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[Pharo-project] Squeak VM+FT2Plugin, all Pharo 1.0 rc3 tests green
by laurent laffont March 31, 2010

March 31, 2010

Hi, Finally I've managed to build squeak vm rev. 2135 (current stable) with FT2Plugin which makes all tests green on Pharo 1.0 rc3 image........ on my machine :) If some Linux users can test it on their distro, thanks. The clean binary archive: http://lolgzs.free.fr/pharo/squeak-vm/Squeak-3.11.3.2135-pharo-bin.tar.gz The generated source archive: http://lolgzs.free.fr/pharo/squeak-vm/Squeak-3.11.3.2135-pharo-src.tar.gz PharoCore-1.0 + configured VMMaker 1.2 image (for new vm builders, to have a known working base): http://lolgzs.free.fr/pharo/squeak-vm/PharoCore-1.0-VMMaker-1.2.tar.gz To build from source archive: ======================= wget http://lolgzs.free.fr/pharo/squeak-vm/Squeak-3.11.3.2135-pharo-src.tar.gz tar -xvzf Squeak-3.11.3.2135-pharo-src.tar.gz cd Squeak-3.11.3.2135-pharo-src/ mkdir build && cd build ../unix/cmake/configure make sudo make install Internal plugins: ====================== UUIDPlugin External plugins: ====================== ADPCMCodecPlugin AioPlugin AsynchFilePlugin B2DPlugin B3DAcceleratorPlugin BMPReadWriterPlugin BitBltPlugin CroquetPlugin DSAPrims DropPlugin FFTPlugin FT2Plugin FileCopyPlugin FilePlugin FloatArrayPlugin FloatMathPlugin GeniePlugin HostWindowPlugin JPEGReadWriter2Plugin JPEGReaderPlugin JoystickTabletPlugin Klatt LargeIntegers LocalePlugin MIDIPlugin Matrix2x3Plugin MiscPrimitivePlugin Mpeg3Plugin QuicktimePlugin RePlugin SecurityPlugin SerialPlugin SocketPlugin SoundCodecPrims SoundGenerationPlugin SoundPlugin Squeak3D SqueakFFIPrims StarSqueakPlugin SurfacePlugin UnixOSProcessPlugin XDisplayControlPlugin ZipPlugin Fun story: if you don't have SecurityPlugin, LocaleTest>>testFontFullName deletes your image :) testFontFullName "self debug: #testFontFullName" | env dir | env := (Locale isoLanguage: 'ja') languageEnvironment. dir := FileDirectory on: SecurityManager default untrustedUserDirectory. [dir recursiveDelete] <-------------- Cool !! on: Error do: [:e | e]. env fontFullName. self assert: dir exists Cheers, Laurent Laffont

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[Pharo-project] Mac Carbon VM 4.2.3b1 sound recording busted
by John M McIntosh March 31, 2010

March 31, 2010

>Mac Carbon VM 4.2.3b1 sound recording busted Must always remember to test (lot more) things after applying VMMaker changes. I'll have a 4.2.4b1 VM in a few days after some dust settles. But for now if you hit the SoundRecorder record button in your squeak.image it will crash. -- =========================================================================== John M. McIntosh <johnmci(a)smalltalkconsulting.com> Twitter: squeaker68882 Corporate Smalltalk Consulting Ltd. http://www.smalltalkconsulting.com ===========================================================================

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[Pharo-project] Fluid menus.... wish list of K. Beck.
by StÃ©phane Ducasse March 30, 2010

