# HG changeset patch # User Claus Gittinger # Date 1079088083 -3600 # Node ID 365643266a7d4e093eced0171cbb87f132d737f5 # Parent 5acfd4c25456b559ed5a97d19bb12a3bb420d7b1 *** empty log message *** diff -r 5acfd4c25456 -r 365643266a7d Hello.wsp --- a/Hello.wsp Fri Mar 12 11:40:20 2004 +0100 +++ /dev/null Thu Jan 01 00:00:00 1970 +0000 @@ -1,162 +0,0 @@ -Hello World ! - -Welcome to the 5.x ST/X release. -Please refer to the online documentation for detailed release notes. - -Whats new in 5.2 ? - General Unicode font support. - Character input view. - -Whats new in 5.1.6 ? - Bug fixes in the windows version (API-wraps, exceptions etc.) - HTML-tree and HTTPService presenter (for flexible response-layout) - Font handling: FontPanel fixes; better unicode handling. - File-I/O: fixes for 32bit API (seek, stat etc.) to handle full 32bit - positions; added 64bit API (huge file support) - -Whats new in 5.1.5 ? - Bug fixes in the windows version (API-wraps, exceptions etc.) - HTTPServer/HTTPService framework improvements. - -Whats new in 5.1.4 ? - Better performance and restructured code in the HTTPServer/HTTPService framework. - -Whats new in 5.1.2 ? - NewSystemBrowser and NewFileBrowsers are now the default. - added more features (code search) to the NewSystemBrowser. - SIXX (Smalltalk Instance exchange via XML) added. - Some bug fixes. - -Whats new in 5.1.1 ? - Removed unused instance variables from Class (therefore a major version step). - Stream positioning is now 0-based. - File open errors now raise an error instead of raising a notification and returning nil. - Many HTTPServer improvements. - -Whats new in 4.1.9 ? - Better HTTPServer administration. - XML-Xpath and XSL support - Comanche STT added (Smalltalk Templates) - -Whats new in 4.1.8 ? - HTTPServer refactored for much easier pluggability - - SOAP demos & examples - try the translation service - (in the workspace or via the Launchers Demos-BabelFish menu item.) - - Comanche Swiki ported from Squeak - a *much* nicer swiki; nice look; better administration. - - NewProcessMonitor - better look; - - More configuration options and improved settings dialog - - Many improvements and bug fixes all over the place (lots of WIN32 fixes) - - We now recommend the use of the NewFileBrowser and NewSystemBrowser - tools (they are in use for quite some time now) - - -Whats new in 4.1.x ? - -A list of new features with links into the documentation -is found via the Launchers "Help" -> "Whats new in ST/X" menu item. - - first of all: - finally a new licensing scheme; - Please read the files - TOP/README (the README tab) - which contains the additional license information. - Make sure you agree - or else please contact us. - - Settings - you will find a preliminary version of the pluggable settingsApp - in the Launchers System-Menu, if you turn ON the - "Use the new SettingsDialog" flag in the "Launcher-Settings-Tools" dialog. - - NewSystemBrowser - go to the "Launcher-Settings-Tools" dialog, - and turn ON the "Use the new SystemBrowser" flag. - (This takes a short time to load the browser, - so you may want to save an image after that, to avoid the delay in the future.) - Please have a look into the updated HTML Documentation. - - cg: it is a good idea to also turn ON the - "new VersionDiff Browser" flag. - However, I dont like the new ChangesBrowser anymore ;-) - - NewFileBrowser - MultiPane, Hierarchical Tree, File Properties, - mime-type controlled presentation and more... - go to the "Launcher-Settings-Tools" dialog, - and turn ON the "Use the new FileBrowser" flag. - - - ChangesBrowser - now has multi-select capability and a pull down menu. - if auto-compare is ON, diffs are shown immediately in the lower pane. - - SUnit testing framework - see the Launchers "Tools" menu, or double click on any - class derived from TestCase in the NewSystemBrowser. - Last TestResults are remembered and indicated in the browsers class-icons. - -Additional ported goodies: - - Minnestore, an object data base - (status: runs almost testcases and I think it is almost usable; but who knows...) - - SOAP - thanks to Steve Waring & Masashi Umezawa - - XML-VW - thanks to Cincom; a portable XML parser - And then there were two of them ;-) - Some preliminary support to fileIn XML-source has also been added. - - XML-YAXO - yet another XML parser. - - SIF - the smalltalk interchange format - - RefactoryBrowser - is available both in its original version - (see the RefactoryBrowser class) - and via the NewSystemBrowser (which uses the reafactorings, - but is not based on the refactoryBrowser other than that) - - measurements - a units package (kelvin to fahrenheit at its best) - - stMath - a math package (see the test cases) - - - quite a bunch of new widgets, widget improvements and bug fixes. - Many bug fixes in the compiler(s) and the VM. - - For Windows Users: - winstx.exe (i.e. stx without a console window) now works again; - [although as a developer, I still prefer stx.exe ...) - - stx.exe/winstx.exe can now be started multiple times under - W95/W98 (had a wrong linker flag in the nt.defs file, which - prevented the previous version from doing that). - - stx for win can now be (re)compiled using the freeBorland tools - (and the free stx version actually is ...). - There is no longer a need to buy a compiler to add primitive - code to st/x. - Of course, if you stay on the smalltalk level, there is still no - need for any compiler at all - the built-in jitter does not - require a compiler. - - - - - ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- -This Documents Version: $Revision$