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[Pharo-project] Fwd: [squeak-dev] The SOM Family
by StÃ©phane Ducasse Sept. 17, 2009

Sept. 17, 2009

Begin forwarded message: > From: Michael Haupt <mhaupt(a)gmail.com> > Date: September 17, 2009 5:48:57 PM CEDT > To: The general-purpose Squeak developers list <squeak-dev(a)lists.squeakfoundation.org > >, ESUG Mailing list <esug-list(a)lists.esug.org> > Subject: [squeak-dev] The SOM Family > Reply-To: The general-purpose Squeak developers list <squeak-dev(a)lists.squeakfoundation.org > > > > Hi, > > apologies for cross-posting ... > > At ESUG, I gave a short presentation on the SOM family of virtual > machine implementations (in Java, C, C++, and Squeak), and also said > that the VMs were not yet available. > > Well, *that* has changed now. They're available. They're MIT licensed. > They're fun. They're there for youse to use. ;-) > > I have one request: if you use them, please let me know. I'm curious > in what scenarios they're deployed. Also, please let me know about any > problems, suggestions for improvement, and such. > > Oh, ere I forget: http://www.hpi.uni-potsdam.de/swa/projects/som :-) > > Best, > > Michael >

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[Pharo-project] Website screenshots
by Torsten Bergmann Sept. 17, 2009

Sept. 17, 2009

Nice! Thanks T. -- Jetzt kostenlos herunterladen: Internet Explorer 8 und Mozilla Firefox 3 - sicherer, schneller und einfacher! http://portal.gmx.net/de/go/atbrowser

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[Pharo-project] Macintosh os-x 10.4.x and Alien & ObjectiveC plugins get updated.
by John M McIntosh Sept. 17, 2009

Sept. 17, 2009

In the sometimes hectic rush in building both the Alien and ObjectiveC plugins for OS-X when Apple pushed out it seems 53 beta version of XCode for snow leopard and iPhone OS 3.x I managed to build both plugins for OS-X 10.5 only. Finally someone noticed, oddly this took awhile... Therefore today I did recompile the IA32ABI.bundle (Alien plugin) for usage on 10.4.x as IA32ABI.1.1.1.bundle.zip and uploaded to my ftp site (experimental folder). The ObjectiveCPlugin was more problematic, since it makes optional use of Protocols which aren't fully supported in 10.4. But I did build a special version ObjectiveCPlugin.1.1.1.OSX10.4.xOnly. bundle.zip which you again will find on the ftp site in the experimental folder. That 10.4.x only plugin doesn't support the optional protocol interface. But likely if you need it, then you don't support 10.4 anyway. -- = = = ======================================================================== John M. McIntosh <johnmci(a)smalltalkconsulting.com> Twitter: squeaker68882 Corporate Smalltalk Consulting Ltd. http://www.smalltalkconsulting.com = = = ========================================================================

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[Pharo-project] NBS-ISCC Color Names
by Ken Dickey Sept. 17, 2009

Sept. 17, 2009

Greetings, I don't know if anyone is interested, but PharoInbox now contains a change set, Graphics-KenDickey.131, which adds Color names based on NBS-ISCC Color Centroids as described in: http://people.csail.mit.edu/jaffer/Color/Dictionaries After the change set has been filed in, one should invoke "Color initializeNames" in a workspace. "Color explore" and look at the pool dictionary for swatches and details. This set of Color names has the properties: * explicit and non-restrictive copyright and license (below) * no name conflicts between colors * color names are specific to surface colors or lighting * colors are distributed to equalize perceptual distances between them and * colors are derived from matching physical samples In particular, the licence is " Copyright \251 2003 Voluntocracy. Permission is granted to copy and distribute modified or unmodified versions of this color dictionary provided the copyright notice and this permission notice are preserved on all copies and the entire such work is distributed under the terms of a permission notice identical to this one. " Cheers, -KenD

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[Pharo-project] Website screenshots
by Gary Chambers Sept. 17, 2009

Sept. 17, 2009

I guess the IDE screenshot could do with updating... old-stlye buttons! Just mention because linked from Planet Squeak (re: Facelifiting Smalltalk). Might be nice with #showTextEditingState preference enabled now too... Regards, Gary

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[Pharo-project] Fwd: Status of Alien FFI
by StÃ©phane Ducasse Sept. 17, 2009

