Iliad 0.8 released!

We are happy to announce the release of Iliad version 0.8 for GNU
Smalltalk et Pharo.

New features include:

- Iliad is now using Grease and non portable code has been partially
replaced;
- The "mark dirty" mechanism has been rewritten to improve support for
tabs/windows sharing the same session;
- The new Formula package makes it easy to build validated forms;
- Control flow has been improved with new widgets (like confirmations,
sequences, etc) and widgets can append or prepend other widgets;
- In addition to static files served with ILDiskDirectory, they can also
be served from the image with ILMemoryDirectory;
- Smalltalk code can be evaluated on DOM events with #on<event>Do: ;
- Rewrite rules can be applied to the url builder;

Last but not least, the release also includes an experimental
implementation of Comet using XmlHttpRequest long polling.


GNU Smalltalkers can download Iliad with gst-package (using GST 3.2):
gst-package -t ~/.st --download iliad

Or clone it from github:
git clone git://github.com/NicolasPetton/iliad.git


Pharo users can download a preconfigured image:
http://www.iliadproject.org/resources/lYk5F_GiApFb/ggAMT_HRzRph9Yxp/Iliad-0.8-Pharo.zip

Or download Iliad packages from the SqueakSource repository:
http://www.squeaksource.com/Iliad.html

We would like to thank Steven Costiou for his work on the Pharo version
of Iliad.


Nicolas Petton & Sébastien Audier

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 On 18.04.2010 01:05, Julian Fitzell wrote:

Cool stuff, Nicolas. I'm happy to see Grease getting use in the wild... I'm curious to what degree it met your needs?

I just recorded a podcast with James Robertson this week talking about cross-platform development. He asked what other projects were using Grease and I'm afraid I didn't know to include yours. :)

Julian

From my limited experience, beyond the ANSI standard, Grease seems like a  step forward towards more dialect compatibility,
2c: How about a "Greasifier" (Grease lubricate: ? ;) ), which would take as input a package/arbitrary unit of code, and emit an equivalent unit of code, in which methods whose  bytecodes would be equivalent to the dialect-specific Grease method were rewritten to use the Grease equivalent? (The other way around would ofc also be possible)

Now I'm not really happy with the codec stuff, as from a GNU Smalltalker
point of view it seems too Squeak/Pharo oriented, but I can leave with
that for now.

Le dimanche 18 avril 2010 à 19:25 +0100, Julian Fitzell a écrit :

> 2010/4/18 Nicolas Petton <[hidden email]>
>         Now I'm not really happy with the codec stuff, as from a GNU
>         Smalltalker
>         point of view it seems too Squeak/Pharo oriented, but I can
>         leave with
>         that for now.
>
> To be honest, I'm not totally happy with that part either. :) It's
> good enough for now but reworking the encoding stuff is on my
> (personal, anyway) list for Seaside 3.1.

Why do you keep Grease into Seaside's repository? Couldn't it have its
own repository and roadmap?