[ANN] VAST 9.2.1 Released & Planned Features for VAST 2021

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Mariano Martinez Peck

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Mar 10, 2020, 9:04:37 PM3/10/20
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Fellow Smalltalkers, 

It's a pleasure to tell you all that VAST 9.2.1 was just released. In addition, you can see the planned features for VAST 2021.

Hope you enjoy, 

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Software Engineer, Instantiations Inc.

Adriaan van Os

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Mar 11, 2020, 6:10:30 PM3/11/20
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Congratulations to the whole team. Keep up the good work. :-)

Joachim Tuchel

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Mar 12, 2020, 4:01:11 AM3/12/20
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You guys keep amazing me!
I was lucky that my SMTP and IMAP needs were already met with 9.2, but it is great to see you're not stopping where you are. The new SMTP/IMAP APIs are great, btw. Sending and receiving mails is a no brainer now with 9.2 (and even more so with 9.2.1, I hear).


I look forward to trying 9.2.1 and also 2021. The Windows GUI improvements will be more than welcome in lots of existing projects.
Seems your schedule has no room for boredom ;-)


Joachim

Totally Objects

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Mar 13, 2020, 12:00:19 PM3/13/20
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Mariano. I am very pleased about the release, however I am having some difficulty understanding what has happened with the installation. I am getting old so my brain ain't as quick as it used to be but:

I have 9.1, 9.2 and now 9.2.1 installed on my laptop. I am trying to put the abtpay dll away so I went to my  Program Files (x86) directory then VA Smalltalk - then expecting to see the normal list of folders and dlls, all I have is directory called Documentation. Now I cannot find the dlls for any of the installations. However - everything works!

Tell me I am going stupid and everything is...   Please?

David
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Mariano Martinez Peck

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Mar 13, 2020, 12:23:59 PM3/13/20
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Hi David, 

My gut feeling is that you installed the 64 bits version of VAST? Then that should be in c:\Program Files\Instantiations\VA Smalltalk\9XXXX

Could that be the reason?

Best,

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Totally Objects

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Mar 16, 2020, 12:32:23 PM3/16/20
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Ashamed and feeling very stupid. Perhaps my little grey cells have deserted me. You are, of course, correct. 
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Mariano Martinez Peck

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Mar 16, 2020, 12:37:31 PM3/16/20
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No problem David. It happens to all of us :)  
I am glad it was that the reason.

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Totally Objects

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Mar 16, 2020, 12:46:32 PM3/16/20
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OK so another question. I have all the code I have ever written back to 1996 in my 9.2 config file. It is a real pain going through the complete list picking out my code and importing each one. I have just tried ConfigMaps - Names - Import - All Most Recent Versions . This seems to import everything including my old code but - is that something \I should be doing because it loads something of everything. Does this cause conflicts with the current 9.2.1 install? Should I do this or should I go back to manually importing each and every config map?

Likewise, I can't see it but is there an easy way to import all of my applications that aren't in config maps?

I am very much a front end programmer so I could do with some ideas about this stuff.

David

Mariano Martinez Peck

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Mar 16, 2020, 1:12:04 PM3/16/20
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On Mon, Mar 16, 2020 at 1:46 PM Totally Objects <da...@totallyobjects.com> wrote:
OK so another question. I have all the code I have ever written back to 1996 in my 9.2 config file. It is a real pain going through the complete list picking out my code and importing each one. I have just tried ConfigMaps - Names - Import - All Most Recent Versions . This seems to import everything including my old code but - is that something \I should be doing because it loads something of everything. Does this cause conflicts with the current 9.2.1 install? Should I do this or should I go back to manually importing each and every config map?

Likewise, I can't see it but is there an easy way to import all of my applications that aren't in config maps?

I am very much a front end programmer so I could do with some ideas about this stuff.

You can use the importer.exe tool from ANY VAST installation. Example:

"importer.exe" "-z.target=envy::/Users/mariano/Trabajo/Instantiations/Common/Development/Managers/MainManager91.dat" "-z.source=c:\ProgramData\Instantiations\VA Smalltalk\9.2\manager\mgr92.dat"

It simply receives a source and a target manager. Each manager could be either a local directory or a EMSRV server.
That will import all maps/apps etc from source to target. 


Best, 
 

Richard Sargent

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Mar 16, 2020, 4:03:24 PM3/16/20
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On Monday, March 16, 2020 at 10:12:04 AM UTC-7, Mariano Martinez Peck wrote:


On Mon, Mar 16, 2020 at 1:46 PM Totally Objects <da...@totallyobjects.com> wrote:
OK so another question. I have all the code I have ever written back to 1996 in my 9.2 config file. It is a real pain going through the complete list picking out my code and importing each one. I have just tried ConfigMaps - Names - Import - All Most Recent Versions . This seems to import everything including my old code but - is that something \I should be doing because it loads something of everything. Does this cause conflicts with the current 9.2.1 install? Should I do this or should I go back to manually importing each and every config map?

I run with an everything.dat repository and I import the code from each new release into *it*. That works well and also allows me to see how the VASt code changed from release to release. 

Marten Feldtmann

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Jun 8, 2020, 2:23:09 AM6/8/20
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Asynchronous callins ?

Thats sounds amazing !


Marten



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