and see if it works. I've not

[#287757] Ruby syntax in "respond_to do |format| line -- can clarify? — Joshua Beall <jbeall.ruby@...>

Hi All,

12 messages 2008/01/17

[#287819] passing method references in python & ruby — "rpardee@..." <rpardee@...>

Hey all,

21 messages 2008/01/18
[#287897] Re: passing method references in python & ruby — "rpardee@..." <rpardee@...> 2008/01/18

On Jan 17, 8:12 pm, Justin Collins <justincoll...@ucla.edu> wrote:

[#287914] Re: passing method references in python & ruby — "=?ISO-8859-2?Q?Rados=B3aw_Bu=B3at?=" <radek.bulat@...> 2008/01/18

SW4gcHl0aG9uIHdoZW4geW91IHVzZSBtZXRob2QgbmFtZSB3aXRob3V0IHBhcmVudGhlc2lzZXMg

[#287917] Re: passing method references in python & ruby — Justin Collins <justincollins@...> 2008/01/18

Rados梶w Buウat wrote:

[#287989] Re: passing method references in python & ruby — Robert Klemme <shortcutter@...> 2008/01/19

On 18.01.2008 20:11, Justin Collins wrote:

[#288034] Re: passing method references in python & ruby — Justin Collins <justincollins@...> 2008/01/19

Robert Klemme wrote:

[#287869] Longest Repeated Substring (#153) — Ruby Quiz <james@...>

The three rules of Ruby Quiz:

62 messages 2008/01/18
[#287931] Re: Longest Repeated Substring (#153) — yermej <yermej@...> 2008/01/18

On Jan 18, 2:38 pm, Ken Bloom <kbl...@gmail.com> wrote:

[#287932] Re: Longest Repeated Substring (#153) — "=?ISO-8859-2?Q?Rados=B3aw_Bu=B3at?=" <radek.bulat@...> 2008/01/18

T24gSmFuIDE4LCAyMDA4IDEwOjAwIFBNLCB5ZXJtZWogPHllcm1lakBnbWFpbC5jb20+IHdyb3Rl

[#287895] Thin 0.5.3 Purple Yogurt release — Marc-AndrCournoyer <macournoyer@...>

Hey all,

15 messages 2008/01/18
[#287962] Re: [ANN] Thin 0.5.3 Purple Yogurt release — "s.ross" <cwdinfo@...> 2008/01/19

This has been working so well on my Mac dev machine, I built it out on =20=

[#287973] Re: [ANN] Thin 0.5.3 Purple Yogurt release — Bob Hutchison <hutch@...> 2008/01/19

[#287984] Re: [ANN] Thin 0.5.3 Purple Yogurt release — "s.ross" <cwdinfo@...> 2008/01/19

Got it up and running ... for a while. It's running as root/root and

[#287999] Re: [ANN] Thin 0.5.3 Purple Yogurt release — Marc-AndrCournoyer <macournoyer@...> 2008/01/19

Thin runs in a single thread, no need for a mutex there.

[#287953] Looking for code to determine length of audio files — "Rick DeNatale" <rick.denatale@...>

I'm working on a project which has the requirement to automatically

11 messages 2008/01/19

[#287971] Ruby with Mac OS X — Tj Superfly <nonstickglue@...>

Hello everyone,

22 messages 2008/01/19
[#287976] Re: Ruby with Mac OS X — "Hassan Schroeder" <hassan.schroeder@...> 2008/01/19

On Jan 18, 2008 8:37 PM, Tj Superfly <nonstickglue@verizon.net> wrote:

[#287978] Re: Ruby with Mac OS X — Tj Superfly <nonstickglue@...> 2008/01/19

She can't find the run file.

[#287979] Re: Ruby with Mac OS X — "Hassan Schroeder" <hassan.schroeder@...> 2008/01/19

On Jan 18, 2008 9:25 PM, Tj Superfly <nonstickglue@verizon.net> wrote:

[#287980] Re: Ruby with Mac OS X — Tj Superfly <nonstickglue@...> 2008/01/19

Hassan Schroeder wrote:

[#287985] Re: Ruby with Mac OS X — "s.ross" <cwdinfo@...> 2008/01/19

[#288000] Re: Ruby with Mac OS X — Tj Superfly <nonstickglue@...> 2008/01/19

Okay, we've got programs running!

