November 2010 - Pharo-dev - lists.pharo.org

Re: [Pharo-project] Failing tests in 1.2

by StÃ©phane Ducasse

Thanks nicolas. I prefer that than to chase a MC bug :) I wrote some tests too to cover the float printing and I will check yours. Stef >> Thanks nicolas >> >> This is strange but I could not find the KernelTests-Nice.297 package in the inbox. >> and I imagine that you save the slice so this looks like a bug I do not like :(... >> >> Stef >> > > Oh sorry, it's probably me who aborted one of these http operations... > You know the kind of > data was latedata was latedata was latedata was latedata was late. > I have uploaded my local copy now. > > Nicolas >

Nov. 1, 2010

Re: [Pharo-project] XML package is barking at load time

by StÃ©phane Ducasse

On Nov 1, 2010, at 4:14 PM, Johan Brichau wrote: > Hi Stef, > > This works without dog sounds: > > Gofer new > squeaksource: 'MetacelloRepository'; > package: 'ConfigurationOfXMLSupport'; load. > ConfigurationOfXMLSupport load Thanks johan! Probably the configuration in the Project is not up to date. The pattern should be publish and maintain a configuration per project (imagine that metacelloRepository vanish tomorrow) copy the config from time to time to Metacello Alex is it you that maintain the configurationOfXMLSupport? The new publish mechanism dale is working on will probably save this problem. Stef > On 31 Oct 2010, at 10:55, stephane ducasse wrote: > >> Gofer new >> squeaksource: 'XMLSupport'; >> package: 'XML-Parser'; load. >> >> raise error because of tests not present. >> >> Did I do something wrong? > >

Nov. 1, 2010

[Pharo-project] apparently the tests are blocked somewhere

by StÃ©phane Ducasse

Hi guys this morning I could not work on that issue when I integrated some pending changes. I could not run the tests to their completion. Actions: - we should look at that. - I would like to modularize tests Test-XXX -> XXX-Tests following the seaside patterns - subclass from longTest the tests taking time to run. Stef

Nov. 1, 2010

Re: [Pharo-project] Syntax extension for continuations / class specific compiler

by Ralph Boland

>> On Mon, 1 Nov 2010, Igor Stasenko wrote: >> Hello, >> >> Out of curiosity, i tried to look how it would be hard to change >> parser to support extended continuation syntax. >> ... > This idea comes up every few years. This post sums up well the last > attempt: http://blog.3plus4.org/2007/08/30/message-chains/ . > I don't think it's worth changing the syntax for this. IMHO 1-2 pairs of > parentheses usually improve readability. More parenthesis is rarely > needed. Also mixing ;; with ; makes the code harder to understand. Try > this: self foo ; bar ;; baz ; foo ;; bar ; baz. > Note that the term 'continuation' means a totally different thing: > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Continuation . > Levente I was one of the apparently many who proposed an operator like this in the past. (I never discussed implementation and using continuations never occurred to me). My idea didn't seem popular then so I assume it won't fly now though, for the record, I would like to see such an operator. I prefer adding this syntax than the use of "asPipe" method (see http://blog.3plus4.org/2007/08/30/message-chains/) though I admit that asPipe is a very clever idea. I too dislike use of ";;" syntax; for me it conjures up the ugly "=" vs "==" syntax of C and subsequent languages that failed to fix this problem. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- One thing mentioned in the "asPipe" discussion is that each class can create it's own syntax/compiler. This strikes me as a really useful feature of Smalltalk. What I don't understand is: How do you do this? This feature is important enough that it should out in the open with proper documentation, some useful examples, etc. How about putting this information in Pharo by Example? If such a feature was available, and apparently it is, I would like to use it to be able write regular expressions or grammars as methods of a class and then have them be compiled from the editor (in the same way I do for smalltalk methods). Hopefully, I haven't upset too many by having two unrelated topics in a single post. Regards, Ralph Boland

