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Open Call: Object-Centric Breakpoints experiment
by Steven Costiou May 14, 2024

May 14, 2024

Dear Community, as part of a research project in the EVREF team, we are looking for people to participate to an empirical experiment on object-centric breakpoints - a debugging tool present in Pharo 9. Many people from the community already participated, and we thank them very much ð We are still looking for participants, we need 40 people to do the experiment! Please help us, in return it helps us understand better our tools and their impact and therefore build better tools for the Pharo community! For those who want to know a bit more, see my original email below. For those who just want to jump at the experiment, you can go there https://github.com/Pharo-XP-Tools/XPImageGeneration/tree/exp-ocd Thanks in advance ð Steven. --- We would like to invite you to participate to our experimental study on Object-Centric Breakpoints. This study aims to evaluate and to understand how Object-Centric Breakpoints impacts the debugging activity. This experiment takes place in **Pharo 9**. In this experiment, we ask you to solve 2 debugging tasks, one with standard Pharo tools and one other with Object-Centric Breakpoints. Between the two tasks, you will have to follow a tutorialand warmup tasks to learn how to use the tool. **How to Participate:** All instructions are here, please read them carefully: https://github.com/Pharo-XP-Tools/XPImageGeneration/tree/exp-ocd **About the Experiment:** The experiment last between 40 minutes and 2 hours. Participants should have experience with Pharo development and debugging. We recommend having more than 6 months experience in Pharo and debugging in general. You will gain insights into the Object-Centric Breakpoints approach and contribute to advancements in debugging research. Help us to build better debugging tools that help you debug! **Some constraints:** - You are not allowed to load external tools and baselines, but you can use anything that is in the base image - Please do the experiment in one shot if possible without interruptions - The experiment sends anonymous data to our inria server, please make sure that you have a valid internet connection - Please try to use the object-centric breakpoints when the experimental framework asks you to **Notes:** Participation is voluntary, and everything is anonymous. You can abandon the experiment at any point (and your data will be discarded). For any question, you can contact us: steven.costiou(a)inria.fr and valentin.bourcier(a)inria.fr Thank you for considering participating in our study. Your contribution will be valuable in advancing the field of debugging and helping us understand what tools we need to build for Pharo. Sincerely, Steven and Valentin, EVREF team, Inria

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# This week (13/2024) on the Pharo Issue Tracker
by Marcus Denker March 29, 2024

March 29, 2024

# Fixes - Adapt #getVolumeInfo:into:size: for StWin32Info to strict FFI #729 https://github.com/pharo-spec/NewTools/pull/729 - Take the selector into account in #AdditionalMethodState>>#analogousCodeTo: #16302 https://github.com/pharo-project/pharo/pull/16302 - Add override for #drawPolygon:fillStyle:borderWidth:borderColor: on ScalingCanvas to avoid conversion of the second argument to a Color #16304 https://github.com/pharo-project/pharo/pull/16305 - Make #contentsMenu: on WorldMorph use the FormSet for each of the icons #16317 https://github.com/pharo-project/pharo/pull/16317 - Change â./$0â to â$0â in recursive retry command in script âgetPharoVM.shâ #16337 https://github.com/pharo-project/pharo/pull/16337 - ZnHeaders does not understand isNotEmpty #16339 https://github.com/pharo-project/pharo/pull/16339 - Move archival of â*.xmlâ and â*.fuelâ files in âJenkinsfileâ to the âfinallyâ block #16341 https://github.com/pharo-project/pharo/pull/16341 - remaining morphic dialogs: aligning the default option to right #16352 https://github.com/pharo-project/pharo/pull/16352 # Tools - fixes #16315 dependency browser layout feels wrong #16343 https://github.com/pharo-project/pharo/pull/16343 - enable / disable syntax highlight in code presenter of critics browser. #727 https://github.com/pharo-spec/NewTools/pull/727 # Cleanup - Remove StWindowsExtensionsTest #728 https://github.com/pharo-spec/NewTools/pull/728 - Remove #createTab from ClyBrowserToolMorph #16318 https://github.com/pharo-project/pharo/pull/16318 - Remove old backward compatibility code from FFILibrary #16349 https://github.com/pharo-project/pharo/pull/16349

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This week (12/2024) on the Pharo Issue Tracker
by Marcus Denker March 25, 2024