March 30, 2010

Begin forwarded message: > From: Kent Beck <kentb(a)earthlink.net> > Date: March 30, 2010 9:55:03 PM GMT+02:00 > To: StÃ©phane Ducasse <stephane.ducasse(a)inria.fr> > Subject: Re: feedback on the bees book > > Please do forward my idea to the list. I'm available for consultation with whoever is implementing it. The key seems to me to begin with the goal--a more fluid programming experience--and work backwards to measures that approximate "fluidity" and a way of rapidly experimenting and getting getting concrete feedback. > > Cheers, > > Kent > > On Mar 30, 2010, at 12:29 PM, StÃ©phane Ducasse wrote: > >>> >>> That's one of the deep lessons of software development--the tortoise beats the hare. Every day you make the software better, it gets better. >> >> exact, so sadly. Smalltalkers got trapped in their nice little boxes and now lua is popping up as well as ruby or python. So many missed opportunities >> and total lack of vision. ... >>> I do enjoy Pharo. I find that it's still quite awkward with a Mac, from a click path perspective (too many gestures necessary for the common actions), >>> but I don't have any concrete suggestions so I suppose I shouldn't complain. >> >>> I don't remember exactly which operations are hard to get to, except perhaps "extract method". I'd love to have Pharo instrumented so every menu item was tracked, then do a global optimization to reduce the number of gestures necessary to operate the interface. >> >> kent if you let me forward this mail to pharo may be somebody will do it just because you say so. >> >>> I suppose for completeness you'd also need to track the time between when a menu popped up and when the item was selected. This would avoid the Squeak problem of endlessly growing menus. I wonder if anyone has done this kind of quantitative UI design optimization before... >>> >>> Too many fun things to do. >> >> > Yes ;)

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[Pharo-project] The Windows VM
by Torsten Bergmann March 30, 2010

March 30, 2010

>No, I don't think so. I don't know who did it I did it and will redo a new one based on the new 4.0 hopefully this week to create a new installer. Is the new 1.0 dev-image already in place? However - the changes from Andreas should only affect Squeak and there should also be no problem in still using the 3.11.8. VM Bye T. -- GMX DSL: Internet, Telefon und Entertainment fÃ¼r nur 19,99 EUR/mtl.! http://portal.gmx.net/de/go/dsl02

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[Pharo-project] [update 1.1] #11301
by StÃ©phane Ducasse March 30, 2010

March 30, 2010

11301 ----- - Issue 2183: Better MC feedback on HttpRepository (from squeak) - Issue 2191: sorted: and friends (from squeak) Stef

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[Pharo-project] [update 1.1] #11300
by StÃ©phane Ducasse March 30, 2010

March 30, 2010

- Issue 2236: Finalization of multiple resources. Thanks Henrik - Issue 1339: Pharo beta crashes with ODBC, perhaps FFI FFI fix for VM crashes which might happen after loading, and fields may be inproperly initialized... Thanks Henrik - CollectionsTest thanks Hilaire - Issue 2229: speedUp DecompilerTest. Thanks levente. Stef

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[Pharo-project] IWST 2010 Call for Papers
by Michael Haupt March 30, 2010

March 30, 2010

* Apologies for multiple copies. * Call for Papers International Workshop on Smalltalk Technologies (IWST) 2010 co-located with European Smalltalk User Group Conference (ESUG) Barcelona, Spain, September 11-17, 2010 ** Description The goal of the IWST workshop series is to create and foster a forum around advances or experience in Smalltalk. We welcome contributions on all aspects, theoretical as well as practical, of Smalltalk-related topics. There are two possible kinds of submissions, which must be in ACM SIGPLAN style: * Research papers (up to 10 pages). Submissions in this category will be rigorously reviewed, and accepted papers will be published in the ACM Digital Library (ACM SIGPLAN has approved, the final ACM approval is pending). * Demonstration papers (up to 4 pages). Submissions in this category will not be published in the ACM Digital Library, but will be available for download from the workshop web page. ** Submission and Reviewing Process The EasyChair submission web site is at http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=iwst10. Authors will be given the opportunity to comment on reviewers' work by providing feedback on the reviews. For this purpose, a questionnaire will be sent to authors. Their answers will be evaluated anonymously, and feedback will be handed on to reviewers. ** Important Dates Submission: May 14, 2010 (Samoa time) Feedback: June 28, 2010 ESUG Early Registration Deadline: July 9, 2010 Workshop: September 12, 2010, Barcelona, Spain ** Programme Committee Co-Chairs: Michael Haupt, Hasso-Plattner-Institut, University of Potsdam, Germany Robert Hirschfeld, Hasso-Plattner-Institut, University of Potsdam, Germany PC Members: Gabriela Arevalo, Universidad Nacional de La Plata, Argentina Johannes Brauer, NORDAKADEMIE, Germany Johan Brichau, UniversitÃ© catholique de Louvain, Belgium Marcus Denker, INRIA Lille - Nord Europe, France Theo D'Hondt, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium StÃ©phane Ducasse, INRIA Lille - Nord Europe, France James Foster, GemStone Systems, Inc., USA Andy Kellens, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium Andreas Raab, Teleplace Inc., USA Lukas Renggli, Software Composition Group (SCG), University of Bern, Switzerland Randal L. Schwartz, Stonehenge Consulting Services, Inc. Dave Ungar, IBM Research

