Dear all, I am pleased to announce Phratch website: www.phratch.com Thanks to the support of ESUG, it is possible to make visible this wonderful project. For now, what is available on the site: - a presentation of Phratch (you can refer to it now) - installation files, there is a portable version for Windows, Linux, MacOS. - tutorials - block documentation: generated from a Phratch image ! - Some elements for Jetstorm (a lot of new articles will come soon) - a category with news Now about the versions, I am developing the version 3.0 Why this number ? Why a third version in one year of work ? It is clear that a lot of work is already done. Each version represents strong changes in the architecture. - version 1.0 is the port of Scratch + BYOB + Panther in Pharo. It is working but not extendable. - version 2.0 makes Phratch really extendable. We can develop our own block for everything in Pharo. I also make Phratch more modular with the use of Pragmas for some menus, declaration of blocks... It is available only in Pharo 3.0. There are some languages available, I hope more people can translate in other languages (http://www.phratch.com/archives/612). - version 3.0 is the version in development. What is new here: Before this version Phratch was really slow. I am cleaning the code, and now it begins to be fast, really fast ! We also begun to write tests. I am really happy to have the support of ESUG and Pharo. Thanks to the community to make Pharo as usable as it it, it makes our dreams possible. Cheers, -- ~~Jannik Laval~~ École des Mines de Douai Enseignant-chercheur http://www.jannik-laval.eu http://car.mines-douai.fr/