March 25, 2024

# Features - Adding tests for debug points + integrating debug points to Calypso Browser #16268 https://github.com/pharo-project/pharo/pull/16268 - add uFFI convenience methods #16320 https://github.com/pharo-project/pharo/pull/16320 # Fixes - 16321-Method-with-an-highlighted-warning-or-error-is-kept-when-deleting-the-offending-text #16322 https://github.com/pharo-project/pharo/pull/16322 - Protect with a mutex the transcript update #16311 https://github.com/pharo-project/pharo/pull/16311 - 15841-ZeroDivide-when-selecting-idea11-icons #16309 https://github.com/pharo-project/pharo/pull/16309 - 14700-Shortcut-text-is-not-displayed-correctly-on-a-Mac #16307 https://github.com/pharo-project/pharo/pull/16307 - Fix parsing twice per keystroke in Calypso #16306 https://github.com/pharo-project/pharo/pull/16306 - NativeBrowserOpenVisitor requires typing for strict FFI #16325 https://github.com/pharo-project/pharo/pull/16325 - 15564-No-menubar-in-Mac-OS-Sonoma #16297 https://github.com/pharo-project/pharo/pull/16297 - Refactor RubTextSegmentMorph to support use of a FormSet #16323 https://github.com/pharo-project/pharo/pull/16323 - Make #taskbarButtonMenu: on SystemWindow and MorphicNativeWindow use the FormSet for each of the icons #16296 https://github.com/pharo-project/pharo/pull/16296 - Make #initializeFor: on TaskbarItemMorph use the FormSet for the icon #16316 https://github.com/pharo-project/pharo/pull/16316 - 16332-Bug-in-Transcript #16334 https://github.com/pharo-project/pharo/pull/16334 - Change #transformBy:clippingTo:during:smoothing: on FormCanvas to use BitBlt combination rule 34 instead of 24 #16303 https://github.com/pharo-project/pharo/pull/16303 - remove wrong name #16331 https://github.com/pharo-project/pharo/pull/16331/files - Add pre-filling the name text presenter in file dialogs #717 https://github.com/pharo-spec/NewTools/pull/717 - Allowing to use Texts as HelpText of Presenters #1529 https://github.com/pharo-spec/Spec/pull/1529 # Tools - fix-critics-browser-issue #724 https://github.com/pharo-spec/NewTools/pull/724 - Fixing Version Browser Presenter #721 https://github.com/pharo-spec/NewTools/pull/721 - Showing CMD character in OSX in Spotter #720 https://github.com/pharo-spec/NewTools/pull/720 - Improvements to the Scopes Editor and integration with Pharo #718 https://github.com/pharo-spec/NewTools/pull/718 # Breakpoints - Debug Point Browser integration #697 https://github.com/pharo-spec/NewTools/pull/697 # Refactoring Engine - 16326-Realize-class-menu-option-throws-error-on-any-class #16333 https://github.com/pharo-project/pharo/pull/16333 - Makes user defined scopes available in Refactoring User Interfaces #15918 https://github.com/pharo-project/pharo/pull/15918 - Fix: remove extract method transformation from UI #16301 https://github.com/pharo-project/pharo/pull/16301

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"The Classification Model" â New blog post on all: objects all: theTime
by Koen De Hondt March 20, 2024

March 20, 2024

Dear Pharo users and developers, Last week I told you about a new blog post that outlined the objectives of the Atlas browser. It was the first post of a series. If you liked it, I invite you to read the next post <https://all-objects-all-the-time.st/#/blog/posts/7>. It describes the Classification Model, which is the foundation of Atlas. Happy reading! Ciao, Koen

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This week (11/2024) on the Pharo Issue Tracker
by Marcus Denker March 15, 2024

March 15, 2024

With the freeze, we will see now less PRs being integrated, most of them fixes and tests. If you see bugs in Pharo 12, make sure to check that it is reported on the issue tracker! # Fixes - fix calypso close button #16295 https://github.com/pharo-project/pharo/pull/16295 - Fixing issue #16291 - RBRemoveDirectAccessToVariableTransformationTest is failing #16293 https://github.com/pharo-project/pharo/pull/16293 - Fixes issue: RB - Undo refactoring sometimes not only undo the last changes of refactoring #8103 #16285 https://github.com/pharo-project/pharo/pull/16285 - Update Roassal to v1.06 #16287 https://github.com/pharo-project/pharo/pull/16287 - Remove use of âset -eâ from script âgetPharoVM.shâ #16282 https://github.com/pharo-project/pharo/pull/16282 - Prevents asking for user input twice during the Pushing up method refactoring #16281 https://github.com/pharo-project/pharo/pull/16281 - 16233-ChangeRecordtimeStamp-calls-deprecated-method #16254 https://github.com/pharo-project/pharo/pull/16254 - Fix title display in File Presenter windows #716 https://github.com/pharo-spec/NewTools/pull/716 # Improvements - Add pre-filling the name text presenter in file dialogs #717 https://github.com/pharo-spec/NewTools/pull/717 - Adding tests for debug points + integrating debug points to Calypso Browser #16268 https://github.com/pharo-project/pharo/pull/16268 - Make #taskbarButtonMenu: on SystemWindow and MorphicNativeWindow use the FormSet for each of the icons #16296 https://github.com/pharo-project/pharo/pull/16296 - Refactor MenuItemMorph, PluggableMenuItemSpec and PragmaMenuAndShortcutRegistrationItem to support use of a FormSet and apply that to CmdCommand #16201 https://github.com/pharo-project/pharo/pull/16201

