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"Hera Released" â New blog post on all: objects all: theTime

by Koen De Hondt

Dear Pharo users and developers, It took some time to get the first release out, but it is finally here. Hera 1.0 has been released. See https://all-objects-all-the-time.st/#/blog/posts/14. As always, all feedback is welcome. I will present and demo Hera at ESUGâ25. I hope to see you there. Happy reading! Ciao, Koen

June 19, 2025

My development tools

by Aik-Siong Koh

Hi: I want to share my development experience over the decades and see if Pharo can provide the tools I love. I hope others will share their experiences and tools too so we can enrich it other and shortlist the tools for Pharo to have. Notepad++ I use it for text editing. Its Find, Replace, Find All in Current Document, Find in Files, are so simple and comprehensive. Everything I use it to search for any filename on my PC. It is so simple, reliable and super fast. Match Path can match any disjointed strings of fullpath name. I love it. WinMerge Great for comparing files, directories or pasted text. 2 or 3 panes compare. Very obvious how to merge. Windows Alt+Tab to switch windows I always use Maximum Window size for every application window on an 18inch notebook. No need to turn head. Less eyeball movement. Faster too. I can compare screens using Alt-Tab fast to show differences as flickers. LibreOffice or OpenOffice I use it for my documentation of text, math and drawings. The math fonts are truly pleasing for my eyes and brain. I think it is absolutely important to get the math and theory derived before programming code. Then code execution feedback to the formulation and the process iterates. WhatsApp, Google Meet I use for texting and video conferencing. So efficient for problem solving. ChatGPT I use it for world knowledge. Love the step by step instructions in software development and example code. I think it is showing beyond human capabilities already. FreeCAD I use it for 3D solid modeling. It is current scriptable using Python. I hope to control it with Smalltalk. I am just a user of the above software. If those capabilities are in Pharo, then I will be a master of those capabilities. That is my main idea. All the best, Aik-Siong Koh

June 14, 2025

Pharo News of the Week 24/2025

by Marcus Denker

# Pharo News of the Week 24/2025 - [Github] PharoSandGame https://github.com/PosledniAmir/PharoSandGame - [ANN] Pharo Paper Collection surpases 200 entries https://pharo.org/news/2025-06-10-HAL.html - [ANN] GitMiner: a Pharo Smalltalk library that helps developers in analyzing git repositories https://github.com/USIREVEAL/gitminer If you want to add your news to this list, use this form: https://tinyurl.com/4c89buy4 # The week on the Pharo Issue Tracker # Pharo 13 - Fix closing window shortcuts in combination with window groups #18116 https://github.com/pharo-project/pharo/pull/18116 - [Pharo13] Update Roassal to new Released version #18262 https://github.com/pharo-project/pharo/pull/18262 - Fix package selection in the new Finder #1128 https://github.com/pharo-spec/NewTools/pull/1128 - 1143 Cannot set the protocol of a method using StProtocolNameChooserPresenter #1144 https://github.com/pharo-spec/NewTools/pull/1144 - Fix Finder source search with class side #1129 https://github.com/pharo-spec/NewTools/pull/1129 # Fixes - Use Color>>#relativeLuminance in contrast methods #18272 https://github.com/pharo-project/pharo/pull/18272 - Fixing the Toplo Version #18263 https://github.com/pharo-project/pharo/pull/18263 - Fix: cleanup undeclared registry after renaming a class #18260 https://github.com/pharo-project/pharo/pull/18260 - [Pharo14] Fix closing window shortcuts in combination with window groups #18256 https://github.com/pharo-project/pharo/pull/18256 # Tests - Fixing broken tests #18275 https://github.com/pharo-project/pharo/pull/18275 - Improve assertions of MCStWriterTest>>#testClassMethodDefinition #18268 https://github.com/pharo-project/pharo/pull/18268 # Cleanup - Deprecate Morphic lists #18244 https://github.com/pharo-project/pharo/pull/18244 - Removing Dead Code #1161 https://github.com/pharo-spec/NewTools/pull/1161 - Clean breakpoints #1155 https://github.com/pharo-spec/NewTools/pull/1155 # Tools - P13 sync #1163 https://github.com/pharo-spec/NewTools/pull/1163 - Correct bug on swich profile functionnality #1162 https://github.com/pharo-spec/NewTools/pull/1162 - Implement script save/load support in Sindarin debugger presenter #1156 https://github.com/pharo-spec/NewTools/pull/1156 - using world position percentage for placeholders #1154 https://github.com/pharo-spec/NewTools/pull/1154 - Profile menu interaction changes #1153 https://github.com/pharo-spec/NewTools/pull/1153 - Fixing missing code in StSindarinDebuggerScriptingPresenter #1134 https://github.com/pharo-spec/NewTools/pull/1134 - added disableActivationDuring to SpAbstractEasypresenter #1778 https://github.com/pharo-spec/Spec/pull/1778 # Documentation / Website - add news HAL #98 https://github.com/pharo-project/pharo-website/pull/98 - Add comment to Class>>#rename: #18257 https://github.com/pharo-project/pharo/pull/18257 - Create Tutorial.md for profile description #18267 https://github.com/pharo-project/pharo/pull/18267