Sept. 17, 2009

ken eliot is not in the pharo mailing-list so I repost it. Begin forwarded message: > From: Eliot Miranda <eliot.miranda(a)gmail.com> > Date: September 17, 2009 12:17:13 AM CEDT > To: StÃ©phane Ducasse <stephane.ducasse(a)inria.fr> > Subject: Re: [Pharo-project] Status of Alien FFI > > > what should I do? > > On Wed, Sep 16, 2009 at 3:09 PM, <pharo-project-owner(a)lists.gforge.inria.fr > > wrote: > You are not allowed to post to this mailing list, and your message has > been automatically rejected. If you think that your messages are > being rejected in error, contact the mailing list owner at > pharo-project-owner(a)lists.gforge.inria.fr. > > > > ---------- Forwarded message ---------- > From: Eliot Miranda <eliot.miranda(a)gmail.com> > To: Ken Treis <ken(a)miriamtech.com> > Date: Wed, 16 Sep 2009 15:09:43 -0700 > Subject: Re: [Pharo-project] Status of Alien FFI > Hi Ken, > > On Wed, Sep 16, 2009 at 12:17 PM, Ken Treis <ken(a)miriamtech.com> > wrote: > > On Sep 16, 2009, at 12:02 PM, Douglas Brebner wrote: > > One minor point is that whether integers and longs are different > depends > on the platforms data model. Under MS Win64, integers and long > integers > are both 32bit, while on most unixes integers are 32bit while long > ints > are 64bit. (LLP64 and LP64 models respectively) > > Really? so sizeof(int) == sizeof(long) and sizeof(long) ~= > sizeof(__int64)?? Strange choice (see below) ;) > Every other 64bit platform I've seen has used > sizeof(int) == 4, sizeof(long) == sizeof(long long) > > But one should insulate oneself using appropriate defines/typedefs, > and include asserts to confirm basic types are of the size one > assumes. > > I don't know if this is important though. > > Good point. All of my platforms are LP64 (Mac OS X and Linux > x86-64), and my main objective at present is to get this working for > an application I'm committed to build, so I was ignoring those sorts > of cross-platform details. > > Perhaps there would need to be new primitives for the basic size of > each relevant C type? I'm anxious to hear what Eliot might have to > say about this since he's got about 2000x more experience with this > than I do. > > are you using the 64-bit VM? If you're using a 32-bit VM on a 64- > bit platform then yu're using 32-bits and you'll be linking against > 32-bit libraries and hence nothing will have changed. > > Alien has support for 64-bit values. Of course it uses the Windows > choice, short = 2, int unused as a name, long = 4, longLong = 8. e.g. > anAlien unsignedByteAt: oneRelativeIndex > anAlien unsignedShortAt: oneRelativeIndex > anAlien unsignedLongAt: oneRelativeIndex > anAlien unsignedLongLongAt: oneRelativeIndex > are the basic primitives for fetching unsigned integers. > > But this needs to be wrapped with something that selects the right > sizes based on the current platform and that's yet to be addressed. > > > > > -- > Ken Treis > Miriam Technologies, Inc. > > > >

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[Pharo-project] contents of file
by Tudor Girba Sept. 16, 2009

Sept. 16, 2009

Hi, I want to obtain the contents of a file. I am doing the followings: (FileStream readOnlyFileFullyNamed: fullPath) contentsOfEntireFile However, what I get is a string with tabs instead of new lines. I am on a Mac, and the file I am using is UTF8 using LF. Can anyone tell me what I am doing wrong? Cheers, Doru -- www.tudorgirba.com "Not knowing how to do something is not an argument for how it cannot be done."

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[Pharo-project] Fixes for image segments
by Nicolas Cellier Sept. 16, 2009

Sept. 16, 2009

I just fixed Symbol allInstances -> Symbol allSymbols in http://source.squeak.org/trunk/System-nice.148.mcz This was already in Pharo I think, however, Eliot did some other changes that might be worth to check.

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Sept. 16, 2009

10454 ----- - Issue 1223: reduce message text on full name prompt - Issue 1222: edit Repository information->cancel fails. UIManager#multiLineRequest:centerAt:initialAnswer:answerHeight: returns nil - Issue 1199: Debug log is overwritten with each error Thanks!

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Sept. 16, 2009

Hi guys I would like what you think of these wonderful popups that try to help to write cool code but just get in my way: "this variable is not used.... you did not store into it.... Could we agree that we are adults? and this is more a pain than anything else? Stef

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