January 2021 - Pharo-dev - lists.pharo.org

Progress Report -> Refactoring Project - ( January 4 - 8 )
by EVELYN CUSI LOPEZ Jan. 18, 2021

Jan. 18, 2021

Hello everyone. Last week I did these tasks: - Fix PR of "extract method and occurrences" refactoring ( https://github.com/pharo-project/pharo/pull/8193) - Fix "replace senders of message by another message" refactoring, the modification is for replace in all classes or only in owner class, this can be scale to replace in determinated classes ( https://github.com/pharo-project/pharo/pull/8314) - Divide coupled logic between commands, views and refactorings (to remove NautilusRefactoring class). - Review how to fix Undo Refactoring issue. Tasks for this week: - Fix undo refactoring issue. - Migrate extract method to refactoring2. - Review how migrate all refactoring commands to commander2 now only works in source code context. - Fix rename protocol issue ( https://github.com/pharo-project/pharo/issues/4461) - Fix add argument issue (https://github.com/pharo-project/pharo/issues/5852 ). Cheers, Evelyn

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Progress Report -> Refactoring Project - ( January 11 - 15 )
by EVELYN CUSI LOPEZ Jan. 18, 2021

Jan. 18, 2021

Hi all Last week I did these tasks: - Fix add parameter issue, now this refactoring can permute arguments ( https://github.com/pharo-project/pharo/pull/8382 ) - Fix extract method issue, when we have symbols and strings, now Literal node can compare correctly these types of literals (https://github.com/pharo -project/pharo/pull/8381) - Fix find and replace issue, to know how many occurrences were found and changed (https://github.com/pharo-project/pharo/pull/8380) - I started to do the new "extract setUp" refactoring, by the moment this has some problems Tasks for this week: - Finish to do extract setUp refactoring - Migrate class and method commands, to commander2 - Fix undo refactoring issue - Fix Renaming protocol: current value not selected #4461 <https://github.com/pharo-project/pharo/issues/4461> - Fix Cannot extract method with arguments #5855 <https://github.com/pharo-project/pharo/issues/5855> Cheers, Evelyn

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This week (02/2021) on the Issue Tracker
by Marcus Denker Jan. 15, 2021

Jan. 15, 2021

Event Cleanup ============== - Make Old events work as new ones in SDL2 #8318 https://github.com/pharo-project/pharo/pull/8318 - RubTextEditor uses deprecated enclose: #8316 https://github.com/pharo-project/pharo/pull/8316 - Remove unused and non working keystrokeSelector: #8322 https://github.com/pharo-project/pharo/pull/8322 - Remap OS keys to use Home and not Begin #8337 https://github.com/pharo-project/pharo/pull/8337 - 8214-Global-shortcuts-only-works-when-a-Pharo-window-is-focused #8321 https://github.com/pharo-project/pharo/pull/8321 - Fixes in code completion shortcuts #8340 https://github.com/pharo-project/pharo/pull/8340 - Fix enclosing and adding comment to KeyboardKey #8350 https://github.com/pharo-project/pharo/pull/8350 Refactorings ============ - Fix issue replace message send by another message send #8314 https://github.com/pharo-project/pharo/pull/8314 - RB - Fix issues extract method and ocurrences #8193 https://github.com/pharo-project/pharo/pull/8193 Debugger ======== - Using rub text decorators to show the next instruction to execute #8359 https://github.com/pharo-project/pharo/pull/8359 - Fixing assertion layout in the debugger inspector when we encounter a shouldnt:raise: failure #8372 https://github.com/pharo-project/pharo/pull/8372 - 8174 st peel to first command looks wrong #8347 https://github.com/pharo-project/pharo/pull/8347 Fixes ===== - Add tfPointerAddress to FloatArray and family #8344 https://github.com/pharo-project/pharo/pull/8344 - Add literalsEvenTheOnesInTheInnerBlocks to the CleanBlockClosure #8 https://github.com/pharo-project/pharo/pull/8306 - fixing-eval-in-interactive-session #8286 https://github.com/pharo-project/pharo/pull/8286 - Smalltalk-restartMethods #8351 https://github.com/pharo-project/pharo/pull/8351 - Correctly throw a syntax error notification in unfinished statements #8367 https://github.com/pharo-project/pharo/pull/8367 - Only open completion menu if in a completion position #8363 https://github.com/pharo-project/pharo/pull/8363 Fluid Class Defintions ====================== - 8332-Better-and-nicer-display-of-slots #8333 https://github.com/pharo-project/pharo/pull/8333 - 8216-FluidClass-API-for-traits- #8331 https://github.com/pharo-project/pharo/pull/8331 Cleanups ======== - add WriteBarrierTest class>>#restartMethods #8362 https://github.com/pharo-project/pharo/pull/8362 - PRRichTextComposer-resetStylers #8360 https://github.com/pharo-project/pharo/pull/8360 - Refactor ChangeSetClassChangesTest to use ClassFactoryForTestCase. #8221 https://github.com/pharo-project/pharo/pull/8221 - Typo in PasteUpMorph class>>#shouldSwapMenuOpenerButtonsSetting: #8343 https://github.com/pharo-project/pharo/pull/8343 - Unused ivars in SliderPresenter #8328 https://github.com/pharo-project/pharo/pull/8328 - Unused ivars in ListPresenter #8356 https://github.com/pharo-project/pharo/pull/8356