June 13, 2025

Pharo News of the Week 23/2025

by Marcus Denker

# Pharo News of the Week 23/2025 - [GSoC 2025] Accepted Pharo Projects: https://pharo.org/news/2025-06-04-GSOC.html - [ANN] Pharo VM 10.3.5 Released https://pharo.org/news/2025-06-04-VM-10-3-5.html - [ANN] docker-pharo-vm v10.3.5-2025-06-04 https://github.com/ba-st/docker-pharo-vm/releases/tag/v10.3.5-2025-06-04 - [ESUG 2025] Call for the Innovation Technology Awards https://esug.org/2025-Conference/awardsCall2025.html # The week on the Pharo Issue Tracker # Pharo 11 - Update Microdown Baseline branch to Pharo11 #18112 https://github.com/pharo-project/pharo/pull/18112 # Pharo 13 - [Pharo13] Adding validation of the hierarchy for all the slots #18243 https://github.com/pharo-project/pharo/pull/18243 - Fix for #18225: Be robust against unintentionally sending #initialize to a Trait (Pharo 13) #18238 https://github.com/pharo-project/pharo/pull/18238 - [P13 Backport] Fix: Rubric error when jumping to previous word and string begins with separators #18232 https://github.com/pharo-project/pharo/pull/18232 - [Port to P13] Closing repo before delete #1935 https://github.com/pharo-vcs/iceberg/pull/1935 # Pharo 14 # Bugs - 18253-ProcessorScheduler--nextReadyProcess-should-return-a-process-not-the-suspended-context #18254 https://github.com/pharo-project/pharo/pull/18254 - Adding validation of the hierarchy for all the slots #18242 https://github.com/pharo-project/pharo/pull/18242 - Fix for #18225: Be robust against unintentionally sending #initialize to a Trait (Pharo 14) #18237 https://github.com/pharo-project/pharo/pull/18237 - OSWindow-SDL2: setCursor if window is focused and when focus is gained #18235 https://github.com/pharo-project/pharo/pull/18235 - Fix: Rubric error when jumping to previous word and string begins with separators #18208 https://github.com/pharo-project/pharo/pull/18208 - Fix issue #18189: MorphicWindowManagerTest makes Pharo unresponsive #18201 https://github.com/pharo-project/pharo/pull/18201 - Closing Repository Before Delete #1934 https://github.com/pharo-vcs/iceberg/pull/1934 # Spec - Add testing capabilities for modals #1777 https://github.com/pharo-spec/Spec/pull/1777 - Announce willclose and resizing in modals #1776 https://github.com/pharo-spec/Spec/pull/1776 - Add styling for lists morphic backend #1775 https://github.com/pharo-spec/Spec/pull/1775 - easy family was missing add style connected to content view #1774 https://github.com/pharo-spec/Spec/pull/1774 - Fix cleanText icon in search input text #1773 https://github.com/pharo-spec/Spec/pull/1773 # Tools - Displaying a collection name with the size with string with commas #18251 https://github.com/pharo-project/pharo/pull/18251 - 18214 refactoring UI error when pushing up method if same one exists in superclass #18228 https://github.com/pharo-project/pharo/pull/18228 - fix-and-reintroduce-cpu-watcher #1147 https://github.com/pharo-spec/NewTools/pull/1147 - Pop up strategy fix #1141 https://github.com/pharo-spec/NewTools/pull/1141 # Graphics - Fix off-by-one in Color>>#isContrastCompliantFor* #18250 https://github.com/pharo-project/pharo/pull/18250 # Cleanup - Renaming the references to SpWindow to SpWindowMorph #1145 https://github.com/pharo-spec/NewTools/pull/1145 - Remove CommandLineUIManager #18229 https://github.com/pharo-project/pharo/pull/18229 - Remove dead code un UIManager #18143 https://github.com/pharo-project/pharo/pull/18143 - Remove MonticelloGUI #18230 https://github.com/pharo-project/pharo/pull/18230 - Cleanup #isInteractive and #isHeadless #18231 https://github.com/pharo-project/pharo/pull/18231 - Replace #isInteractiveGraphic by #isInteractive #1142 https://github.com/pharo-spec/NewTools/pull/1142 - Clean deprecations in ReAbstractRule #18246 https://github.com/pharo-project/pharo/pull/18246 - Simplify WebBrowser logic #18245 https://github.com/pharo-project/pharo/pull/18245 - Fix some release tests #18233 https://github.com/pharo-project/pharo/pull/18233 # VM - Adding statistics for comparing compiled cog methods' code size and metadata size #974 https://github.com/pharo-project/pharo-vm/pull/974 - [P12] Fix OBS Build #981 https://github.com/pharo-project/pharo-vm/pull/981 - [P10] Fix OBS Build #980 https://github.com/pharo-project/pharo-vm/pull/980 - Preparing Release 10.3.5 #979 https://github.com/pharo-project/pharo-vm/pull/979 - [Pharo12] Updating SDL2 to 2.32.6 for Windows (x86_64) and MacOS (ARM and Intel) #978 https://github.com/pharo-project/pharo-vm/pull/978 - Updating SDL2 to 2.32.6 for Windows (x86_64) and MacOS (ARM and Intel) #977 https://github.com/pharo-project/pharo-vm/pull/977 - [Pharo12] Set the size of larger indexable object allocated in the young space #976 https://github.com/pharo-project/pharo-vm/pull/976 - Set the size of larger indexable object allocated in the young space #975 https://github.com/pharo-project/pharo-vm/pull/975 # Website - New Pharo VM #97 https://github.com/pharo-project/pharo-website/pull/97 - Fix links #96 https://github.com/pharo-project/pharo-website/pull/96

