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[Pharo-project] a thought for Finder
by Ben Coman Aug. 19, 2012

Aug. 19, 2012

Just a thought on my personal usage of Finder (in Pharo 1.4). I find the majority of my use of the <Choose Packages> button in Finder is continually filtering on the same subset of packages. This subset may be different for different contexts that I am working in, but within each context it is fairly consistent. For instance, if I'm looking at the internals of Alexandre Bergel's Roassal package, then I am always choosing all of those packages. Further, I never seem to find myself using the <All packages> button. I seem to always just open a new Finder since I usually haven't finished with the "Roassal" one and this is quicker than later again filtering on "Roassal." My proposal is that the two buttons <Choose Packages> and <All Packages> be replaced by a pull down list for which the first two items would be the same as the buttons it replaces, plus my saved "context package filters". cheers -ben

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[Pharo-project] numLiterals > 0 is that possible?
by Mariano Martinez Peck Aug. 18, 2012

Aug. 18, 2012

Hi guys. Right now we have methodClass "answer the class that I am installed in" ^self numLiterals > 0 ifTrue: [ (self literalAt: self numLiterals) value ] ifFalse: [ nil ] But of course my image has no method with 0 literals: (CompiledMethod allInstances select: [:each | each numLiterals = 0 ]) size -> 0 So...can this really happen? or I can just remove the if ? thanks -- Mariano http://marianopeck.wordpress.com

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[Pharo-project] [update 2.0] #20258
by Esteban Lorenzano Aug. 17, 2012

Aug. 17, 2012

20258 ----- Issue 5870: [BUG] FileSystem>>rename:to: causes DNU http://code.google.com/p/pharo/issues/detail?id=5870

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[Pharo-project] Trying to understand Class >> category
by Mariano Martinez Peck Aug. 17, 2012

Aug. 17, 2012

Hi guys. I need a category expert to explain why we have the following: Class >> category "Answer the system organization category for the receiver. First check whether the category name stored in the ivar is still correct and only if this fails look it up (latter is much more expensive)" | result | self basicCategory ifNotNil: [ :symbol | ((self environment organization listAtCategoryNamed: symbol) includes: self name) ifTrue: [ ^symbol ] ]. self basicCategory: (result := self environment organization categoryOfElement: self name). ^result So...how can a class store an "incorrect" category? Or in other words.... can PackageInfo >> includesClass: aClass ^ self includesSystemCategory: aClass theNonMetaClass category use #basicCategory (simple accessor) rather than #category? thanks, -- Mariano http://marianopeck.wordpress.com

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[Pharo-project] [update 2.0] #20256
by Marcus Denker Aug. 17, 2012

Aug. 17, 2012

20256 ----- Issue 6573: [ENH]: Port Fix 6562 to Pharo 2.0 http://code.google.com/p/pharo/issues/detail?id=6573 Issue 6572: more selection out of bounds fixes for List morphs http://code.google.com/p/pharo/issues/detail?id=6572 Issue 6533: Spec fixed in KMDescription http://code.google.com/p/pharo/issues/detail?id=6533 Issue 6399: Small Keymapping Improvement http://code.google.com/p/pharo/issues/detail?id=6399 -- Marcus Denker -- http://marcusdenker.de

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[Pharo-project] [update 2.0] #20254
by Esteban Lorenzano Aug. 17, 2012

Aug. 17, 2012

20254 ----- Issue 6571: update Ring http://code.google.com/p/pharo/issues/detail?id=6571 (step 2) - removed zombie methods

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[Pharo-project] [update 2.0] #20253
by Esteban Lorenzano Aug. 17, 2012

Aug. 17, 2012

20253 ----- Issue 6571: update Ring http://code.google.com/p/pharo/issues/detail?id=6571 (step 1)

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[Pharo-project] [update 1.4] #14459
by Marcus Denker Aug. 17, 2012

Aug. 17, 2012

14459 ----- Issue 6562: [ENH 1.4]: Load Startup Scripts before Arguments http://code.google.com/p/pharo/issues/detail?id=6562 Issue 6566: joining dictionaries does not work properly http://code.google.com/p/pharo/issues/detail?id=6566 -- Marcus Denker -- http://marcusdenker.de

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[Pharo-project] [update 2.0] #20251
by Marcus Denker Aug. 17, 2012

Aug. 17, 2012

20251 ----- Issue 6559: RPackage importing does not honor class side extension methods http://code.google.com/p/pharo/issues/detail?id=6559 Issue 6558: CompiledMethod>>#package does not resolve well with Class side methods http://code.google.com/p/pharo/issues/detail?id=6558 Issue 6450: typo exitSucess http://code.google.com/p/pharo/issues/detail?id=6450 -- Marcus Denker -- http://marcusdenker.de

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[Pharo-project] Dr. Geo for acadamy
by Hilaire Fernandes Aug. 17, 2012

Aug. 17, 2012

Hello, Thinking aloud. May be I already discussed the following ideas with some of you. Dr. Geo is now mature enough to learn from it and to propose it as a tool students in computer science and/or mathematics can use for final projects or study projects. The idea is to propose student programming projects around Dr. Geo. A list of projects should be drafted and designed to be appropriate for students. I am not really sure about the level of difficulties, the duration such project could take, but listing ideas could be a good start. Moreover, I don't know if the idea elaborated in this document make any sense, so your feedback on that point would be greatly appreciated as well. Another requirement could be to list why students will benefit working in a project around Dr. Geo, to be done later if the idea take off. Regarding Dr. Geo project itself the benefice is more to gain in visibility and not in contributions coming from students work, indeed sudents will more likely maintain the project only for the duration of their studies. But more visibility on Dr. Geo can mean more long term contributors, hopefully from the academic sector. Dr. Geo need it to scale up and to compete with other alike project like GeoGebra where the contributors are numerous. If not, Dr. Geo will remain an epiphenomena and the great concept behind Dr. Geo, modify me from myself, will be lost. Regarding the project ideas, I see two categories: projects of interest for Dr. Geo and other Smalltalk ones and projects tightly related to Dr. Geo core. 1. Projects of interest for Dr. Geo and other Smallktalk software: - framework to render latex formula - mini-worksheet package to embed in an application - supplementary Polymorph widgets - mini algebraic system for symbolic manipulation of mathematic expressions - proof system, prolog or purely Smalltalk based 2. Projects tightly tied to Dr. Geo: - SVG, EPS exporters - new UI paradigm to build interactive sketch - porting to other system, closely related to Virtual Machinery - More constructions tools, it is a very good teachable as it dives you in an application with a lot of design patterns in action. See following document https://blueprints.launchpad.net/drgeo/+spec/todo-to-implement-new-tool There are more ideas. If you think about any person involved in the academic sector, please forward, this is why I wrote the document in Frenglish after all. Thanks Hilaire Fernandes -- Dr. Geo - http://www.drgeo.eu -- Dr. Geo - http://www.drgeo.eu

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