[#288008] Re: Ruby with Mac OS X — "Windham, Kristopher R." <kriswindham@...> 2008/01/19

not sure what you are trying to do there..

[#288009] Re: Ruby with Mac OS X — Tj Superfly <nonstickglue@...> 2008/01/19

Well, I'm using it with arrays, here's a clip of the code that I'm

[#288133] Announcing Revactor: an Actor model implementation for Ruby 1.9 — "Tony Arcieri" <tony@...>

I'm pleased to announce the initial public availability of Revactor, an

25 messages 2008/01/21

[#288258] why must I initialize this variable? — matt@... (matt neuburg)

Here's a simple variable initialization / scope question. In the

14 messages 2008/01/22

[#288290] Determine where a method is being called from? — Ben Johnson <bjohnson@...>

Is it possible to determine if a public instance method is being called

11 messages 2008/01/22

[#288303] How to improve this code? — Jair Rillo Junior <jrjuniorsp@...>

Hi guys,

16 messages 2008/01/23

[#288308] Learning to build a MUD — Sean Dolbec <helbuns@...>

13 messages 2008/01/23

[#288348] Parsing HTML / following links etc — Dan Cuddeford <dancudds@...>

Hello all,

11 messages 2008/01/23

[#288391] Scripts run using load in "for" loop run out of order — Fa Sidd <siddiqifh@...>

Hi

13 messages 2008/01/23

[#288626] Making Change (#154) — Ruby Quiz <james@...>

The three rules of Ruby Quiz:

106 messages 2008/01/25
[#288653] Re: [QUIZ] Making Change (#154) — Dominik Honnef <dominikho@...> 2008/01/25

On [Sat, 26.01.2008 00:50], Ruby Quiz wrote:

[#288656] Re: [QUIZ] Making Change (#154) — "Jes俍 Gabriel y Gal疣" <jgabrielygalan@...> 2008/01/25

On Jan 25, 2008 9:53 PM, Dominik Honnef <dominikho@gmx.net> wrote:

[#288658] Re: [QUIZ] Making Change (#154) — James Gray <james@...> 2008/01/25

On Jan 25, 2008, at 3:09 PM, Jes=FAs Gabriel y Gal=E1n wrote:

[#288692] regular expression negate a word (not character) — Summercool <Summercoolness@...>

24 messages 2008/01/26

[#288773] Extracting Data from a Webpage — Tj Superfly <nonstickglue@...>

Hello everyone.

17 messages 2008/01/27

[#288847] Treetop parser (or PEG in general?) questions — Phrogz <phrogz@...>

I've been looking for something like treetop for a while now. Very

19 messages 2008/01/28

[#288916] Final Two Quizzes — James Gray <james@...>

As most of you know, we have two Ruby Quiz problems left (http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.ruby/msg/6f46393932c22e49

32 messages 2008/01/28
[#288978] Re: Final Two Quizzes — fedzor <fedzor@...> 2008/01/28

[#288980] Re: Final Two Quizzes — James Gray <james@...> 2008/01/28

On Jan 28, 2008, at 5:38 PM, fedzor wrote:

[#289016] Re: Final Two Quizzes — fedzor <fedzor@...> 2008/01/29

[#289026] Re: Final Two Quizzes — James Gray <james@...> 2008/01/29

On Jan 29, 2008, at 6:33 AM, fedzor wrote:

[#289048] Re: Final Two Quizzes — "Thomas Wieczorek" <wieczo.yo@...> 2008/01/29

Thank you for the many quizzes. I came to Ruby through a blog entry

[#289051] Re: Final Two Quizzes — James Gray <james@...> 2008/01/29

On Jan 29, 2008, at 3:23 PM, Thomas Wieczorek wrote:

[#289057] Re: Final Two Quizzes — Dominik Honnef <dominikho@...> 2008/01/29

On [Wed, 30.01.2008 06:34], James Gray wrote:

[#288973] Treetop Email Parser — Phrogz <phrogz@...>

(I would post this to the treetop mailing list...except there doesn't

14 messages 2008/01/28

[#289018] Proposal/RFQ: Hash#values/keys with block — "Dirk Traulsen" <dirk.traulsen@...>

Hi!

