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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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13204 Hard to see Morph halo label
by Ben Coman May 1, 2014

May 1, 2014

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About fonts
by stepharo May 1, 2014

May 1, 2014

Hi pharoers I found the problems with the fonts and now I understand one of the possible way Roassal got broken. Imagine the following FT is on -> roassal works perfectly (using vectorial fonts) the standard fonts (default, code and others) are using vector graphics font. I deselect FT -> defaults and other are now in strike fonts like vera I reselect FT -> the defaults are still in strike fonts and this will then lead to errors in roassal. So I think that we should have a real object handling the restore and others. I will try to have a look in the end of the week. stef

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Re: [Pharo-dev] [Pharo-users] Pharo 3 minor issue
by Esteban Lorenzano May 1, 2014

May 1, 2014

thanks for reporting, I will look at it (super weird that it did not arise before :( ) Esteban On 30 Apr 2014, at 20:54, giorgio ferraris <giorgio.ferraris(a)gmail.com> wrote: > Hi, > > started looking at Pharo after many years. > First of all, you all did an awesome works, thank you! > There is a small problems on System Browser > open image > open system browser > choose one class > select group > The class side checkbox is enabled, if you check it, you get a wall bak . > Giorgio > > <Screen Shot 2014-04-30 at 20.42.03.jpg>

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how can I have a working roassal 3d ?
by ClÃ©ment Bera May 1, 2014

May 1, 2014

Hello, I wanted to show some 3D visualization with Pharo to some people (because you know, non IT people are only impressed by robots and 3d, so I cannot show them a compiler). On the Pharo 3 release, in the configuration browser, I clicked on Roassal3d then 'Install stable version'. Then I was not able to run a single example of R3Example, I always got: [image: Images intÃ©grÃ©es 1] How can I have an image with Roassal3D working ? I would like to try to draw a 3D fractal too (I love fractals). Thanks !

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Pharo RPi and FileSystem error
by jannik laval April 30, 2014

April 30, 2014

Hi all, I have an error on Pharo 3, with RPi. The error is UnixResolver>>Can't find the request origin To reproduce it, just run this line: --- FileLocator home exists Thank you for your help. -- ~~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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good article on mainstream adoption of programming languages
by Johan Brichau April 30, 2014

April 30, 2014

Since this discussion often returns on this mailinglist, here is a good article. It focuses on Haskell, but a lot of arguments apply to Smalltalk as well. http://www.forbes.com/sites/quora/2014/04/29/what-do-you-think-is-impeding-… cheers Johan

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[OT] The Sociological Science Behind Social Networks and Social Influence
by Sebastian Sastre April 30, 2014

April 30, 2014

Not exactly pharo-dev related but people related and Pharo is done by people and this might contribute to understand the dynamics of people: Nicholas Christakis: The Sociological Science Behind Social Networks and Social Influence http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wadBvDPeE4E

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