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

Why Bloc?
by Sean DeNigris Sept. 18, 2014

Sept. 18, 2014

<not trolling, genuinely curious> When SimpleMorphic was released, the problem was that we didnât know how to integrate it into our existing Morphic. Also, the problem with starting with CUISâs Morphic was IIRC that it didnât properly handle internationalization. Now that weâre heading toward a total replacement anyway, why start from scratch when there are these projects, Morphic 3, and who-knows-what-else already available? </not trolling, genuinely curious> - S

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Has someone ever built a "sort block generator"
by Mariano Martinez Peck Sept. 16, 2014

Sept. 16, 2014

Hi guys, Currently I have some sorting blocks which support "nil" elements (making them go first). So here is a general nil tolerant sort block based on one field: defaultNilTolerantSortBlock: aBlock [ :a :b | a ifNil: [ true ] ifNotNil: [ b ifNil: [ false ] ifNotNil: [ aBlock value: a value: b ] ] ] Now...imagine that now I want to first on element1, then over element2...and both could be nil...in which case should go "first". Anyway...does someone ever built some tool where you pass an ordered set of closures and it builds the super ugly resulting sort block? Cheers, -- Mariano http://marianopeck.wordpress.com

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PharoLauncher on Windows not the latest version
by kilon alios Sept. 5, 2014

Sept. 5, 2014

I downloaded PharoLauncher from smalltalkhub for Windows and it appears is not the latest version for example it has no template for downloading Pharo 4.

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Spec license
by Stephan Eggermont Sept. 4, 2014

Sept. 4, 2014

https://github.com/spec-framework/spec/commit/07ea83ca50523b4a912e363ff2f39… I think the license might need further improvements. I've taken a look at the commit history, and it looks to me like there is a licensing problem there. I am no lawyer, so don't know what the exact consequences of that are. The (MIT licensed) Pharo code was copied to the repository without including the copyright notice, as is required by the MIT license. For new contributions, you now have the license agreements, and with git it is perfectly clear what is new, and under the new license, and what is old, and can therefore also be used under the old license. And AFAIK MIT license is compatible with GPL. I have no clue as to the license status of changes between the copying and the relicensing. Of course copyright holding contributors can decide to relicense. The contributors to the Spec-* packages in the Pharo/Pharo30 repo seem to be: AlainPlantec AndreiChis BenComan BenjaminVanRyseghem BernardoContreras CamilloBruni CamilleTeruel ChristopheDemarey ClementBera DamienCassou ErwanDouaille EstebanLorenzano GabrielOmarCotelli GuillermoPolito HernanMoralesDurand IgorStasenko LeoGassman MarcusDenker MartinDias NicolaiHess PabloHerrero PavelKrivanek PhilippeBack RobertoMinelli SeanDeNigris SebastianTleye StephaneDucasse SvenVanCaekenberghe TorstenBergmann TudorGirba YuriyTymchuk Stephan

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SqNumberParser and PGConnection in Pharo 3
by Esteban A. Maringolo Sept. 2, 2014

Sept. 2, 2014

So SqNumberParser is gone in Pharo 3. And the nextDateAndTimeFrom: in PGConnection refers to it... I replaced it by plain NumberParser and it seems to continue working. What is the approach here to have a "squeak compatible" PGConnection? Add an empty SqNumberClass as subclass NumberParser? Regards! Esteban A. Maringolo

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Experiments in Code Typography
by Alexandre Bergel Sept. 1, 2014

Sept. 1, 2014

Hi! Iâve found this interesting illustrated short article by Sean McDirmid: http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/projects/liveprogramming/typography.aspx Some may find it interesting. Cheers, Alexandre -- _,.;:~^~:;._,.;:~^~:;._,.;:~^~:;._,.;:~^~:;._,.;: Alexandre Bergel http://www.bergel.eu ^~:;._,.;:~^~:;._,.;:~^~:;._,.;:~^~:;._,.;:~^~:;.

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Roadmap on tools?
by Juraj Kubelka Sept. 1, 2014

Sept. 1, 2014

Hi, I have found useful those roadmaps: https://github.com/pharo-project/pharo-workingRoadmaps Could it be possible to make one for the Pharo tools (e.g. Nautilus)? I think there are people who have better idea what to make first and what later. I would like to contribute on it and roadmap could help me. Thanks, Juraj

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Latch for Pharo (Opinion needed)
by GermÃ¡n Arduino Sept. 1, 2014

Sept. 1, 2014

Hi Guys: I'm working in a project to write a SDK for use Latch with Pharo. Latch [1] is a product/service to add a degree of security to web applications and is developed and marketed by 11Paths [2] , a company from TelefÃ³nica. It provides very interesting security services [3] but they do not have a Smalltalk SDK (Only Ruby, PHP, Java, .NET, Python, C and PowerShell) then I think that I could write a Pharo SDK and a reference (example) implementation in Seaside, to bring to the Pharo community an interesting tool to add more protection to the Pharo web applications. Do you think that this SDK could be of interest for the community? Are you using other tools different of Latch to add security to your web applications? Your opinion will be of great help. Thanks. [1] https://latch.elevenpaths.com/www/index.html [2] https://www.elevenpaths.com/index.html [3] https://latch.elevenpaths.com/www/why.html -- Saludos / Regards, GermÃ¡n Arduino www.arduinosoftware.com

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background color text attribute?
by Tudor Girba Sept. 1, 2014

Sept. 1, 2014

Hi, Does any of you know if there is a way to add a background color to a piece of text? Cheers, Doru -- www.tudorgirba.com "Every thing has its own flow"

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Contributions about Pharo and Moose
by Alain Rastoul Aug. 31, 2014

Aug. 31, 2014

Hi all, This afternoon, my bike didn't start (the battery got weaker every day this week, no surprise), so I've put it in charge and decided to take a ride on the latest Pharo and Moose versions instead :) First I downloaded the latest Pharo 4 image, opened a Workspace and got an error clicking on the right arrow of the window to display the menu. I searched opened cases and saw issue 13865 (cleaning MenuMorph) and added a comment about the fix I am not a contributor to Pharo right now though I'm willing to, I believe I could do some minor cases like that one (I might have to check first with my employer about some intellectual property agreement I've signed in the past, but I guess no problem here). BTW I took a look at the video and slides 'how to contribute', opened and account on SmalltalkHub but didn't get the mail to confirm my registration right now. My first question is just a confirmation: I saw in the slides that to commit slices, one has to be given write access by asking in this mailing list ? (In this case, I will when everything is ok). Second question is about Moose : I tried to load the Moose development configuration in this Pharo4 image (I like to play Candid) and got small errors (big ones too, I guess Moose is on the way to move to Pharo4 and there is still some hard work) I'm wondering if fogbugz is the place to report Moose bugs ? And what about other packages like for example (two of the errors I had) ConfigurationOfPetitSQLParser or Hashtable-simon_denier.31 ? Most of the Moose related issues on fogbugz seems to be related to integration into Pharo, not to Moose development or to other packages ? Is there a fogbugz or other site for Moose or do we report Moose bugs in this list ? What about external packages ? What is the process in that case ? Thanks in advance for your answers Regards, Alain

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