October 2011 - Pharo-dev - lists.pharo.org

[Pharo-project] Is FS loadable in 1.3?
by Sean P. DeNigris Nov. 1, 2011

Nov. 1, 2011

Thanks. Sean -- View this message in context: http://forum.world.st/Is-FS-loadable-in-1-3-tp3961499p3961499.html Sent from the Pharo Smalltalk mailing list archive at Nabble.com.

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[Pharo-project] Athens news :)
by StÃ©phane Ducasse Nov. 1, 2011

Nov. 1, 2011

Hi guys I asked igor to do a pre pre pre pre release of athens and then perform regular ones so that you can follow what he is doing and get excited. Because this is getting along and will open a lot of perspective. The idea is that igor is working since september on Athens: a new canvas and a smalltalk backend to support it. The challenge are: - how can we get a zoomable vector graphics system? with for examples back end in Cairo/opengl. - what are the good abstractions to support that? Igor is then working on a "simple" text model and canvas so that we can emit instructions for vector graphics back-ends. Stef

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Re: [Pharo-project] [ANN 1.3] One-Click #13315
by Marcus Denker Nov. 1, 2011

Nov. 1, 2011

On Oct 30, 2011, at 5:31 PM, Ben Coman wrote: > Pharo 1.4 works okay, which is great the crash is avoided, but with only 8804 tests versus 9757 in Pharo 1.3 it is unclear whether: > 1. Bug has been fixed in VM. > 2. System Code has been removed from image > 3. Test Code exercising the crash has been removed from image > Ideally the problem doesn't just go away by itself :) otherwise it might be scenario 2. or 3. above rather than 1 :) > > However I then reran Pharo-1.3 image with no crash - so a null experiment. > > For your records, I did the following... > a. extracted Pharo-1.3-13315-OneClick.zip > b. extracted Pharo-1.4-14210.zip into the Resource folder, > c. renamed pharo.exe & pharo.ini to pharo14.exe & pharo14.ini as described in my previous report > d. modified pharo14.ini with ImageFile=Contents\Resources\pharo-1.4.image > e. ran pharo14.exe, opened TestRunner and clicked <Run Selected>, then later clicked <Run Selected> a second time. > f. Quit > g. modified pharo14.ini with ImageFile=Contents\Resources\pharo.image > h. ran pharo14.exe, opened TestRunner and clicked <Run Selected> > i. Quit What would be interesting: -> Does it happen Core 1.3? -> Does it happen with other VMs? Marcus -- Marcus Denker -- http://marcusdenker.de

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[Pharo-project] Consortium news
by StÃ©phane Ducasse Oct. 31, 2011

Oct. 31, 2011

Hi guys SInce INRIA accepted to pay one engineer around the pharo consortium we will hire esteban lorenzano for a year. We are excited by that! I should do a lot of paper work but this is really cool. For the consortium - inria law oriented people are designing a "CAML" like consortium text - Marcus is setting up mailing-list and we will make public the names of the companies that are participating. - We will discuss the prices and modality. Stef

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[Pharo-project] The rubber progress bar is stretching too fast
by Nicolas Cellier Oct. 31, 2011

Oct. 31, 2011

Do you really like this new progress bar that resizes at high frequency? It's funny 5 minutes, but hardly any longer... Shouldn't we restrict update frequency to some number? maybe 2Hz or a bit more... Higher frequencies are not readable, and 2Hz is enough to show that progress occurs. Could we reduce downsizing frequency too? Between 0 and 0.5 Hz would be well enough to my taste. Any better idea? Nicolas

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[Pharo-project] DateAndTime vs TimeStamp
by Sven Van Caekenberghe Oct. 31, 2011

Oct. 31, 2011

Hi, I am used to using TimeStamp as my default 'point-in-time' class, although it differs only very slightly from DateAndTime. This was not really a very explicit decision, it just sounded/felt right. Now that I am having some timezone issue to sort out, the way DataAndTime's are printed is more helpful. So the question is: why do we have these two, very similar, classes ? Do we need them ? I vaguely remember there is a Seaside directive: do not just TimeStamp (maybe only for portability) ? In short, what is the rationale behind this situation ? Thx, Sven

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[Pharo-project] Still more problems with underscore
by Mariano Martinez Peck Oct. 31, 2011

Oct. 31, 2011

Hi guys. I still have problems with underscore in Pharo 1.3. I want to use underscore in both ways: in selectors and as assigment. If I do: Scanner allowUnderscoreAsAssignment: true. then it works in selectrs but not in assigment. If I do String allowUnderscore. then it works for assigment but stops working for selector. can someone help me to fix this? thanks -- Mariano http://marianopeck.wordpress.com

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[Pharo-project] readFrom: vs readFromString:
by Nicolas Cellier Oct. 31, 2011

Oct. 31, 2011

There is a huge mess in #readFrom: implementation. Some classes will signal trailing characters as a bug, some other won't and will simply leave the stream positioned after the valid part. I propose to change this behaviour uniformly: - readFrom: aStream will never fail on trailing chars (hey, it's a stream, it's up to sender to interpret the tail) - readFromString: aString will always forbid trailing char (it's not a stream, so this garbage is most probably an error and cannot be ignored silently) What do you think ? Nicolas

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[Pharo-project] Is RPackage dead?
by Torsten Bergmann Oct. 31, 2011

Oct. 31, 2011

hi stef, I think I'm not the only one who didnt follow so close as you, Marcus, Igor, ... so please could you explain more in detail: - Problems mentioned with RPackage, Nautilus - why throw RPackage away and get stuck with the old browsers? I thought getting real packages was one of our most important tasks, so I could not understand you prefer solution A? Thanks T. -- NEU: FreePhone - 0ct/min Handyspartarif mit Geld-zurÃ¼ck-Garantie! Jetzt informieren: http://www.gmx.net/de/go/freephone

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[Pharo-project] When using Autotest + TilingWindowManager, the sarch dialog is unaccesible
by Mariano Martinez Peck Oct. 31, 2011

Oct. 31, 2011

Hi (alain?). When using Autotest + TilingWindowManager , if I then I am in the system browser and press cmd + f, the search dialog is too much in the top left of the screen. I cannot type in there, and I cannot move it. Look the attached screenshot. So... any ideas how we can fix that? what about just giving focus (bring to front) to the search windows just after opening it ? thanks in advance, -- Mariano http://marianopeck.wordpress.com

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