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[Pharo-project] The Windows VM
by Mariano Martinez Peck March 30, 2010

March 30, 2010

Hi. I have just tested the Windows VM availables and tested the 1 tinyBenchmarks and running all tests of PharoDev RC3. I tested with this Windows VMs: 1) The one that it is in pharo website (PharoVM-Win32-3.11.8): 2) The other one from pharo website (exupery-vm-0.15-win32): 3) THe new one that Andreas released today (SqueakVM-Win32-4.0.1-bin) 1) vm\SqueakVM-Win32-4.0.1-bin\ has freetype 1 tinyBenchmarks '404104183 bytecodes/sec; 11914092 sends/sec' '363120567 bytecodes/sec; 10946039 sends/sec' '390839694 bytecodes/sec; 12597221 sends/sec' '346179851 bytecodes/sec; 9996295 sends/sec' 1 gofer test fails 2) exupery-vm-0.15-win32 doesnt have freetype. Unacceptable for Pharo. 1 tinyBenchmarks '365714285 bytecodes/sec; 9935342 sends/sec' '365975696 bytecodes/sec; 10435290 sends/sec' '349011588 bytecodes/sec; 16777208 sends/sec' '339973439 bytecodes/sec; 11292844 sends/sec' Two RB test with errors 3) SqueakVM-Win32-4.0.1-bin has freetype 1 tinyBenchmarks '353835521 bytecodes/sec; 11294326 sends/sec' '415922014 bytecodes/sec; 12319712 sends/sec' '369675090 bytecodes/sec; 11149338 sends/sec' '373177842 bytecodes/sec; 9858402 sends/sec' all tests geen We suggestion is to remove the Exupery Vm from the pharo website. The new version 4.1 doesn't seem to be improvements in speed and from what I read about Andreas comment, it only fixes problems for SqueakMap, which was removed in Pharo, and a change in the close event of the windows. I would only let for download the PharoVM-Win32-3.11.8 Cheers Mariano

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[Pharo-project] theme menuFont
by Hilaire Fernandes March 29, 2010

March 29, 2010

Gary, I read from you Polymorph example (toolbar and menu), your are forcing the menu font to theme menuFont. Is it still necessary to do so ? win := StandardWindow new. fileMenu := win newMenu. fileMenu addToggle: 'Open' translated target: nil "would be model" selector: #openFile. fileMenu lastItem font: win theme menuFont; icon: MenuIcons smallOpenIcon; Hilaire

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[Pharo-project] [Preview] Help System with new model (now also for Squeak)
by Torsten Bergmann March 29, 2010

March 29, 2010

Michael Haupt wrote: >marvelous, thank you. :-) >I really appreciate the simplicity of the underlying model. Yes - and since the model is simple we can fill it with nearly any information. Try this: |topic day url sub| topic := HelpTopic named: 'Last week on Squeak IRC'. 0 to: 7 do: [:index | day := (Date today subtractDays: index) printFormat: #(3 2 1 $. 1 2 2). url := 'http://tunes.org/~nef/logs/squeak/' , day. sub := HelpTopic title: day contents: (HTTPLoader default retrieveContentsFor: url) contents. topic addSubtopic: sub. ]. HelpBrowser openOn: topic Have fun T. -- GMX DSL: Internet, Telefon und Entertainment fÃ¼r nur 19,99 EUR/mtl.! http://portal.gmx.net/de/go/dsl02

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