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

Slice 13239: documented some methods
by Alexandre Bergel May 2, 2014

May 2, 2014

hi! I have committed Slide 13239 in the 30inbox. It contains some comments for RPackage. Cheers, Alexandre -- _,.;:~^~:;._,.;:~^~:;._,.;:~^~:;._,.;:~^~:;._,.;: Alexandre Bergel http://www.bergel.eu ^~:;._,.;:~^~:;._,.;:~^~:;._,.;:~^~:;._,.;:~^~:;.

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download from website: missing .sources file
by Johan Brichau May 2, 2014

May 2, 2014

Hi guys, Really nice job on the new website. Congrats! Though this one keeps popping up over and over again: the .sources file is _not_ available for download from the website. If you download the vm and the image, you still need to get the .sources from somewhere else. It would be really good to fix that. cheers Johan

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Smalltalk package for ATOM
by Yuriy Tymchuk May 2, 2014

May 2, 2014

Hi everyone, just want to let you know that Iâve generated a smalltalk-language package for ATOM editor from some existing TextMate bundle. This can be useful if you are reading of editing .st files. And what is cool about ATOM, you can just search for âsmalltalkâ and click âInstallâ on the found package: Cheers. Uko

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[ANN] Pharo3 Dark Theme is available
by Esteban Lorenzano May 2, 2014

May 2, 2014

Dark Theme for Pharo 3 ================== So, I finally took some time and hacked a Dark Theme for Pharo 3: How you install it? You need to execute this script: â1. You need this because otherwise Gofer merge becomes dumb :P" MCRepositoryGroup default addRepository: (MCSmalltalkhubRepository owner: 'estebanlm' project: 'Pharo3DarkTheme'). â2. Now we can actually MERGE the project" Gofer it smalltalkhubUser: 'estebanlm' project: 'Pharo3DarkTheme'; package: 'Pharo3DarkTheme'; merge. â3. And then install it" Pharo3DarkTheme installFullTheme. WARNING 1: You need to do a merge (notice the script) WARNING 2: Yes, this is a HACK (also: an ugly hack). See below for details. WARNING 3: This changes something in the Pharo3Theme too... so you can go back after installing, but not completely :) Considerations -------------- It can look like an easy task, to make a theme over a non native GUI like Pharo, but let me tell you: It is not. There are a lot of glitches and errors of design you have to overcome to get a working version of a theme. This is a pitty because we claim that our system is clean (or should be clean) and easy to understand. But all the Morphic implementation is a hack over a hack, with preconcepts and hardcodes everywhere, up to a point that to make the smallest change is an incredibly annoying task. Then... I added ""yet another hack"" to this infinite list. I made it because we need something like this, even if not a good solution. And I also made it to start a debate into our community. I truly believe that Morphic was a great idea, but I also believe that current implementation is doomed. I would like to discuss a new implementation, with a good design (for example I believe it should be a clear separation between a morph and it's skin, making easy the actual-hard task of changing a colorset). I also believe there will be a clear separation between what is a Morph (a graphical unit) and a Widget (who at the time should use morphs, but that's another story). Etc., etc., etc. So, will we start the longtime postponed effort of effectively replace current Morphic? In the mean time, enjoy the theme. Is so cool that I'm considering making it my default theme :P Esteban

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Dev Art from Google
by S Krish May 2, 2014

May 2, 2014

Moose art visualizations if not more from Phratch et als can make a mark here. https://devart.withgoogle.com/?utm_source=email&utm_medium=gsp&utm_campaign…

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Soon the LaserGame book for Pharo
by stepharo May 1, 2014