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This week (01/2021) on the Issue Tracker
by Marcus Denker Jan. 15, 2021

Jan. 15, 2021

A bit late: the what happend the first week of the year. Merge spec 0.8.1 ================= - Fixes to filtering lists SpFilteringListPresenter and SpFilteringSelectableListPresenter. - Some changes to enhance Spec<->Morph interaction when using SpMorphPresenter. - In tables and trees, adding methods updateItemsKeepingSelection:/updateRootsKeepingSelection: that will prevent an activation to be triggered when refreshing the elements of a list/tree. - tree and tree table refactored to extract common behavior. - add whenFocusReceivedo: and whenFocusLostDo: convenience methods to SpWindowPresenter. - Added some missing spec builders - several small bugfixes - https://github.com/pharo-spec/Spec/releases/tag/v0.8.1 - https://github.com/pharo-project/pharo/pull/8239 merge newtools =============== - v0.5.1: several bugfixes for new tools https://github.com/pharo-project/pharo/pull/8302 - v0.5.1.1 advanced steps https://github.com/pharo-project/pharo/pull/8303 Refactoring ============ - RB - Fix push up sharedPools issue #8207 https://github.com/pharo-project/pharo/pull/8207 Fixes ===== - 8241-Warning-PotentialOutDatedDependencyWarning-Kernel-FFI-Kernel-dependenc https://github.com/pharo-project/pharo/pull/8279 - 8280-From-Twitter-There-is-an-error-in-the-image-tutorial-related-to-read-only-literals #8281 https://github.com/pharo-project/pharo/pull/8281 - 8215 detect sum is a strange name for an unconditional loop #8299 https://github.com/pharo-project/pharo/pull/8299 - Compiled code 'literals' do not behave the same that compiled code 'hasLiteral' #8206 https://github.com/pharo-project/pharo/pull/8206 Improvements ============ - improving-TFFI-semaphore-pool #8255 https://github.com/pharo-project/pharo/pull/8255 - Renamed the method Integer >> take:, wrote a better comment and better variable names #8217 https://github.com/pharo-project/pharo/pull/8217 Speed ===== - RPackageOrganizer >> packageMatchingExtensionName: seems to be very slow #8203 https://github.com/pharo-project/pharo/pull/8203 Cleanups ========= - Small cleanup OCASTSemanticAnalyzer: #declareVariableNode: #8227 https://github.com/pharo-project/pharo/pull/8227 - 2138 Rubric cleanup #8222 https://github.com/pharo-project/pharo/pull/8222 - Fix a few more package extensions #8213 https://github.com/pharo-project/pharo/pull/8213 - Fix Compression package extensions #8211 https://github.com/pharo-project/pharo/pull/8211 - Behavior>>#parseTreeFor: extension #8209 https://github.com/pharo-project/pharo/pull/8209 - Cleanup MockForCompilation #8290 https://github.com/pharo-project/pharo/pull/8290 - Cleanups in package 'TraitsV2-Tests' #8296 