10 messages 2008/01/29

[#289046] newbie file write problem — Lars Zeb <larzeb@...>

This is my first attempt at ruby. I've written a class (SicCode) which

15 messages 2008/01/29

[#289060] For Loop question — Mark Mr <pimea.mark@...>

ok basically i cant quite figure out how to do a for loop i want in

13 messages 2008/01/29

[#289196] counting the number of repititions in an array — Adam Akhtar <adamtemporary@...>

Hi if i want to count the number of times values are repeated in an

10 messages 2008/01/30

[#289206] Ruby Puzzle Challenge — Wyatt Greene <greenewm@...>

Write a Ruby program that prints out the numbers 1 to 100, one number

14 messages 2008/01/30

[#289210] Learn how to program — "Regnum@... Regnum@..." <regnum@...>

Hi!, i want to learn how to program.Is ruby a good option?. Thanks.

30 messages 2008/01/30
[#289351] Re: Learn how to program — longint <michael.mello@...> 2008/01/31

On Jan 30, 4:30=A0pm, "Reg...@argentina.com Reg...@argentina.com"

[#289401] Re: Learn how to program — "Michael Bevilacqua-Linn" <michael.bevilacqualinn@...> 2008/02/01

IMHO,

[#289286] can ik make this more beautifull? — Remco Hh <remco@...>

nowadays i try to improve my coding style to produce nicer and beter

17 messages 2008/01/31

[#289355] Gedankenexperiment on method duck type safety — Tim Connor <timocratic@...>

*braces for the flames to follow*

13 messages 2008/01/31

[#289364] GUI for a newbie — Matthew Borgeson <hibridmatthias@...>

Hello All-

28 messages 2008/01/31

[#289375] how do you install a local gem? — 7stud -- <bbxx789_05ss@...>

Hi,

20 messages 2008/01/31
[#289378] Re: how do you install a local gem? — Stefano Crocco <stefano.crocco@...> 2008/01/31

Alle Thursday 31 January 2008, 7stud -- ha scritto:

[#289386] Re: how do you install a local gem? — 7stud -- <bbxx789_05ss@...> 2008/01/31

Stefano Crocco wrote:

[#289388] Re: how do you install a local gem? — Stefano Crocco <stefano.crocco@...> 2008/01/31

Alle Thursday 31 January 2008, 7stud -- ha scritto:

[#289398] Re: how do you install a local gem? — 7stud -- <bbxx789_05ss@...> 2008/02/01

Stefano Crocco wrote:

GNU Smalltalk 3.0 released

From: Paolo Bonzini <paolo.bonzini@...>
Date: 2008-01-07 18:22:51 UTC
List: ruby-talk #286477
My apologies if this message is perceived as spam.  Shortly after the
long awaited Ruby 1.9.0, GNU Smalltalk 3.0 has been released at

   ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/smalltalk/smalltalk-3.0.tar.gz

Unlike other Smalltalk environments, GNU Smalltalk emphasizes
Smalltalk's rapid prototyping features rather than the graphical and
easy-to-use nature of the programming environment.  Hence my message to
the Ruby community.

The release was tested on the following systems:

* i686-pc-linux-gnu
* x86_64-pc-linux-gnu
* powerpc-apple-darwin8.9.0
* powerpc-unknown-linux-gnu
* sparc-unknown-linux-gnu
* ia64-hp-linux-gnu
* s390-ibm-linux-gnu
* hppa-hp-linux-gnu

It should also work on Windows/Cygwin, and at least partially on MinGW.

Useful URLs:

* Home page: http://smalltalk.gnu.org/
* Downloading: http://smalltalk.gnu.org/download
* Mailing list: http://smalltalk.gnu.org/community/ml
* FAQ: http://smalltalk.gnu.org/faq
* Issue tracking: http://smalltalk.gnu.org/project/issues
* Wiki: http://smalltalk.gnu.org/wiki/main-page


Thanks to Stephen Compall, Thomas Girard, Robin Redeker for help
and testing of this release!

