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by Christophe Demarey

Dear Pharo users, We would like to inform you that the files.pharo.org service will be unavailable due to an electrical maintenance intervention in the server room. Downtime Schedule (CET): Start: Thursday, January 2nd, 6:00 PM End: Friday, January 3rd, 10:00 AM We apologize for any inconvenience this may cause and thank you for your understanding. Best regards, The Pharo team Ps: Pharo Launcher and smalltalk-ci uses this service to get fresh Pharo images.

Dec. 23, 2024

Pharo News of the Week 51/2024

by Marcus Denker

# Pharo News of the Week 51/2024 - [ANN] pharox-dependency-visualizer: This tool helps understand/untangle dependencies https://github.com/ironirc/pharox-dependency-visualizer - [ANN] A Pharo/Bloc port of the example code from The Nature of Code book by Daniel Shiffman https://github.com/lucretiomsp/nature-of-code-pharo - [ANN] Pharo UFFI binding with the rtmidi library https://github.com/ironirc/pharo-rtmidi - [ANN] Poster from Audio Developer Conference 2024: "Phausto: fast and accessible DSP programming in Pharo" https://hal.science/hal-04813572v1/file/ADC2024-poster.pdf The weekly newsletter takes a break for the rest of the year. We wish already a happy new year and will be back in the second week of January.! # The week on the Pharo Issue Tracker # Pharo 12 - Fix compiler literals p12 #17532 https://github.com/pharo-project/pharo/pull/17532 # VM - Fixes for 10.3.2 #885 https://github.com/pharo-project/pharo-vm/pull/885 - Enhancement(versionning): Extract full semantic version from git #884 https://github.com/pharo-project/pharo-vm/pull/884 # Features - Breakpoints in debugger #920 https://github.com/pharo-spec/NewTools/pull/920 - Sorting items in bag inspector by default #915 https://github.com/pharo-spec/NewTools/pull/915 - Using the dedicated pointers to image #1647 https://github.com/pharo-spec/Spec/pull/1647 # Fixes - Fix: #17531: We can use string instead of symbols in slot in class definition #17531 #17537 https://github.com/pharo-project/pharo/pull/17537 - fix-SDL-default-renderer-by-platform #17517 https://github.com/pharo-project/pharo/pull/17517 # Refactoring Engine - Fix RBClassRegexRefactoring #17552 https://github.com/pharo-project/pharo/pull/17552 - rename asMethodPreamble (dated concept) to asMethodSignature #17547 https://github.com/pharo-project/pharo/pull/17547 - fix #17543: [RB] Comment on RBClassRegexRefactoring and superclass is wrong #17545 https://github.com/pharo-project/pharo/pull/17545 - Cleaning ReDriver #17541 https://github.com/pharo-project/pharo/pull/17541 - Fixing the rename from call site. #17536 https://github.com/pharo-project/pharo/pull/17536 # Compiler - Fix: #17524 MOve OCASTSemanticCleaner to its only user: Reflectivity #17546 https://github.com/pharo-project/pharo/pull/17546 - improve comment of private method scanToken #17539 https://github.com/pharo-project/pharo/pull/17539 - Deprecate IRFix #17538 https://github.com/pharo-project/pharo/pull/17538 - Improving opal comment4 #17530 https://github.com/pharo-project/pharo/pull/17530 - Better comment in opal #17526 https://github.com/pharo-project/pharo/pull/17526 - Deprecate RBParser and RBPatternParser. #17514 https://github.com/pharo-project/pharo/pull/17514 # Comments - Better class comment for commentTestCase #17540 https://github.com/pharo-project/pharo/pull/17540