June 6, 2025

Re: 20th Smalltalk Technology Innovation Awards!

by Noury Bouraqadi

Fixed. It's indeed july 1st. Thank you Kasper! On Thu, Jun 5, 2025 at 11:07â¯AM Kasper Osterbye <kasper.osterbye(a)gmail.com> wrote: > It seems like https://esug.org/2025-Conference/awardsCall2025.html mentions Monday > July 8th, where as the https://esug.org/2025-Conference/agenda.html uses > dates July 1 to July 4th. I hope the latter is the dates. > > â Kasper > > On 5 Jun 2025, at 10.55, Noury Bouraqadi <bouraqadi(a)gmail.com> wrote: > > Hi Fellow Smalltalkers ! > > As part of the ESUG yearly conference, we're organizing the Smalltalk > Technology Innovation Awards. This will be the 20th edition! > > The goal is to celebrate Smalltalk-related software. > > Please consider joining us: > 1. Just fill this very short form https://forms.gle/8k8DwauZj8VJb6cu9 > 2. Give a demo on Tuesday 1st of July during the ESUG conference > > Find out more > https://esug.org/2025-Conference/awardsCall2025.html > > Looking forward to seeing you in Gdansk, > Noury > > > -- Noury Bouraqadi

June 5, 2025

Re: 20th Smalltalk Technology Innovation Awards!

by Kasper Osterbye

It seems like https://esug.org/2025-Conference/awardsCall2025.html mentions Monday July 8th, where as the https://esug.org/2025-Conference/agenda.html uses dates July 1 to July 4th. I hope the latter is the dates. â Kasper > On 5 Jun 2025, at 10.55, Noury Bouraqadi <bouraqadi(a)gmail.com> wrote: > > Hi Fellow Smalltalkers ! > > As part of the ESUG yearly conference, we're organizing the Smalltalk Technology Innovation Awards. This will be the 20th edition! > > The goal is to celebrate Smalltalk-related software. > > Please consider joining us: > 1. Just fill this very short form https://forms.gle/8k8DwauZj8VJb6cu9 > 2. Give a demo on Tuesday 1st of July during the ESUG conference > > Find out more > https://esug.org/2025-Conference/awardsCall2025.html > > Looking forward to seeing you in Gdansk, > Noury

June 5, 2025

20th Smalltalk Technology Innovation Awards!

by Noury Bouraqadi

Hi Fellow Smalltalkers ! As part of the ESUG yearly conference, we're organizing the Smalltalk Technology Innovation Awards. This will be the 20th edition! The goal is to celebrate Smalltalk-related software. Please consider joining us: 1. Just fill this very short form https://forms.gle/8k8DwauZj8VJb6cu9 2. Give a demo on Tuesday 1st of July during the ESUG conference Find out more https://esug.org/2025-Conference/awardsCall2025.html Looking forward to seeing you in Gdansk, Noury