Paolo Bonzini




NEWS FROM 2.3.6 TO 3.0

(Changes from the last release candidate, 2.95h, are listed later.)

Important changes:

* A completely new syntax for defining classes is now present.  This is
detailed in the manual (see the tutorial section) and the entire source
code of the system uses the new syntax.

* A different startup sequence is used which improves the possibility to
customize GNU Smalltalk, both site-wide and per-user.  The details are
in the manual, the main changes are these: the `~/.stinit' and
`~/.stpre' files are now named `~/.st/init.st' and `~/.st/pre.st'; files
requested with the `-K' command-line option are sought for in the
`~/.st' directory too; kernel files may be overridden by placing them in
`~/.st/kernel'; a site-wide customization file can be placed in
`/usr/local/share/smalltalk/site-pre.st'.

The kernel path is stored in the image and not changed when the image is
loaded.  In addition, `Directory systemKernel' and `Directory
localKernel' are not used anymore, and just return the same as
`Directory kernel'.

Finally, Smalltalk programs have access to the aforementioned `~`/.st'
directory as `Directory userKernel' (name subject to change).  A
`packages.xml' file, as well as `.star' files (see later) can be put there.

* Several classes not meant to be accessed by the user have been moved
to an internal Kernel namespace.  This also removes them from the
automatically generated documentation.

* GNU Smalltalk now needs InfoZIP to be installed on the machine where
it is compiled, in order to use the new single-file package facility.
In the future, this dependency may be removed.

* The tool for automatic documentation generator, that has been used by
the GNU Smalltalk distribution for a long time, is now installed as gst-doc.


Backwards-incompatible changes:

* If you want to return a specific CObject class from a C call-out, it
is suggested that you stop using "returning: ClassName type", as in

        <cCall: 'dupwin' returning: NCWindow type args: #(#self )>!

and instead use

        <cCall: 'dupwin' returning: #{NCWindow} args: #(#self )>!
                                    ^^^^^^^^^^^

The source code conversion tool might silently produce an incorrect
output if you use the former syntax.

* The ABI for external usage has changed.  libgst.a does not know
anymore how to parse options, but exports functions to achieve the same
effect as options.

* The #writeStream and #streamContents: method were moved down from
SequenceableCollection to ArrayedCollection, since they did not really
work on variable-sized collections such as OrderedCollections.

* The database access library has been replaced by a new DBI-like
library, contributed by Mike Anderson, with bindings to PostgreSQL (also
contributed by Mike), SQLite (by Daniele Sciascia) and MySQL.

* In general, GNU Smalltalk is able to load files with the old syntax.
In some cases, however, it will be necessary to either convert them
using the gst-convert tool, or load the Parser package before them.
This is the case if you get a "not yet implemented" error while loading
the files.


Packages improvements:

* All packages in the distribution are now installed in the new ".star"
format (for SmallTalk ARchive).

".star" files include at the top a package.xml file (whose format is the
same as the <package> tag of packages.xml).  The name of ".star" file
should be the same as the name of the package if the package.xml file
has a <name> tag.

* In install mode, gst-package automatically creates a ".star" file.
gst-package also accepts ".star" files on the command line; in this
case, install mode will simply copy the file instead of rebuilding it
from scratch.

* gst-package supports preparing a standard skeleton for package
tarballs, using the --prepare option.

* Packages can specify a "testing-only" subpackage that is loaded when
running tests (e.g. with "gst-load --test" or "gst-sunit --package"),
but not when loading the package normally.  This is done with a <test>
tag nested into <package>.


Other major changes:

* Added #from: to Collection, which constructs an instance of the class
based on a conveniently specified Array.  This allows one to construct
Dictionaries or LookupTables using

	Dictionary from: { 1->2. 3->4 }

Another methods meant to be used with the { ... } syntax is #join.  For
example

         { 'hello'. a. '!' } join

returns a string and is the same as using #, repeatedly, but is more
efficient.

* All collection classes support #readStream, though the default
implementation (which uses generators) could be slow.

* Continuations and generators have moved to the base image.  More
complex examples of continuations still reside in the Continuations package.

