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

Re: [Pharo-project] Pharo 1.4
by Marcus Denker Aug. 29, 2011

Aug. 29, 2011

On Aug 22, 2011, at 1:34 PM, Ilmari Vacklin wrote: > On Monday, August 22, 2011 1:09:28 PM UTC+3, Alexandre Bergel wrote: > Hi! > I now switched to Pharo 1.4. It is much more usable than 1.3 in my opinion. > I like the code completion tool, more stable than ocompletion. > > I'd be interested in testing a new code completion tool too. I downloaded the unstable image from pharo-project.org, but its workspaces and the browser do not have code completion. Do I need to install additional packages? > 1.4 has currently no enhanced completion installed. This issue has the Gofer expression to load Ocompletion: http://code.google.com/p/pharo/issues/detail?id=4622 But maybe we should use Ecompletion instead? Or nothing? -- Marcus Denker -- http://marcusdenker.de

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[Pharo-project] Headless image hanging
by Bernat Romagosa Aug. 29, 2011

Aug. 29, 2011

Hi list, I think I asked this a while ago but never managed to find a solution, so here we go: I have an image running under a screen session in my server, it's running my simple blog written in Iliad and nothing else. The image is a Pharo 1.2.1 on a Croquet Closure Cog VM [CoInterpreter VMMaker.oscog-eem.75] machine, the server is a VPSLink slice with Debian 5 on it. For a very long while now I've been experiencing a weird behaviour. The image runs flawlessly and fast for a couple of days, then it hangs without any apparent reason, just stops working overnight, and the only output I get in the console is index >= 0 && index <= numSignalRequests 133 repeatedly, and after that the website can't be accessed neither can I reach the image via VNC, so the only solution is to kill the process and fire it up again... Any clues? Is this a known bug? Cheers, -- Bernat Romagosa.

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[Pharo-project] Omnibrowser in 1.4
by Torsten Bergmann Aug. 29, 2011

Aug. 29, 2011

>Personally I wonder what the goal of Nautilus is? Dont know either - but according to the SqS page http://squeaksource.com/Nautilus/ it a new browser based on RPackage and Announcements with fancy goodies like groups and multi-selections, ... and it will be based on Ring. >IMHO fixed lists, a text field and ugly buttons >do not cut it anymore. Did any Smalltalker ever work with XCode, >Eclipse, VisualStudio, ...? Yes, there were times when other IDE's got their ideas from Smalltalk and I think now we should look at some ideas from mainstream IDE's. I especially like the configurable perspective/views concept, multitabs and predefined browsers of Eclipse. The only thing I miss in these Java browsers is method categorization and I still hate scrolling in long *.java files ;) Bye T. -- Empfehlen Sie GMX DSL Ihren Freunden und Bekannten und wir belohnen Sie mit bis zu 50,- Euro! https://freundschaftswerbung.gmx.de

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Re: [Pharo-project] Halt
by DeNigris Sean Aug. 29, 2011

Aug. 29, 2011

What is the purpose of #haltIf: aBlock? Right now, you can pass any of the following to Object>>haltIf: - aBlock taking an optional argument which is automatically set to the receiver of #halt - aSelector which looks up the call chain and halts if present - aBoolean So, whatever the condition is, it seems like you should be able to evaluate it in the calling context. When would you ever need to use a block? Can we eliminate the block behavior? Or, who has a great war story about blocks saving them from imminent doom... Thx. Sean

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Re: [Pharo-project] Halt
by Marcus Denker Aug. 29, 2011

Aug. 29, 2011

On Aug 28, 2011, at 7:24 PM, Sean P. DeNigris wrote: > > 2. Using Object to halt causes bloat, and doesn't buy much (except that's > how we've always done it). Back in the days, we were virtually crucified for introducing the Beeper class along the same reasoning... The Beeper actually got very depressed due to having his very existance being questioned. "I am just the result of a random refactoring" he was complaining "maybe I should just just delete myself and everyone will be happy". (you know, reflection *is* dangerous! There has been a lot of talk to make reflection more secure... for a reason!). To cheer him up, I gave him the lead role in a real, peer reviewed Paper: http://scg.unibe.ch/archive/papers/Denk08bMetaContextLNBIP.pdf The Beeper thus was the first Class to be really "Meta" in the history of Objects. What a thrill. In an interview, the Beeper said: "You know, being meta is hard to decribe... Classes claim to be Meta all the time. But I doubt they ever really are Meta. Being Meta is special. The whole System looks different when meta!" ;-) -- Marcus Denker -- http://marcusdenker.de