May 1, 2014

Hi guys Steve just told me that he is ok that we port his book to Pharo :) This is a great news. So I will start during my spare time. Stef Begin forwarded message: From: Stephan Wessels <stevewessels(a)me.com> Subject: Re: [vwnc] Can this idea work Date: 24 Apr 2014 15:21:27 GMT+2 To: stephane ducasse <stephane.ducasse(a)gmail.com> Hi. Actually I got those requests and replied both times that you have my permission provided I'm credited or noted as the original author. Please go forward with it; it can only help the Smalltalk community. Sent from my iPhone On Apr 24, 2014, at 8:16 AM, stephane ducasse <stephane.ducasse(a)gmail.com> wrote: Hi steve I tried to contact you several times in the past but I got no answer. I would like to know if we can port the tutorial to Pharo and if we can turn it into a book to fit in the open-source book collection we are slowly building (SqueakbyExample, PharoByExample, Seaside, DeepintoPharo). Now since there is no license it is not clear that it is worth the effort. Stef On 22 Apr 2014, at 01:44, stevewessels <stevewessels(a)me.com> wrote: As the author of the tutorial I'm not sure how I feel about my work being referred to as "old". The tutorial is remarkably still in use to this day. I still get emails from folks thanking me for it or reporting bugs. When the tutorial was written my intended audience was Smalltalk developers wanting to build Test Driven Development (TDD) skills. It was not intended for beginners. But as it turns out lots of beginners have slogged through it. The key concepts I tried to demonstrate were how to do TDD and building good models that were testable. I also wanted to show you could make stand-alone apps using Smalltalk/Squeak for the Mac. To convert the tutorial to VisualWorks might end up being a challenge, but alas, I haven't used VW since the late 90's and I know it's grown a whole lot since those days. So I cannot recommend how you go about doing it. You're welcome to send me questions about it and any design decisions that were made. I don't claim that it is a "proper OO design" or anything like that. Interestingly, I did port the design to Objective-C for the iPhone years ago and the basic design held up fine. The GUI was obviously done differently -- I ended up adopting OpenGL for the GUI. That was work. But it turned out well and has been in the App Store ever since. So if I can help you, drop me a note. -- View this message in context: http://forum.world.st/Can-this-idea-work-tp4753741p4755668.html Sent from the VisualWorks mailing list archive at Nabble.com. _______________________________________________ vwnc mailing list vwnc(a)cs.uiuc.edu http://lists.cs.uiuc.edu/mailman/listinfo/vwnc

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Pharo renamed to "MuchTalk"
by oscar＠gmail May 1, 2014

May 1, 2014

Holy smoley! 117 emails since I checked a few hours ago? Maybe we should rename Pharo âProlixâ? :-) on

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Pharo 3.0 Released!
by Esteban Lorenzano May 1, 2014

May 1, 2014

Dear World, Pharo 3.0 (http://www.pharo.org) is here. The past year seemed short as we got busy building more than usual. Many things have changed in Pharo. Here are the highlights: - The new modular Opal compiler is now the default compiler used in the system. - The Athens vector graphics canvas is now integrated and it supports Cairo rendering on all platforms. - Many tools have been rewritten using Spec, a new framework for building user interfaces. - Versionner and Kommiter are two of the new development tools. - RPackage, a new package mechanism got enhanced with tags and is fully integrated in the system. - The debugger model was rewritten to become modular, the inspector received a bump to support multiple views, and the Nautilus code browser supports tags, search and lot more improvements. - Morphic has seen many cleanings and improvements and the visual theme has been revamped. These are just the more prominent highlights, but the details are just as important. We have closed 2364 issues in Pharo 3 (compared with 1727 issues in Pharo 2). Take a moment to go through a more detailed recount of the progress: https://github.com/pharo-project/ChangeLogs/blob/master/Pharo30ChangeLogs.md Pharo is improving on many fronts. Just take a look at the code city of Pharo (built with Pharo for Pharo). Every building is a class, and the red bricks represent the modified methods in Pharo 3. Many things are changing but the system gets more stable. Moving from Pharo 2 to Pharo 3 is almost a matter of just loading the code. Remember that Pharo is your platform. We thank all the contributors of this release: Jean-Baptiste Arnaud, Simon Allier, Philippe Back, ClÃ©ment Bera, Alexandre Bergel, Torsten Bergmann, Usman Bhatti, Vincent Blondeau, Noury Bouraqadi, Johan Brichau, Camillo Bruni, Sven Van Caekenberghe, Damien Cassou, Nicolas Cellier, Guido Chari, Dimitris Chloupis, Bernardo Contreras, Ben Coman, Gabriel Omar Cotelli, Jordi Delgado, Tommaso Del Sasso, Gisela Decuzzi, Christophe Demarey, Sean DeNigris, Marcus Denker, Martin Dias, Erwan Douaille, Stephane Ducasse, Stephan Eggermont, Pablo Estefo, Luc Fabresse, Johan Fabry, Hilaire Fernandes, Nahuel Garbezza, Leo Gassman, Lucas Giudice, Tudor Girba, Thierry Goubier, Norbert Hartl, Dale Henrichs, Pablo Herrero, Nicolai Hess, Andre Hora, Alejandro Infante, Ricardo Jacas, Henrik Sperre Johansen, Denis Kudryashov, Pavel Krivanek, Juraj Kubelka, Laurent Laffont, Jannik Laval, Max Leske, David Lewis, Diego Lont, Esteban Lorenzano, Stefan Marr, Mariano Martinez Peck, Roberto Minelli, Hernan Morales Durand, Eliot Miranda, Fernando Olivero, Nicolas Papagna Maldonado, Nick Papoylias, Nicolas Passerini, Vanessa PeÃ±a, Nicolas Petton, Alain Plantec, Guillermo Polito, Damien Pollet, Jochen Rick, Benjamin Van Ryseghem, Ronie Salgado, Camille Teruel, Juan Pablo Sandoval Alcocer, Samir Saleh, Frank Shearar, Igor Stasenko, Aliaksei Syrel, Sebastian Tleye, Yuriy Tymchuk, Andres Valloud, Martin Walk, Hernan Wilkinson. And many many more who contributed indirectly, by reporting bugs, participating in discussion threads, providing feedback... Pharo 3.0 is the largest step we took since we started. Yet, itâs just a step. Expect more. Much more. Enjoy! The Pharo Team