Dec. 20, 2024

Pharo News of the Week 50/2024

by Marcus Denker

# Pharo News of the Week 50/2024 - [ANN] MasterLu is your electronic music teacher in Pharo: https://github.com/lucretiomsp/MasterLu - [ANN] ESUG 2024: Show Us Your Project playlist https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLJ5nSnWzQXi89jwnBCmGPh9xG6shuvuwb # The week on the Pharo Issue Tracker # Fixes - Fix crash of Mac on 4K display #17496 https://github.com/pharo-project/pharo/pull/17496 - Adding fallback code in the allocation primitives basicNewTenured, basicNewTenured: #17492 https://github.com/pharo-project/pharo/pull/17492 - DynamicLoader: unsing LoadLibraryW instead old LoadLibrary in windows #17479 https://github.com/pharo-project/pharo/pull/17479 - Fix #17471: custom Job interruption #17474 https://github.com/pharo-project/pharo/pull/17474 # VM - Fixes for 10.3.2 #885 https://github.com/pharo-project/pharo-vm/pull/885 - Enhancement(versionning): Extract full semantic version from git #884 https://github.com/pharo-project/pharo-vm/pull/884 # Refactoring Engine - Created new driver for tempToIV refactoring #17490 https://github.com/pharo-project/pharo/pull/17490 - Deprecate RBParser and RBPatternParser. #17514 https://github.com/pharo-project/pharo/pull/17514 # CI - Skip some socket tests on windows #17498 https://github.com/pharo-project/pharo/pull/17498 - Fix release tests #17497 https://github.com/pharo-project/pharo/pull/17497 # Documentation - Update README.md #919 https://github.com/pharo-spec/NewTools/pull/919

Dec. 13, 2024

Re: [Pharo-vm] New VM Release v10.3.2

by Norbert Hartl

> Am 11.12.2024 um 15:51 schrieb Guillermo Polito <guillermopolito(a)gmail.com>: > > Hi Norbert, the patch has not been merged yet. > > Are we talking about the same? > > the pharo-10 branch still has the issue The PR looks much better. But now I notice that with the compile and install options documented on github the vm in build/dist does not include some libraries, e.g, libcrypto.* libssl.* etc. How is the packaging done for the archives on files.pharo.org? thanks, Norbert > >> Le 11 dÃ©c. 2024 Ã 3:50â¯PM, Norbert Hartl <norbert(a)hartl.name> a Ã©crit : >> >> >> >>> Am 11.12.2024 um 15:19 schrieb Norbert Hartl <norbert(a)hartl.name>: >>> >>> >>> >>>> Am 05.12.2024 um 13:49 schrieb Guillermo Polito <guillermopolito(a)gmail.com>: >>>> >>>> Also, anybody having a couple of minutes to test and help, if you see this issue locally, could you >>>> - build a VM (https://github.com/pharo-project/pharo-vm/) checking out tag v10.3.2 >>>> - run locally the failing tests >>>> >>>> This information could help us reduce the search space, and identify if itâs just the build environment or there is something else we have to deal with. >>>> >>> It seems you have figured it out. Since I started to compile my own vm I cannot build anything on my jenkins. >>> >>> In order to at least confirm a few things I've built a little infrastructure for me to generate vms in different combinations. I went down the rabbit hole and tried v10.21, v10.3.1 and v10.3.2 under debian 12 and all failed. Then I downgraded gcc to gcc-11 and retried. All are still failing. I read that the gcc 12 and gcc 11 more or less the same in that regard. Sadly it is not easy to go much back from where I am. I need to check on the jenkins and this is based on debian 12. So I could retry with older gccs but I'm not sure what will be the outcome. >>> Right now I'm retrying with pharo-10 HEAD because your commit message sounded it is worth it (well, nothing else works) >>> >> Running a vm from HEAD build let's it live longer but in the end it collapses as well. What is really wild now is that I cannot use the old binaries anymore. I have segfaults there, too. So I'm a bit out of ideas >> >> Norbert >