Nov. 1, 2010

Re: [Pharo-project] [update 1.2] #12219

by Sven Van Caekenberghe

On 29 Oct 2010, at 18:14, Marcus Denker wrote: > Issue 3145: Glamourous Theme integration Great! However, something is wrong (unless it was intentional) with the collapse (minimize) and expand (maximize) icons in the window bar when you hover over them: both then show a box, in some strange fashion. Sven

Nov. 1, 2010

Re: [Pharo-project] Failing tests in 1.2

by Nicolas Cellier

2010/11/1 StÃ©phane Ducasse <stephane.ducasse(a)inria.fr>: > Thanks nicolas > > This is strange but I could not find the KernelTests-Nice.297 package in the inbox. > and I imagine that you save the slice so this looks like a bug I do not like :(... > > Stef > Oh sorry, it's probably me who aborted one of these http operations... You know the kind of data was latedata was latedata was latedata was latedata was late. I have uploaded my local copy now. Nicolas

Nov. 1, 2010

Re: [Pharo-project] Is there any package to manipulate excel files?

by Mariano Martinez Peck

There were people trying to use ODBC to talk to an excel file, but to "query". I don't think it would work for "manipulate" cheers mariano On Mon, Nov 1, 2010 at 12:08 PM, Guillermo Polito <guillermopolito(a)gmail.com > wrote: > It is a bad an awful real excel file :(. > > > On Mon, Nov 1, 2010 at 11:57 AM, Marcus Denker <marcus.denker(a)inria.fr>wrote: > >> >> On Nov 1, 2010, at 3:38 PM, Guillermo Polito wrote: >> >> > I was searching in squeaksource, and querying the posts in the list, but >> I couldn't find anything useful :S. >> >> if is is a comma-separated file (.csv) you can easily parse the lines with >> String>>#findTokens:escapedBy: >> >> Of course this does not help with real excel files.... which are quite >> complex (as one would imagine) >> http://sc.openoffice.org/excelfileformat.pdf >> >> Marcus >> >> -- >> Marcus Denker -- http://www.marcusdenker.de >> INRIA Lille -- Nord Europe. Team RMoD. >> >> >> >

Nov. 1, 2010

Re: [Pharo-project] XML package is barking at load time

by Johan Brichau

Hi Stef, This works without dog sounds: Gofer new squeaksource: 'MetacelloRepository'; package: 'ConfigurationOfXMLSupport'; load. ConfigurationOfXMLSupport load On 31 Oct 2010, at 10:55, stephane ducasse wrote: > Gofer new > squeaksource: 'XMLSupport'; > package: 'XML-Parser'; load. > > raise error because of tests not present. > > Did I do something wrong?

Nov. 1, 2010

Re: [Pharo-project] Is there any package to manipulate excel files?

by Guillermo Polito

It is a bad an awful real excel file :(. On Mon, Nov 1, 2010 at 11:57 AM, Marcus Denker <marcus.denker(a)inria.fr>wrote: > > On Nov 1, 2010, at 3:38 PM, Guillermo Polito wrote: > > > I was searching in squeaksource, and querying the posts in the list, but > I couldn't find anything useful :S. > > if is is a comma-separated file (.csv) you can easily parse the lines with > String>>#findTokens:escapedBy: > > Of course this does not help with real excel files.... which are quite > complex (as one would imagine) > http://sc.openoffice.org/excelfileformat.pdf > > Marcus > > -- > Marcus Denker -- http://www.marcusdenker.de > INRIA Lille -- Nord Europe. Team RMoD. > > >

Nov. 1, 2010

Re: [Pharo-project] Is there any package to manipulate excel files?

by Marcus Denker

On Nov 1, 2010, at 3:38 PM, Guillermo Polito wrote: > I was searching in squeaksource, and querying the posts in the list, but I couldn't find anything useful :S. if is is a comma-separated file (.csv) you can easily parse the lines with String>>#findTokens:escapedBy: Of course this does not help with real excel files.... which are quite complex (as one would imagine) http://sc.openoffice.org/excelfileformat.pdf Marcus -- Marcus Denker -- http://www.marcusdenker.de INRIA Lille -- Nord Europe. Team RMoD.

Nov. 1, 2010