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IWST 24 â International Workshop on Smalltalk Technologies Lille, France; July 8th to 11th, 2024
by Steven Costiou March 14, 2024

March 14, 2024

IWST 24 INFORMATION AND CALL FOR PAPERS IWST 24 -- International Workshop on Smalltalk Technologies Lille, France; July 8th to 11th, 2024 GOALS AND SCOPE The goals of the workshop is to create a forum around contributions and experiences in building or using technologies related to Smalltalk. While maturity of presented ideas and results is not crucial, it is expected that their presentation triggers discussion and exchange of ideas. The topics of your paper can be on all aspect of Smalltalk, theoretical as well as practical. Authors are invited to submit research articles or industrial papers. IMPORTANT DATES * Extended abstract submission deadline: MARCH 31ST, 2024 * Extended abstract notification deadline: April 7th, 2024 * Full/short paper submission deadline: May 19th, 2024 * Full/short paper first-round notification deadline: June 30th, 2024 * Workshop: July 9-10, 2024 * Full/short paper resubmission deadline: July 21st, 2024 * Full/short paper final notification deadline: July 31st, 2024 * Camera ready package submission deadline: August 25th, 2024 TOPICS We welcome contributions on all aspects, theoretical as well as practical, of Smalltalk related topics such as: * Code Analysis * Automated Testing * Debugging * Compilers, Virtual Machines and Language implementations * Meta-programming and Meta-modeling * Refactorings * Design patterns * Experience reports * Libraries and frameworks * New dialects or languages implemented in Smalltalk * Interaction and integration with other languages * Tools SUBMISSIONS, REVIEWS, AND SELECTION Authors interetsed to present their work at the IWST 2024 are invited to submit an abstract of the intended talk before the extended abstract submission deadline. The extended abstract should be not longer than 2 pages following the CEUR ART style [1]. Author of the submitted extended abstratcs will be notified and invited to present their work by the extended abstract notification deadline which enables presenters to register at the early registration prices. Authors of the accepted abstracts are also invited to submit a paper to be subject of the review and a potential acceptance for publishing in the IWST 2024 Proceedings. We are looking for papers of two kinds: * Short position papers (5 to 10 pages) describing fresh ideas and early results. * Full research papers (more than 10 pages) with deeper description of experiments and of research results. Paper accepted for publishing will be published within a CEUR-WS Proceedings [2]. Hence, both submissions and final papers must be prepared using the CEUR ART style [1]. All submissions must be sent via EasyChair submission page [3]. Pay attention, for organisation constraints, when submitting your article you are expected to register to the conference and pay the conference fees. REVIEWING As the workshop format encourages bringing fresh ideas and early results to be presented and discussed, and aims for giving a chance to young community members to learn and grow, we will allow submissions with a discussion potential to be conditionally accepted. In this case, authors are expected to follow the recommendation of the reviewers. Consequently, the reviewing process will be organized in two rounds: * in the first round, all submissions will be reviewed by at least 3 reviewers. Based on these reviews authors will receive a notification with reviewers comments, advises, and requirements and papers that are not rejected will be invited to be resubmitted in an improved form together with change log and answrers to the reviewers. * in the second round, PC chairs in collaboration with the reviewers where needed and possible, will evaluate the improved paper version and notifiy authors about final decision on acceptance/rejection. BEST PAPER AWARD To encourage the submission of high-quality ideas, contributions, and papers, the IWST organizing committee is very proud to announce a Award competition in the categories of BEST IDEA, BEST CONTRIBUTION TO THE COMMUNITY and BEST PAPER FOR THIS EDITION OF IWST. The ranking will be decided by the program committee during the review process and by the audience voting during the conference. The awards will be given during the ESUG conference social event. The Awards will take place only with a minimum of six submissions. Notice also that to be eligible, a paper/abstract must be presented at the workshop by one of the author and that the presenting author must be registered at the ESUG conference. PROGRAM CHAIRS * Steven Costiou, Inria Lille, France (chair), * Guille Polito, Inria Lille, France (chair), * Gordana Rakic, University of Novi Sad, Serbia (chair) PROGRAM COMMITTEE to be published ... Links: ------ [1] https://ceur-ws.org/Vol-XXX/CEURART.zip [2] imap://scostiou@zimbra.inria.fr:993/fetch%3EUID%3E/Sent%3E105178?part=1.2.2&filename=text.html [3] https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=iwst2024