Dec. 11, 2024

Re: [Pharo-vm] New VM Release v10.3.2

by Norbert Hartl

> Am 11.12.2024 um 15:51 schrieb Guillermo Polito <guillermopolito(a)gmail.com>: > > Hi Norbert, the patch has not been merged yet. > > Are we talking about the same? > > the pharo-10 branch still has the issue Ah right, I think I got so confused throughout the day that reading the PR made me think it has been merged already. Will try with the PR branch. Norbert > >> Le 11 dÃ©c. 2024 Ã 3:50â¯PM, Norbert Hartl <norbert(a)hartl.name> a Ã©crit : >> >> >> >>> Am 11.12.2024 um 15:19 schrieb Norbert Hartl <norbert(a)hartl.name>: >>> >>> >>> >>>> Am 05.12.2024 um 13:49 schrieb Guillermo Polito <guillermopolito(a)gmail.com>: >>>> >>>> Also, anybody having a couple of minutes to test and help, if you see this issue locally, could you >>>> - build a VM (https://github.com/pharo-project/pharo-vm/) checking out tag v10.3.2 >>>> - run locally the failing tests >>>> >>>> This information could help us reduce the search space, and identify if itâs just the build environment or there is something else we have to deal with. >>>> >>> It seems you have figured it out. Since I started to compile my own vm I cannot build anything on my jenkins. >>> >>> In order to at least confirm a few things I've built a little infrastructure for me to generate vms in different combinations. I went down the rabbit hole and tried v10.21, v10.3.1 and v10.3.2 under debian 12 and all failed. Then I downgraded gcc to gcc-11 and retried. All are still failing. I read that the gcc 12 and gcc 11 more or less the same in that regard. Sadly it is not easy to go much back from where I am. I need to check on the jenkins and this is based on debian 12. So I could retry with older gccs but I'm not sure what will be the outcome. >>> Right now I'm retrying with pharo-10 HEAD because your commit message sounded it is worth it (well, nothing else works) >>> >> Running a vm from HEAD build let's it live longer but in the end it collapses as well. What is really wild now is that I cannot use the old binaries anymore. I have segfaults there, too. So I'm a bit out of ideas >> >> Norbert >

Dec. 11, 2024

Re: [Pharo-vm] New VM Release v10.3.2

by Guillermo Polito

Hi Norbert, the patch has not been merged yet. Are we talking about the same? the pharo-10 branch still has the issue > Le 11 dÃ©c. 2024 Ã 3:50â¯PM, Norbert Hartl <norbert(a)hartl.name> a Ã©crit : > > > >> Am 11.12.2024 um 15:19 schrieb Norbert Hartl <norbert(a)hartl.name>: >> >> >> >>> Am 05.12.2024 um 13:49 schrieb Guillermo Polito <guillermopolito(a)gmail.com>: >>> >>> Also, anybody having a couple of minutes to test and help, if you see this issue locally, could you >>> - build a VM (https://github.com/pharo-project/pharo-vm/) checking out tag v10.3.2 >>> - run locally the failing tests >>> >>> This information could help us reduce the search space, and identify if itâs just the build environment or there is something else we have to deal with. >>> >> It seems you have figured it out. Since I started to compile my own vm I cannot build anything on my jenkins. >> >> In order to at least confirm a few things I've built a little infrastructure for me to generate vms in different combinations. I went down the rabbit hole and tried v10.21, v10.3.1 and v10.3.2 under debian 12 and all failed. Then I downgraded gcc to gcc-11 and retried. All are still failing. I read that the gcc 12 and gcc 11 more or less the same in that regard. Sadly it is not easy to go much back from where I am. I need to check on the jenkins and this is based on debian 12. So I could retry with older gccs but I'm not sure what will be the outcome. >> Right now I'm retrying with pharo-10 HEAD because your commit message sounded it is worth it (well, nothing else works) >> > Running a vm from HEAD build let's it live longer but in the end it collapses as well. What is really wild now is that I cannot use the old binaries anymore. I have segfaults there, too. So I'm a bit out of ideas > > Norbert

Dec. 11, 2024

Re: [Pharo-vm] New VM Release v10.3.2

by Norbert Hartl

> Am 11.12.2024 um 15:19 schrieb Norbert Hartl <norbert(a)hartl.name>: > > > >> Am 05.12.2024 um 13:49 schrieb Guillermo Polito <guillermopolito(a)gmail.com>: >> >> Also, anybody having a couple of minutes to test and help, if you see this issue locally, could you >> - build a VM (https://github.com/pharo-project/pharo-vm/) checking out tag v10.3.2 >> - run locally the failing tests >> >> This information could help us reduce the search space, and identify if itâs just the build environment or there is something else we have to deal with. >> > It seems you have figured it out. Since I started to compile my own vm I cannot build anything on my jenkins. > > In order to at least confirm a few things I've built a little infrastructure for me to generate vms in different combinations. I went down the rabbit hole and tried v10.21, v10.3.1 and v10.3.2 under debian 12 and all failed. Then I downgraded gcc to gcc-11 and retried. All are still failing. I read that the gcc 12 and gcc 11 more or less the same in that regard. Sadly it is not easy to go much back from where I am. I need to check on the jenkins and this is based on debian 12. So I could retry with older gccs but I'm not sure what will be the outcome. > Right now I'm retrying with pharo-10 HEAD because your commit message sounded it is worth it (well, nothing else works) > Running a vm from HEAD build let's it live longer but in the end it collapses as well. What is really wild now is that I cannot use the old binaries anymore. I have segfaults there, too. So I'm a bit out of ideas Norbert