June 5, 2025

Pharo VM 10.3.5

by tesonep＠gmail.com

Hi everybody, we have a new release of the VM 10.3.5. Sorry if you have this announcement from different sources. This new version includes: - Removed unused temp in findNewMethodOrdinaryIfFound: by @kumom in #951, - Remove set cursor C code #210 by @kumom in #952, - Fix PharoWorker value when coming from plist file by @demarey in #972, - Log worker mode by @demarey in #971, - Updating SDL2 to 2.32.6 for Windows (x86_64) and MacOS (ARM and Intel) by @Pablo Tesone in #977, - Set the size of larger indexable object allocated in the young space by @Pablo Tesone in #975, Full Changelog: https://github.com/pharo-project/pharo-vm/compare/v10.3.4...v10.3.5 This Version fix a really nasty issue when changing the resolution of the monitors in Windows. Thanks so much to all the people who helped us to identify it and to provide workarounds and the final solution that depended on updating SDL. It is a good moment to update your VMs from the launcher, if you are using zeroconf, it will arrive automatically, and if you use OBS packages, they are also updated. This release applies to Pharo 11, 12, 13 and 14. Thank you so much to all the contributors and all the issue reporters! Pablo on Behalf of all the Pharo team. -- Pablo Tesone. tesonep(a)gmail.com

June 4, 2025

Pharo News of the Week 22/2025

by Marcus Denker

# Pharo News of the Week 22/2025 - [MOOC] The closing date for the MOOC âAdvanced object oriented design and development with Pharoâ has been extended to December 31, 2025 https://www.fun-mooc.fr/en/courses/advanced-object-oriented-design-and-deve… # The week on the Pharo Issue Tracker # Pharo 13 - fix first doc paragraph #18194 https://github.com/pharo-project/pharo/pull/18194 - bump iceberg to v2.4.1 #18210 https://github.com/pharo-project/pharo/pull/18210 - bump NewTools to v0.10.3 #18207 https://github.com/pharo-project/pharo/pull/18207 - bump NewTools to v0.10.2 #18204 https://github.com/pharo-project/pharo/pull/18204 - fix typo #1137 https://github.com/pharo-spec/NewTools/pull/1137 - restore CompiledMethod>>inspectionSource: #1135 https://github.com/pharo-spec/NewTools/pull/1135 - restore extension lost when renamed IRMethod to OCIRMethod #1131 https://github.com/pharo-spec/NewTools/pull/1131 # Pharo 14 - Load P14 branch of most projects #18206 https://github.com/pharo-project/pharo/pull/18206 - Changing Iceberg Version to Pharo14 branch #18196 https://github.com/pharo-project/pharo/pull/18196 - Fix 18134: A bug and a strange flow of "Add argument" refactoring #18205 https://github.com/pharo-project/pharo/pull/18205 - Update P14 with P13 #18200 https://github.com/pharo-project/pharo/pull/18200 - fixing global completion. #18198 https://github.com/pharo-project/pharo/pull/18198 - fix typo #1138 https://github.com/pharo-spec/NewTools/pull/1138 - restore CompiledMethod>>inspectionSource: #1136 https://github.com/pharo-spec/NewTools/pull/1136 - restore extension lost when renamed IRMethod to OCIRMethod #1132 https://github.com/pharo-spec/NewTools/pull/1132 - Port the Iceberg merge browser to Spec #1924 https://github.com/pharo-vcs/iceberg/pull/1924 # VM - When Getting profile data from a PIC it should extract int32 constants for cache tags. #969 https://github.com/pharo-project/pharo-vm/pull/969 - Use Pharo14 branches of dependencies #1933 https://github.com/pharo-vcs/iceberg/pull/1933 - Porting to pharo12 changes in plist parameters #973 https://github.com/pharo-project/pharo-vm/pull/973 - fix PharoWorker value when coming from plist file #972 https://github.com/pharo-project/pharo-vm/pull/972 - log worker mode #971 https://github.com/pharo-project/pharo-vm/pull/971 # Website - News release pharo13 #92 https://github.com/pharo-project/pharo-website/pull/92 # Launcher - Add Moose 13 as stable Moose #712 https://github.com/pharo-project/pharo-launcher/pull/712