https://github.com/pharo-project/pharo/pull/8296 - 8283-ClassDescriptiondefinition-called-from-GTSpotterExtensionsOnClassTesttestBasic-has-been-deprecated #8301 https://github.com/pharo-project/pharo/pull/8301 Dead Code Cleanups ================== Mostly related to unused instance variables - Remove unused class FT2BitmapSize #8247 https://github.com/pharo-project/pharo/pull/8247 - Remove unused ivars in TaskIt #8225 https://github.com/pharo-project/pharo/pull/8225 - Cleanup unused ivars Enlumineur #8236 https://github.com/pharo-project/pharo/pull/8236 - Clean unused ivars in package Debugger-Model-Tests-Core #8232 https://github.com/pharo-project/pharo/pull/8232 - Unused ivars in FTHeaderColumnCellMorph and FastTablePresenter #8249 https://github.com/pharo-project/pharo/pull/8249 - Remove unused ivars in ClassParser package #8230 https://github.com/pharo-project/pharo/pull/8230 - Cleanup unused ivars in ExampleForTestWithSharedPool #8238 https://github.com/pharo-project/pharo/pull/8238 - Care on unused ivars in Microdown #8254 https://github.com/pharo-project/pharo/pull/8254 - Remove unused vars in HandMorph #8251 https://github.com/pharo-project/pharo/pull/8251 - Cleanup unused ivars for new EmergencyDebugger #8234 https://github.com/pharo-project/pharo/pull/8234 - Remove unused ivar selectedItem in deprecated TreePresenter #8228 https://github.com/pharo-project/pharo/pull/8228 - Clean unused class ivar in RGEnvironmentAnnouncer #8272 https://github.com/pharo-project/pharo/pull/8272 - Unused ivar WorldState lastCycleTime #8259 https://github.com/pharo-project/pharo/pull/8259 - Unused ivar in NECTestClass #8270 https://github.com/pharo-project/pharo/pull/8270 - Clean unused ivar in Shift-ClassBuilder #8274 https://github.com/pharo-project/pharo/pull/8274 - Unused ivars in Pillar tests #8268 https://github.com/pharo-project/pharo/pull/8268 - Unused ivars in MonticelloMocks #8265 https://github.com/pharo-project/pharo/pull/8265 - Unused ivar in ClassHierarchyPrinter #8261 https://github.com/pharo-project/pharo/pull/8261 - Unused ivars in WriteBarrier Stub classes #8257 https://github.com/pharo-project/pharo/pull/8257 - Care on unused ivars in StepThroughTest #8278 https://github.com/pharo-project/pharo/pull/8278 - Cleanup unused ivar in FLDebuggerStackMaterialization #8245 https://github.com/pharo-project/pharo/pull/8245 - Unused ivars in FluidClassBuilder #8263 https://github.com/pharo-project/pharo/pull/8263 - Care on unused ivars in ThreadedFFI #8276 https://github.com/pharo-project/pharo/pull/8276 - Unused ivars in Kernel slot classes #8285 https://github.com/pharo-project/pharo/pull/8285 - RubTextEditor has unused ivar #8292 https://github.com/pharo-project/pharo/pull/8292 - Unused ivars in Rubric Spec2 dialogs #8294 https://github.com/pharo-project/pharo/pull/8294