Dec. 11, 2024

Re: [Pharo-vm] New VM Release v10.3.2

by Norbert Hartl

> Am 05.12.2024 um 13:49 schrieb Guillermo Polito <guillermopolito(a)gmail.com>: > > Also, anybody having a couple of minutes to test and help, if you see this issue locally, could you > - build a VM (https://github.com/pharo-project/pharo-vm/) checking out tag v10.3.2 > - run locally the failing tests > > This information could help us reduce the search space, and identify if itâs just the build environment or there is something else we have to deal with. > It seems you have figured it out. Since I started to compile my own vm I cannot build anything on my jenkins. In order to at least confirm a few things I've built a little infrastructure for me to generate vms in different combinations. I went down the rabbit hole and tried v10.21, v10.3.1 and v10.3.2 under debian 12 and all failed. Then I downgraded gcc to gcc-11 and retried. All are still failing. I read that the gcc 12 and gcc 11 more or less the same in that regard. Sadly it is not easy to go much back from where I am. I need to check on the jenkins and this is based on debian 12. So I could retry with older gccs but I'm not sure what will be the outcome. Right now I'm retrying with pharo-10 HEAD because your commit message sounded it is worth it (well, nothing else works) If you want me to test somethig please just say so. Norbert

Dec. 11, 2024

Pharo News of the Week 49/2024

by Marcus Denker

# Pharo News of the Week 49/2024 - [New blog] Music and Sounds with Pharo https://lucretiomsp.github.io/musicwithpharo/ - [Blog Post] Phausto at IFC24 https://lucretiomsp.github.io/musicwithpharo/2024/11/24/phaustoIFC24.html # The week on the Pharo Issue Tracker # Fixes - Fix the possibility to put methods as extensions #17489 https://github.com/pharo-project/pharo/pull/17489 - 17487-SignalLogger-should-unsubscribe-on-intance-reset #17488 https://github.com/pharo-project/pharo/pull/17488 - Add tests for safeMethodNameFor:basedOn: and revisit it #17486 https://github.com/pharo-project/pharo/pull/17486 - Do not change the border color of an ImageMorph if it already has a color #17475 https://github.com/pharo-project/pharo/pull/17475 - Fix default behavior of literalEqual: #17467 https://github.com/pharo-project/pharo/pull/17467 - Fixes 17483 on Pharo putting finder in browse menu #918 https://github.com/pharo-spec/NewTools/pull/918 # Spec - add drag transfer customization #1678 https://github.com/pharo-spec/Spec/pull/1678 - Fix implementors of #transferFrom:event: that no longer add #shouldCopy from the TransferMorph to the SpDragAndDropTransfer #1677 https://github.com/pharo-spec/Spec/pull/1677 # Iceberg / Git - Fixes # 1861 on Pharo : location not a git repo when Importing existing clone #1862 https://github.com/pharo-vcs/iceberg/pull/1862 - Pressing enter activates ok action in new branch dialog #1869 https://github.com/pharo-vcs/iceberg/pull/1869 - Enabled cancel button / selected the first option by default ( if the list is not empty ) #1868 https://github.com/pharo-vcs/iceberg/pull/1868 - Fixes #1863 changed title desc for assertion failure #1865 https://github.com/pharo-vcs/iceberg/pull/1865 # Refactoring Engine - refactorings (R) rename method is fixed #17495 https://github.com/pharo-project/pharo/pull/17495 - Extract temp continued #17478 https://github.com/pharo-project/pharo/pull/17478 - Adding comments and protocols reoganisation for RBMethod. #17484 https://github.com/pharo-project/pharo/pull/17484 # VM - Prepare release 10.3.2 #879 https://github.com/pharo-project/pharo-vm/pull/879 - Update README #878 https://github.com/pharo-project/pharo-vm/pull/878 - fix unused-local-typedef #877 https://github.com/pharo-project/pharo-vm/pull/877 - When patching JITed code after become of a class, the class index can look like a negative number #873 https://github.com/pharo-project/pharo-vm/pull/873 - Add default values to --help parameters #872 https://github.com/pharo-project/pharo-vm/pull/872 - Cleanups and improvements #871 https://github.com/pharo-project/pharo-vm/pull/871 # Cleanup - Rename temp var; remove dot after comment #17463 https://github.com/pharo-project/pharo/pull/17463 - Remove some of the last users of SystemAnnouncer uniqueInstance #17372 https://github.com/pharo-project/pharo/pull/17372 - fix a baseline problem #917 https://github.com/pharo-spec/NewTools/pull/917 # Pharo 12 - [Backport] Undo fixes p12 #17309 https://github.com/pharo-project/pharo/pull/17309 - Fix ring global variable #17470 https://github.com/pharo-project/pharo/pull/17470

