February 2014 - Pharo-dev - lists.pharo.org

Re: [Pharo-dev] [ANN] Spec documentation in PFTE book finished

by Sven Van Caekenberghe

Thanks a lot, Johan & Ben, this is great work ! On 12 Feb 2014, at 16:08, Johan Fabry <jfabry(a)dcc.uchile.cl> wrote: > Hi all, > > I am happy to announce that Ben and I finished the documentation of Spec for the Pharo For The Enterprise book. This documentation is up-to-date with the latest version of Spec, and is focused towards people wanting to use it and even extend it (in contrast to the academic papers which are â¦ academic ;-) ). I hope that this text will help all the people that are building UIs in Pharo, and it will clear up any doubts that they may have. > > The chapter is available in source form from the GitHub project of the PFTE book: https://github.com/SquareBracketAssociates/PharoForTheEnterprise-english > > The easiest way to read the chapter is from the continuous integration server, which produces a html file of the chapter here: > https://ci.inria.fr/pharo-contribution/job/PharoForTheEnterprise/lastSucces… > (The same server also produces pdf and markdown files, but there are some strange artifacts there, currently. I guess this will be cleared up in the future) > > We tried our best to make it understandable and complete, but if you have any doubts or comments please do not hesitate to let us know !! Ben prefers Github apparently, but if you are oldskool like me you can also send a mail (privately or to the mailing list). > > Now it's time to build some cool user interfaces! :-) > > ---> Save our in-boxes! http://emailcharter.org <--- > > Johan Fabry - http://pleiad.cl/~jfabry > PLEIAD lab - Computer Science Department (DCC) - University of Chile > >

Feb. 12, 2014

Re: [Pharo-dev] Simulator in Pharo 3

by phil＠highoctane.be

Awesome. I'll try your code. And a 1.2 to see a screen :-) One more step to VM understanding here! Phil On Wednesday, February 12, 2014, Stefan Marr <smalltalk(a)stefan-marr.de> wrote: > Hi: > > Below you see the result of today, the simulator for the StackInterpreter > running in a Pharo 3 image. > > Over the last years, people have been tinkering with the simulator from > time to time, but I have the feeling everyone gave up before the thing was > fully functioning, and not even the trivial things have found their way > back into the VM code base. > I am aware that Phil was busy with it recently, but I think there was also > someone else posting notes here. > > Would be great if those people could send me their change sets so that I > can try getting everything working again. > > As you can see in the screenshot, the simulator loads up properly, and > executes the first 10,000,000 bytecodes. > Which is enough to make it notice that a primitive fails, and to pop up > the error dialog. > However, it is a Pharo 1.2 image. Later images trigger some bug, I haven't > identified yet. They execute code, but don't manage to bring up the display. > > > Thanks to having a unified code repository, everything I got so far (minus > a few small changes) is here: > https://github.com/smarr/pharo-vm/tree/fixes/simulator-bit-rot > > More to come soon. > Best regards > Stefan > > > -- > Stefan Marr > INRIA Lille - Nord Europe > http://stefan-marr.de/research/ > > > > -- --- Philippe Back Visible Performance Improvements Mob: +32(0) 478 650 140 | Fax: +32 (0) 70 408 027 Mail:phil@highoctane.be | Web: http://philippeback.eu Blog: http://philippeback.be | Twitter: @philippeback Youtube: http://www.youtube.com/user/philippeback/videos High Octane SPRL rue cour Boisacq 101 | 1301 Bierges | Belgium Pharo Consortium Member - http://consortium.pharo.org/ Featured on the Software Process and Measurement Cast - http://spamcast.libsyn.com Sparx Systems Enterprise Architect and Ability Engineering EADocX Value Added Reseller

Feb. 12, 2014

Monkey Business - Please integrate issue 12852

by Torsten Bergmann

The monkey lamented on problems (merge conflict) which is strange. Nonetheless I double checked and Christophe confirmed the change for Versionner, so please integrate: https://pharo.fogbugz.com/f/cases/12852 Thanks in advance T.

Feb. 12, 2014

Simulator in Pharo 3

by Stefan Marr

Hi: Below you see the result of today, the simulator for the StackInterpreter running in a Pharo 3 image. Over the last years, people have been tinkering with the simulator from time to time, but I have the feeling everyone gave up before the thing was fully functioning, and not even the trivial things have found their way back into the VM code base. I am aware that Phil was busy with it recently, but I think there was also someone else posting notes here. Would be great if those people could send me their change sets so that I can try getting everything working again. As you can see in the screenshot, the simulator loads up properly, and executes the first 10,000,000 bytecodes. Which is enough to make it notice that a primitive fails, and to pop up the error dialog. However, it is a Pharo 1.2 image. Later images trigger some bug, I havenât identified yet. They execute code, but donât manage to bring up the display. Thanks to having a unified code repository, everything I got so far (minus a few small changes) is here: https://github.com/smarr/pharo-vm/tree/fixes/simulator-bit-rot More to come soon. Best regards Stefan -- Stefan Marr INRIA Lille - Nord Europe http://stefan-marr.de/research/