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Part 2 of Pharo Smalltalk related series of articles in a french magazine
by Noury Bouraqadi Jan. 14, 2021

Jan. 14, 2021

Hi everyone, The part 2 of the articles by the Pharo Smalltalk community is out, as part of the french magazine Programmez #244. You can find a summary (in french) at: https://nootrix.com/fr/smalltalk-magazine-2021-01/ Enjoy, Noury

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Beta Testing ARM64 Linux & Windows
by tesonep＠gmail.com Jan. 12, 2021

Jan. 12, 2021

In the last months, we have been working on the implementation of a MIT-licenced ARMv8 Just-In-Time compiler for Pharo VM. We would like to announce that a beta first version of our JIT backend is available for beta-testing for ARM Linux and Windows machines. We are very happy with the advance in this subject, as we have not only implemented a new backend but we have added more than 2500 tests of the JIT, the primitives, code generation, plugins, and the VM in general. Also, we are generating a lot of documentation and improving the process to really democratize the development of the VM. After all the text there are details on how to obtain the versions for testing it. The following sections give more details of the current status, and the following steps including Apple Silicon, Windows, and Linux ARM64. *Current Status* Our objective is to have a running JIT for the new aarch64 architecture (ARM 64bits). This task includes not only a new backend for the JIT compiler but also adding support for external libraries, dependencies, and the build process. This means having a working VM with comparable features as the one existing in Intel X64. We are targeting all the major operating systems running on this platform (Linux, OSX, Windows). Each of them presents different restrictions and conditions. After expending some time this is the current status: - We implemented a full backend for the JIT compiler targeting aarch64. - All the image side was adapted to run on it, tested on Ubuntu ARM 64 bits. - We added support for: Iceberg (Libgit) / Athens (Cairo) / SDL / GTK - We implemented a LibFFI based FFI backend as the default one for Pharo 9 in aarch64 (next to come in all platforms). This opens the door to easily port the features to other platforms and OSes. This new implementation does not have an impact on performance as it has comparable results with the old implementation. Much more, this implementation opens also the door to have runners in different threads than the VM thread (non-blocking FFI). *Status By Platform* *Linux* We have a working version of the VM. It is using the same code-base and build process for both architectures (Intel X64 / ARM aarch64). A version can be compiled and executed in all the platforms. Also, we have integrated the build using Open Build Services (OBS) to generate packages for all the mainstream distributions. Currently, the version for Debian-like systems (Debian, Ubuntu, Raspberry pi OS, etc) is available and ready to beta test; the details for installing them are in the end of the mail. Versions for ARCH-based and RPM-based systems are in the working (If you want to get them or to test them please contact us, so we can pass on the detail of how to get them). *Windows * We have extended the build process to fully support Microsoft Visual Studio compilers and more flexibility to select the targets, also we are building it to run in Windows ARM. To correctly run the VM in Windows it is needed to build all dependencies for aarch64. In this path, we have a working Intel x64 version with Cygwin and MSVC, and a MSVC version for aarch64 (ARM64). The ARM64 version is available to be beta-testing on machines with this architecture. The Details are at the end of the mail. *OSX* Our third target is to have a working version for the newest Apple silicon. We are acquiring the corresponding hardware to test and to address the differences in the API exposed to JIT applications. As it is the case of the Windows VM, there is no need to change the machine code generation backend, as it is the same that has been implemented for Linux; but to compile external libraries and particularities of the new OS version. Thanks for your support. In the meantime, we will continue giving you news about the current state and where are we going. *Beta Testing - Linux* For Debian like distributions, the instructions are the following. *Installation* 1) Add a new APT source, usually modifying a file in /etc/apt/sources.list.d/, for example, we can add the pharo.list file with the following content. Also, we need to register the key of the repository. These steps should be done only once. We are giving a little script for modifying the configuration. It is only needed to execute line by line. *For Raspbian:* echo "deb https://download.opensuse.org/repositories/devel:/languages:/pharo:/latest/… ./" >> pharo.list sudo cp pharo.list /etc/apt/sources.list.d/pharo.list wget https://download.opensuse.org/repositories/devel:/languages:/pharo:/latest/… sudo apt-key add Release.key *For Ubuntu:* echo "deb https://download.opensuse.org/repositories/devel:/languages:/pharo:/latest/… ./" >> pharo.list sudo cp pharo.list /etc/apt/sources.list.d/pharo.list wget https://download.opensuse.org/repositories/devel:/languages:/pharo:/latest/… sudo apt-key add Release.key 2) Update the repository to take the current versions sudo apt update 3) Install Pharo9 VM sudo apt install pharo9 libgit2 4) In case of using the interactive version (with UI) check if the packages libsdl2-2.0-0 and libcairo2 are installed (Usually they are installed, but depends what it is installed in the system). These are not needed for the headless execution or if it is not used by the image. *Getting the images:* The images can be downloaded using zero-conf, the latest image is ready to be used. It can be done with: wget -O - get.pharo.org/64/90 | bash *Running Pharo* pharo Pharo.image eval 42 factorial Or interactive pharo Pharo.image --interactive *Windows Testing* A version of the VM is ready to be tested in Windows ARM64. A zip containing the VM is available in: https://files.pharo.org/vm/pharo-spur64/Windows-ARM64/PharoVM-9.0.0-4df0e56… As in Linux, the latest image is compatible with this version of the VM. *Error reporting* In case of encountering errors please report them attaching: - crash.dmp file and PharoDebug.log - Version of the image using (in case of any community project loaded, the names of those) - Complete machine version (the result of executing uname -a) - Complete information about the Linux distribution - Steps for reproducing the error (if needed) Thanks for the effort!! -- Pablo Tesone. tesonep(a)gmail.com

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This week (52 and 53/2020) on the Issue Tracker
by Marcus Denker Jan. 5, 2021