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"Introducing Atlas" â New blog post on all: objects all: theTime
by Koen De Hondt March 13, 2024

March 13, 2024

Dear Pharo users and developers, Some people already know that I am working on a browser for Pharo. With this announcement, I make it official ð. In my latest blog post <https://all-objects-all-the-time.st/#/blog/posts/6>, I introduce Atlas as an ambitious successor of Calypso. It is the first post in a series. Happy reading! Ciao, Koen

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ESUG24 Call for Student Volunteers, 8-11 July, Lille, France
by Steven Costiou March 12, 2024

March 12, 2024

CALL FOR STUDENT VOLUNTEERS, ESUG 2024, 8-11 JULY, LILLE, FRANCE Student volunteers help the conference running smoothly; in return, they have free accommodations, while still having most of the time to enjoy the conference. PAY ATTENTION: the places are limited so do not wait till the last minute to apply. CONFERENCE DETAILS: Send an email to volunteers-esug24(a)inria.fr. * title: [ESUG 2024 Student] * name, gender, university/school, country, email address * short description of you and why you are interested in participating Accommodation is covered from Sunday 7 July until 8 Thursday July 2024 (including nights from Sunday to Monday and from Thursday to Friday). Students will be hosted in student rooms. ESUG additionally covers for the lunches during the week and one dinner. Travel costs are *not* covered by the student volunteers program. Duties include handling registration as people arrive at the conference, filling coffee machines, collecting presentation slides for ESUG right after the presentation is given, being present at an information desk to answer questions, and generally being helpful. Student volunteering makes the conference better, takes a fairly small amount of time and doesn't significantly interfere with enjoying and learning from the conference. Please note, this role requires discipline and constant attention to all attendees.

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[ANN] Pharo 12 development is now frozen
by Esteban Lorenzano March 12, 2024

March 12, 2024

Hi, As we announced a couple of weeks ago, Pharo 12 development entered its freeze status. This means no more new features will be included, we will concentrate until release just in important bugfixes. If you have an issue that you consider a showstopper for your workflow/needs, let us now and we will consider it. Cheers! Esteban

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This week (10/2024) on the Pharo Issue Tracker
by Marcus Denker March 11, 2024

March 11, 2024

# Pharo 10 - Fix for: UFFI/TFFI call for WebBrowser with specific URL length adds strange characters to the URL #15980 #16253 https://github.com/pharo-project/pharo/pull/16253 # Pharo 11 - Fix for: UFFI/TFFI call for WebBrowser with specific URL length adds strange characters to the URL #15980 #16284 https://github.com/pharo-project/pharo/pull/16284 # Fixes - do not spam selectPage: #1528 https://github.com/pharo-spec/Spec/pull/1528 - Restore original message String #16274 https://github.com/pharo-project/pharo/pull/16274 - Fix Method name editor dialog up/down buttons #16273 https://github.com/pharo-project/pharo/pull/16273 - Fix Bug: OrderedDictionary>>#at:at:put: not updating ordered keys #16260 https://github.com/pharo-project/pharo/pull/16260 - Minor improvement in TF test class #16257 https://github.com/pharo-project/pharo/pull/16257 - Fix #magnifyBy:smoothing: on OSSDL2ExternalForm #16225 https://github.com/pharo-project/pharo/pull/16225 - fix a failing test #714 https://github.com/pharo-spec/NewTools/pull/714 # Improvements - Make #reportTestCase:runBlock: on HDTestReport print the test run time on the progress log stream #16266 https://github.com/pharo-project/pharo/pull/16266 # Refactoring Engine - Fix: rename method shortcut #16251 https://github.com/pharo-project/pharo/pull/16251 - Remove unused instance variable in #ReRenameMethodRefactoring #16279 https://github.com/pharo-project/pharo/pull/16279 - Fix: rename method preconditions fail with DNU #16270 https://github.com/pharo-project/pharo/pull/16270 - Test: rename method driver #16269 https://github.com/pharo-project/pharo/pull/16269 - Cleanup: rename method refactoring driver to new architecture with breaking choices #16258 https://github.com/pharo-project/pharo/pull/16258 # Cleanups - Refactor various âworldMenuâ registration methods to use #iconName: instead of #icon: #711 https://github.com/pharo-spec/NewTools/pull/711 - Updated baseline of Dependency analyzer #16278 https://github.com/pharo-project/pharo/pull/16278 - 16246-CI-Failing-test-SystemDependenciesTesttestExternalIDEDependencies #16264 https://github.com/pharo-project/pharo/pull/16264

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