June 3, 2025

Installation difficulties was: [Pharo-users] [ANN] Pharo 13 Released!

by Bernhard Pieber

Dear Pharo Team, To try out version 13 I tried to follow the instructions on https://pharo.org/download. First I clicked on the download link for my system: https://files.pharo.org/pharo-launcher/mac-x64, I mounted the .dmg and dragged PharoLauncher.app to my Applications folder. When I started Pharo Launcher it did not show me the stable version for Pharo 13, just the development version, nor the Pharo 14 development version. Then I tried the Command Line install: curl -L https://get.pharo.org | bash However, this still downloads Pharo 12. I could not follow the instructions for the Pharo standalone install because the link to the 64bit Pharo image is broken. Then I asked on Discord about Pharo Launcher and someone told me to delete the sources.list file in ~/Documents/Pharo as a workaround. So I was able to run Pharo 13 in the end. However, I wanted to let you know about my difficulties anyway because newbies might run into the same problems. Cheers, Bernhard > Am 23.05.2025 um 08:56 schrieb Esteban Lorenzano via Pharo-users <pharo-users(a)lists.pharo.org>: > > Dear Pharo users and dynamic language lovers: > > We have released [Pharo](https://pharo.org/) version 13! > > What is Pharo? > > Pharo is a pure object-oriented programming language and a powerful environment focused on simplicity and immediate feedback. > > [Screenshot of Pharo 13] > > <Pharo13.png> > > - Simple & powerful language: No constructors, no types declaration, no interfaces, no primitive types. Yet a powerful and elegant language with a full syntax fitting in one postcard! Pharo is objects and messages all the way down. > - Live, immersive environment: Immediate feedback at any moment of your development: Developing, testing, debugging. Even in production environments, you will never be stuck in compiling and deploying steps again! > - Amazing debugging experience: Pharo environment includes a debugger unlike anything youâve seen before. It allows you to step through code, restart the execution of methods, create methods on the fly, and much more! > - Pharo is yours: Pharo is made by an incredible community, with more than 100 contributors for the last revision of the platform and hundreds of people constantly contributing with frameworks and libraries. > - Fully open-source: Pharo full stack is released under [MIT](https://opensource.org/licenses/MIT) License and available on [GitHub](https://github.com/pharo-project/pharo) > â¦ more on the [Pharo Features page](http://www.pharo.org/features). > > In this iteration of Pharo, we continue working on our objectives of improvement, clean-up and modularization. > Also, we included a number of usability and speed improvements. > A detailed list of changes and improvements is available in our [Changelog](https://github.com/pharo-project/pharo-changelogs/tree/master/we… (weekly based) > > Some highlights of this amazing version: > > Highlights > > Tools > > - Spec Tools remembering their size > - Microdown enhancements > - HDPI support > - Zoomable UI > - New list, tables and trees, allowing any presenter as their content > - Better source code text navigation and edition > - New Process Browser > - New Transcript (introducing also the Object Transcript) > - Organic window manager > > System > > - Better refactorings UX Cleaner leaner code logic > - More robust and faster halt implementation > - Debug points to enhance the debugging experience > - Clean-ups > > Virtual machine > > - Async IO using epoll on unixes > - Faster byte array / string comparisons > - Improve Windows support for non ASCII filenames > - FreeBSD support > - Update SDL2 version in OSX (Intel & Apple) > - Minimal MacOS version required raised to MacOS 11 and above > > Development Effort > > This new version is the result of 698 Pull Requests integrated just in the Pharo repository. > We have closed 865 issues and received contributions from more than 70 different contributors. > We also have a lot of work in the separate projects that are included in each Pharo release: > > - http://github.com/pharo-spec/NewTools > - http://github.com/pharo-spec/Spec > - http://github.com/pharo-vcs/Iceberg > - https://github.com/pharo-graphics/Roassal > - http://github.com/pillar-markup/Microdown > - http://github.com/pillar-markup/BeautifulComments > - http://github.com/pharo-project/pharo-vm > > Contributors > > We always say Pharo is yours. It is yours because we made it for you, but most importantly, because it is made by the invaluable contributions of our great community (yourself). > A large community of people from all around the world contributed to Pharo 13.0 by making pull requests, reporting bugs, participating in discussion threads, providing feedback, and a lot of helpful tasks in all our community channels. > Thank you all for your contributions. > > The Pharo Team > > Discover Pharo: https://pharo.org/features > > Try Pharo: http://pharo.org/download > > Learn Pharo: http://pharo.org/documentation > > â

May 30, 2025