* Directory entries are passed to #allFilesMatching:do:'s block argument
if they match aPattern.  As before, the function descends in all the
directories, even those that do not match aPattern.

* Evaluated code now puts undeclared variables in a private namespace
(so that you do not have to declare temporaries) and defers the
resolution of undefined variable bindings until the time of their first
access.

Unfortunately, this slows down evaluated code noticeably; you can get
back the performance by putting code in a method or an Eval (in the
latter case, you will have to declare temporaries explicitly, or the
code will still use the slower deferred variable binding).

* Flushing a socket tries to push data all the way down to the network.
  This usually removes the need for TCP_NODELAY option.  If you have
applications that want to use #flush to send data to the OS, but not to
the network, we're all ears.

* Image load uses copy-on-write memory mapped files.  This means that,
as long as a loaded object is not touched, the operating system will map
it to the same physical memory, for different copies of the GNU
Smalltalk virtual machine that loaded the same image.

* Processes that are garbage collected before they terminate execution
(e.g.  because they are waiting on a semaphore that is also garbage
collected) are appropriately terminated.

* Saving the image breaks hard links.  This was done to work around a
Linux kernel bug, and might change in future versions.

* Since they are not portable outside Unix systems, the `archive'
virtual filesystems (deb, lslR, mailfs, patchfs, uar, urar, uzoo, ulha,
ucpio, utar) are now available only if the VFSAddOns package is loaded.
  Without the package, only #uzip is available and it will only support
extracting from ZIP files.

* Startup time and quit time were improved widely (the time for running
a simple "Hello, World" program is about one fifth of 2.3.x).

* SUnit scripts can declare variables (using a "variable=value" syntax)
that can be accessed from within a testsuite.

* The "<category: 'bar'>" pragma can be used to set the category of a
method.

* The graphical browser can now be started just by typing "gst-blox".

* The image is now installed in /usr/local/var/lib/smalltalk (which in
most distributions will map to /var/lib/smalltalk).

* The MySQL driver was updated to support MySQL 4.x authentication.
Tests can be run by configuring with
--enable-mysql-tests=USER:PASSWORD:DB (the given user, password and
database should already exists when `make check' is run; the default is
"root:root:test").

* The XML package has been split in five smaller packages,
XML-SAXDriver, XML-DOM, XML-SAXParser, XML-NodeBuilder and
XML-XMLParser.  The previous name XML can still be used.  In the future
it may load a different but compatible (e.g. Expat-based) parser.

* When declaring a C function, the #returning: argument now supports
specifying CPtr and CArray types, the same way it is done in CStruct and
CUnion declarations.  For example, since you can specify an "int *" as
"#{CInt}", an "int **" (pointer to pointer to Integer, i.e. pointer to
CInt) would be written "#(#ptr #{CInt})".

Conversion from Array to CType is generally available using the CType
class>>#from: method.

* The zlib bindings' WriteStream decorator supports partial flushing.
Class PipeStream is distributed independently as it is not used anymore
by the zlib bindings.


New goodies:

* A new package DebugTools provides a generic Debugger class that can be
used to control an inferior Smalltalk process.  It is used by the
textual MiniDebugger as well as the debugger that is part of the GUI.

* Complex numbers support added (package Complex).

* GNUPlot bindings

* JSON reader/writer contributed by Robin Redeker.

* MD5 packages renamed to Digest, SHA1 support added.

* New DBI-like library replacing the old one, contributed by Mike Anderson.

----------------------------------------------------------------------

NEWS FROM 2.95h to 3.0

* On Alpha, GNU Smalltalk now uses the -mieee C compiler flag.

* Works around a bug in lrint for ia64 and other 64-bit platforms.

* Generational garbage collection enabled on ia64.  Builds on ia64.

* Improved error recovery in interactive mode.

* Provides a public PackageNotAvailable exception.

* Added a #terminateOnQuit method to exit a process when
ObjectMemory>>#quit is called.

* Merged some parts of the wiki into the manual.

* Fixed several bugs.

* Added Collection>>#readStream.

* Does not close stdin/stdout/stderr on output (flushing it instead).

* Fixed crash in SmallInteger>>#divExact:

* Compiles (again) on Mac OS X 10.3.x.


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