Feb. 12, 2014

Re: [Pharo-dev] Playing an mp3

by kmo

As far as I know pharoSound only plays AIF and WAV. Phratch certanly has MP3 playing abilities - but I've only tried it on Linux and MP3s do not play. -- View this message in context: http://forum.world.st/Playing-an-mp3-tp4742737p4743093.html Sent from the Pharo Smalltalk Developers mailing list archive at Nabble.com.

Feb. 12, 2014

Re: [Pharo-dev] Why Smalltalk is not popular?

by Marcus Denker

On 12 Feb 2014, at 20:24, Sean P. DeNigris <sean(a)clipperadams.com> wrote: > Igor Stasenko wrote >> Why Smalltalk is not popular? >> because it's not. > > That can't be rightâ¦ I'm going to have to check your math ;) > > p.s. I was surprised we were able to keep this thread to so few posts. > Discussing this question is Smalltalk's version of discussing the weather in > elevators - pointless, but irresistible... > Honestly it was fun in 1999â¦ it gets boring after a while ;-) Popularity is overrated. What you want is just a size that the community can sustain itself. To the current size this is âjustâ a factor 10 more, I think. Marcus

Feb. 12, 2014

Re: [Pharo-dev] Why Smalltalk is not popular?

by Sean P. DeNigris

Igor Stasenko wrote > Why Smalltalk is not popular? > because it's not. That can't be rightâ¦ I'm going to have to check your math ;) p.s. I was surprised we were able to keep this thread to so few posts. Discussing this question is Smalltalk's version of discussing the weather in elevators - pointless, but irresistible... ----- Cheers, Sean -- View this message in context: http://forum.world.st/Why-Smalltalk-is-not-popular-tp4743009p4743091.html Sent from the Pharo Smalltalk Developers mailing list archive at Nabble.com.

Feb. 12, 2014

Re: [Pharo-dev] Why Smalltalk is not popular?

by Sebastian Sastre

Will could be a push or wishful thinking so I agree on that it will not help directly. Maybe is time to watch Merchants of Cool ? https://archive.org/details/PbsFrontlineMerchantsOfCool It has everything to do with convenience and making teens fell "super powers" If enhancing the product's usability is under your control, then you might be able to manufacture some cool And thatâs a question that really contributes to the question Unless you give a shit about UX/UI to the next generation of newcomers of course sebastian o/ On Feb 12, 2014, at 4:45 PM, Esteban A. Maringolo <emaringolo(a)gmail.com> wrote: > 2014-02-12 15:10 GMT-03:00 Igor Stasenko <siguctua(a)gmail.com>: >> too bad, this is not forum, where you can stick certain topics on top.. >> because this one reoccurring on a regular basis and contributes nothing to >> answering >> the question :) >> >> but let me try to answer >> >> Why Smalltalk is not popular? > >> because it's not. > > This time I agree with Igor "extremely literal" answer. > > Popularity is like "being cool", a social consequence out of your > control (a fad most of the times), you can't "turn cool" with pure > will. > > But there are some attributes that might put you in the "cool > technology" list some day: > * Simplicity > * Reliability > * Performance > * Modernicity > * Interoperability > * Ease of use > > Among others. > > I think that if you focus in what you do, do it the best you can, get > feedback from "foreigners" and work hard, ceteris paribus, the success > is inevitable. > > Regards, > > > > > > > Esteban A. Maringolo >

Feb. 12, 2014

Re: [Pharo-dev] Why Smalltalk is not popular?

by Esteban A. Maringolo

2014-02-12 15:10 GMT-03:00 Igor Stasenko <siguctua(a)gmail.com>: > too bad, this is not forum, where you can stick certain topics on top.. > because this one reoccurring on a regular basis and contributes nothing to > answering > the question :) > > but let me try to answer > > Why Smalltalk is not popular? > because it's not. This time I agree with Igor "extremely literal" answer. Popularity is like "being cool", a social consequence out of your control (a fad most of the times), you can't "turn cool" with pure will. But there are some attributes that might put you in the "cool technology" list some day: * Simplicity * Reliability * Performance * Modernicity * Interoperability * Ease of use Among others. I think that if you focus in what you do, do it the best you can, get feedback from "foreigners" and work hard, ceteris paribus, the success is inevitable. Regards, Esteban A. Maringolo

Feb. 12, 2014

[pharo-project/pharo-core]

by GitHub

Branch: refs/tags/30755 Home: https://github.com/pharo-project/pharo-core

Feb. 12, 2014