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Re: [Pharo-project] [ANN] glamorous inspector
by Tudor Girba Aug. 29, 2011

Aug. 29, 2011

Hi, There are a couple of improvements related to the GT Inspector: - A morph has a dedicated submorphs tab with which we can inspect the tree of morphs (see attached picture) - A parse tree has a dedicated view that provides a tree of RB nodes and previews the information as a selection on the method source code (see the attached picture) - On the top right there is a refresh button to update the inspector (it does not happen automatically) - Damien Cassou fixed the "do it" support in the evaluator so now you can use the default keys as in the workspace - Some more relevant menu items for manipulation Cheers, Doru On 24 Aug 2011, at 11:12, Tudor Girba wrote: > The GT Inspector is now available by default in the Moose image (CMD+Shift+i). > > It seems to work quite well. > > Cheers, > Doru > > > On 22 Aug 2011, at 22:59, StÃ©phane Ducasse wrote: > >> Thanks doru :) >> >> Stef >> >> On Aug 22, 2011, at 7:59 PM, Tudor Girba wrote: >> >>> Hi, >>> >>> I am happy to announce the first release of the Glamorous Inspector, a new browser for inspecting objects based on Glamour. >>> >>> More information, including a demo and screenshots, can be found here: >>> http://www.humane-assessment.com/blog/glamorous-inspector-for-smalltalk >>> >>> To download it follow the instructions from: >>> http://www.moosetechnology.org/tools/glamoroustoolkit >>> >>> You can use it by: >>> 1. "GTInspector openOn: someObject", or >>> 2. "GTInspector registerToolsOn: Smalltalk tools" and then use CMD+I (explore) >>> >>> Please let your opinion be heard :) >>> >>> Cheers, >>> Doru >>> >>> p.s. Have fun at ESUG :) >>> >>> -- >>> www.tudorgirba.com >>> >>> "Every successful trip needs a suitable vehicle." >>> >>> >> > > -- > www.tudorgirba.com > > "In a world where everything is moving ever faster, > one might have better chances to win by moving slower." > > > -- www.tudorgirba.com "Some battles are better lost than fought."

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Re: [Pharo-project] Halt
by Marcus Denker Aug. 29, 2011

Aug. 29, 2011

On Aug 29, 2011, at 11:48 AM, Sean P. DeNigris wrote: > > Sean P. DeNigris wrote: >> >> 3. Is anyone using the versions that take a string message (e.g. >> #haltOnce:). A halt brings you into a debugger, so is the extra info worth >> the added complexity? p.s. right now, the versions are cut-and-pastes of >> each other >> > > What about the versions that take a string message? Can we remove them since > we have the call stack open in a debugger anyway? > Yes, I would say remove. -- Marcus Denker -- http://marcusdenker.de

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Re: [Pharo-project] Halt
by Marcus Denker Aug. 28, 2011

Aug. 28, 2011

On Aug 28, 2011, at 8:10 PM, Lukas Renggli wrote: > We have a class Halt and the class-side is empty. This seems to be the > right place to hold all the code in the protocols #debugging and > #debuggin-haltonce of Object. With a few renames we could get a really > nice DSL: > > Halt now. > Halt if: a = 2. > Halt once. > Nice! I want that. This would even allow for making the #haltIf: less overloaded and provide a explicit control flow based halt with something like this: Halt selector: #DoIt. or maybe better: Halt ifCalledFrom: #testMyWonderfulBuggyTest Marcus -- Marcus Denker -- http://marcusdenker.de

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[Pharo-project] What does FixedWaitingToBePharoed mean?
by Sean P. DeNigris Aug. 28, 2011

Aug. 28, 2011

-- View this message in context: http://forum.world.st/What-does-FixedWaitingToBePharoed-mean-tp3774520p3774… Sent from the Pharo Smalltalk mailing list archive at Nabble.com.

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[Pharo-project] PharoInbox broken?
by Sean P. DeNigris Aug. 28, 2011

Aug. 28, 2011

I'm getting an authentication error when trying to upload to PharoInbox and it is listed read-only on sqs. Sean -- View this message in context: http://forum.world.st/PharoInbox-broken-tp3774478p3774478.html Sent from the Pharo Smalltalk mailing list archive at Nabble.com.

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