Pharo 1.4

Over the period of time I was working towards the Apps For Energy submission I found that my main development environment Pharo had pushed our a new version 1.4. My project was being done in 1.3 and I did not want to be distracted by making version adjustments at that time so I ignored it. But today I gave it a try.

Here is my experience. I downloaded the One Click 1.4 and created loaded my Green Button App from the Montecello sources. It took quiet a while for Seaside to load and I have a Metacello problem in my Configuration where the work around is just to load the project a second time and run a few initialization methods. Most of that went smoothly. I should have set the deprecation handling to don't bother me because the none of the deprecated methods were from my code. There were deprecated methods from Zinc and from Seaside. When I ran seaside /status it raised a number of deprecation warnings around accessing information related to the VM, I fixed all these points and wrote out a package with those fixes.

It is now time to explore all the new additions and find our about the "Ring" code I have heard about but don't have a clue about. So maybe I will report on that in about a week.