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Pharo crashes
by jannik laval May 1, 2014

May 1, 2014

Hi pharoers, I am trying to load Phratch in the latest Pharo3.0 Installer Mac (image+vm), and Pharo crashes during the install. It is easy to reproduce: - Load the latest Pharo Installer for Mac - Run this code: --- Gofer it url: 'http://smalltalkhub.com/mc/JLaval/Phratch/main' username: '' password: ''; package: 'ConfigurationOfPhratch'; load. (Smalltalk at: #ConfigurationOfPhratch) loadBleedingEdge. --- Cheers, Jannik -- ~~Jannik Laval~~ Ãcole des Mines de Douai Enseignant-chercheur http://www.jannik-laval.eu http://www.phratch.com http://car.mines-douai.fr/

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Pharo is Smalltalkâ¦ and Not
by Sean P. DeNigris May 1, 2014

May 1, 2014

All of the arguments why Pharo is Smalltalk are correct. Let me tell you a story... My friends and I are planning a trip to Spain. I am explaining that in Spanish, "yo" - which means "hi" in English slang - means "l". They are arguing passionately that "yo" means "hi" and presenting evidence upon evidence to prove it. Then I snap back that, no, "yo" definitely means "I". Ridiculous, right? Sounds kind of like a Monty Python skit. Well, Pharo is planning a trip to the programming world of non-Smalltalkers. I am explaining that in Ruby, "Smalltalk" - which means "a language with a development environment written in itself which both were designed to continually evolve*" in the Smalltalk community - means "Smalltalk-80". My friends are arguing passionately that "Smalltalk" means the former and presenting evidence upon evidence to prove it. Both of these disagreements fail to take into account that truth is contextual and language imprecise. So please, please, please, please, please, no more theses on why Pharo is Smalltalk, or why it's not. It's neither, and both, and more! We're talking about effectively marketing to non-Smalltalkers, and our theory (only time will tell) is: for our first initial sound bite, Smalltalk-inspired (or silent about Smalltalk, which I think may be even better) will be more intention revealing to the target audience than Smalltalk. Either way, we're going to have to do some more explaining if they're interested in hearing more. But with the first, maybe, they will be interested in hearing more before being turned off by a preconceived (and incomplete) notion of what "Smalltalk" is. But there is a valid question here of how to manage the inevitable misunderstandings... I'll posted some ideas for that in a bit... ----- Cheers, Sean -- View this message in context: http://forum.world.st/Pharo-is-Smalltalk-and-Not-tp4757342.html Sent from the Pharo Smalltalk Developers mailing list archive at Nabble.com.

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