Changes:

GRCodec in Pharo now uses the Zinc encoders for all codecs

Changes:

• Pharo 10 package renamed from Grease-Pharo10-Core to Grease-Pharo100-Core to avoid confusion with Pharo 1.0
• Pharo 10 compatibility: removed references to TextConverter
• GemStone: added GsContext>>tempNamed for compatibility with Pharo 10

Changes:

#130: Use ZnUTF8Encoder instead of TextConverter in Pharo9+
#131: GRGemStoneRandomProvider class instvars mutex and generator are obsolete

Changes:

#125: SequenceableCollection>>#sorted unnecessary in Pharo 9
#127: GRGemStonePlatform>>fileExists: reports on directory instead of file

Fixes to GRPackage dependency declarations to fix some broken examples that rely on them

Changes:

Pharo: #122 (changes in 1.6.0 accidentally reverted to ascii encoding instead of utf8 for all ‘text’ files in WAFileLibrary subclasses)

Changes:

#116 : GemStone 3.5.6 fix
#119 : GRUtf8CodecTest fix
#121: Pharo 9 inspector improvements for GRSmallDictionary + removed obsolete extensions for the Object Explorer

Changes:

Pharo 9: Opening of debugger via GRPlatform>>openDebuggerOn: fixed.

Changes:

• #40: GRPlatform>>thisContext support finalized
• #111: Support for GemStone 3.6
• #112: Implement GRCodec>>allCodecs in GemStone
• #114 & #115: Pharo9 support: possibility to switch between (deprecated) UTF8TextConverter and ZnUTF8Encoder for GRPharoUtf8Codec.
• Pharo 4 & 5: removed from the supported list of platforms

Important for Pharo 9 users:

Due to the deprecation of TextConverter, Grease 1.7.0 adds the possibility to switch to the Zinc UTF8 encoder/decoder in Pharo 9’s implementation of GRPharoUtf8Codec, which uses the UTF8TextConverter by default.

We keep the old TextConverter encoder/decoder as the default for now. The problem is that the old encoder (UTF8TextConverter) uses a stream on a String collection while ZnUtf8Encoder requires a ByteArray collection in the stream. Code changes are therefore often required. Seaside is not yet ready either but will switch at the some point.

Users can switch between the used encoders by using:
GRPlatform current setutf8CodectoDeprecatedTextConverter and GRPlatform current setutf8CodectoZinc

#107: Contents of empty binary file in Pharo8+ should be an empty ByteArray rather than nil