Jan. 5, 2021

A bit lateâ¦ this is what happened the last two weeks of 2020: Fixes ===== - Fix class variable entanglement issue #8045 https://github.com/pharo-project/pharo/pull/8045 - Change Sorter broken #8154 https://github.com/pharo-project/pharo/pull/8154 - Fixes in the Parser #8148 https://github.com/pharo-project/pharo/pull/8148 - Fix Morphic Shortcut Error handling #8156 https://github.com/pharo-project/pharo/pull/8156 - Fixes #6993 against P9: Incorrect error message on failed parsing of a number with high radix #6995 https://github.com/pharo-project/pharo/pull/6995 - Add `visitSelectorNode:` #8163 https://github.com/pharo-project/pharo/pull/8163 - Fix broken (deprecated) UTF8TextConverter #8177 https://github.com/pharo-project/pharo/pull/8177 Debugger ========= - 8135-When-executing-a-doit-against-a-context-the-class-is-not-correct #8136 https://github.com/pharo-project/pharo/pull/8136 - Do not add DoIts to the cache for now. fixes #7955 #7959 https://github.com/pharo-project/pharo/pull/7959 - Debugger fuel out stack command #8141 https://github.com/pharo-project/pharo/pull/8141 Class Definitions ================= - 8150-Trait-creation-should-use-the-traitBuilder #8151 https://github.com/pharo-project/pharo/pull/8151 - 8145-Cleaning-subclass-users #8149 https://github.com/pharo-project/pharo/pull/8149 - 8181-When-fluid-class-on-two-traitTest-are-failing #8190 https://github.com/pharo-project/pharo/pull/8190 Features ======== - 8120-RPackageOrganizer-and-RPackage-should-report-about-if-a-package-is-a-test-package #8152 https://github.com/pharo-project/pharo/pull/8152 - Switch to pharo-icon-pack v1.0.1-idea11 #8089 https://github.com/pharo-project/pharo/pull/8089 - Add a lint rule for classes to have no "Uncategorized" classes in the package #8033 https://github.com/pharo-project/pharo/pull/8033 Refactorings ============ - Fix issue 4902, remove duplicated method #8147 https://github.com/pharo-project/pharo/pull/8147 - Fix Abstract instance variables issue #8138 https://github.com/pharo-project/pharo/pull/8138 Dead Code ========= - 8158-ContextquickStep-is-unused-and-strange #8159 https://github.com/pharo-project/pharo/pull/8159 - DelayBasicScheduler had debug code left from review #7990 https://github.com/pharo-project/pharo/pull/7990 - remove itemFilterName for the spotter, as it seems to be unusedâ¦ #6700 https://github.com/pharo-project/pharo/pull/6700 Cleanups ======== - 8143-Cleaning-Fluid-Builder #8144 https://github.com/pharo-project/pharo/pull/8144 - Tag uncategorized classes in package Refactoring-Tests-Core #8019 https://github.com/pharo-project/pharo/pull/8019 - RBMethodNode #pragmas is the only instance variable for AST children that has an accessor checking for nil #7979 https://github.com/pharo-project/pharo/pull/7979 - Move business logic from new tools to system-support #7659 https://github.com/pharo-project/pharo/pull/7659 - 8127-FFICalloutAPITestmethod2-sends-non-implemented-call #8139 https://github.com/pharo-project/pharo/pull/8139 - remove unused ivar DelayBasicScheduler #8164 https://github.com/pharo-project/pharo/pull/8164 - Fix testCreationByUnnamed #8165 https://github.com/pharo-project/pharo/pull/8165 - Fix #8196 clean some shadowed variables #8197 https://github.com/pharo-project/pharo/pull/8197 Pharo 8 backports ======= - Fixes #6993 against P8: Incorrect error message on failed parsing of a number with high radix #6994 https://github.com/pharo-project/pharo/pull/6994 - backportIfErrorDo #6154 https://github.com/pharo-project/pharo/pull/6154

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Progress Report -> Refactoring Project - ( December 28 - 31 )
by EVELYN CUSI LOPEZ Jan. 4, 2021

Jan. 4, 2021

Hello everyone. Last week I did these tasks: - Migrate extract method command to commander2 (as an experiment to review how effort we need to migrate all refactorings). - Fix push up with sharedPools issue. - Start to create extract setUp and tearDown methods. Tasks for this week: - Finish to create extract setUp and tearDown methods. - Fix undo refactoring issue. - Add option to limit classes where we replace senders of method to other method (https://github.com/pharo-project/pharo/issues/8087) - Fix push up issue (https://github.com/pharo-project/pharo/issues/2656) Cheers, Evelyn

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Can anyone get recent Pharo9 builds to work on Linux?
by Martin McClure Jan. 3, 2021

Jan. 3, 2021

If anyone can get recent (within the last week or so) 64-bit Pharo9 images to work on Linux, please let me know how you did that! I've tried everything I can think of and no luck. For the purposes of this query, "working'' means that you can open a playground, type into the it, then backspace over what you've typed. If you can do that on Linux, this information would be much appreciated: * What build are you running? * What VM are you running and where did you get it? * How do you launch it? If from the command-line, what arguments? Thanks, -Martin

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