Dec. 11, 2024

Pharo News of the Week 48/2024

by Marcus Denker

# Pharo News of the Week 48/2024 - [Blog Post] Evaluation of SUnit https://all-objects-all-the-time.st/#/blog/posts/10 # The week on the Pharo Issue Tracker # Pharo 11 - Apply changes from pull request #17375 (âuse file server @ inriaâ) to âPharo11â #17462 https://github.com/pharo-project/pharo/pull/17462 - Backport addition of discardBuffer to ZnBufferedReadStream>>#readInto:startingAt:count in the case that the buffer is bypassed to Pharo 11 #17382 https://github.com/pharo-project/pharo/pull/17382 # Features - Morphic File List replacement with New Tools File Browser #17383 https://github.com/pharo-project/pharo/pull/17383 - 17435 introduce backward compatible rewriting #17438 https://github.com/pharo-project/pharo/pull/17438 # Improvements - Discard Finder unnecessary evaluation with time out in the Compiler #910 https://github.com/pharo-spec/NewTools/pull/910 - Fix: #17423 Pass different application to Cycle Presenter #17429 https://github.com/pharo-project/pharo/pull/17429 - 17451 pharos about window should give the date of the build #17456 https://github.com/pharo-project/pharo/pull/17456 - Add String>>withPlatformLineEndings #17457 https://github.com/pharo-project/pharo/pull/17457 - Fixes #17459: Remove "Declare new Global" feature from the undeclared variable dialogue #17465 https://github.com/pharo-project/pharo/pull/17465 # Refactoring Engine - Adding RBInteractionDriver #17455 https://github.com/pharo-project/pharo/pull/17455 - Fix for Better use the correct condition in RB rename instance variable #17454 https://github.com/pharo-project/pharo/pull/17454 - Revert "ExtractTempDriver" #17452 https://github.com/pharo-project/pharo/pull/17452 - 17440 refactorings reserved names should not be duplicated #17450 https://github.com/pharo-project/pharo/pull/17450 - 17436 again the push up user refactoring interface got broken #17446 https://github.com/pharo-project/pharo/pull/17446 - Fix Rename temp refactoring #17441 https://github.com/pharo-project/pharo/pull/17441 - Discard methodDefinedInClassCondition while renaming method #17425 https://github.com/pharo-project/pharo/pull/17425 - Remember package refactor17388 #17414 https://github.com/pharo-project/pharo/pull/17414 # Spec - fix column view resizable columns #1675 https://github.com/pharo-spec/Spec/pull/1675 - add new list view components #1674 https://github.com/pharo-spec/Spec/pull/1674 - fixes 1663 #1673 https://github.com/pharo-spec/Spec/pull/1673 - Add missing keyboard focus methods #1669 https://github.com/pharo-spec/Spec/pull/1669 - 1658 deprecate at in favor for at point in sp grid layout #1667 https://github.com/pharo-spec/Spec/pull/1667 # Fixes - Fix Pharo build #913 https://github.com/pharo-spec/NewTools/pull/913 # Bootstrap - Add a retry in case of IceGenericError in the bootstrap #17466 https://github.com/pharo-project/pharo/pull/17466 # Cleanup - Explicit morphic/uimanager dependencies #878 https://github.com/pharo-spec/NewTools/pull/878 - use registerToolsOn: logic to respect architecture: class initialize #911 https://github.com/pharo-spec/NewTools/pull/911 - Remove broken method from PlaygroundPresenter #914 https://github.com/pharo-spec/NewTools/pull/914 - Remove the last case of ad-hoc polymorphism around on:do: . Deprecateâ¦ #17385 https://github.com/pharo-project/pharo/pull/17385 - Remove old Finder references in Baselines #17421 https://github.com/pharo-project/pharo/pull/17421 - Fixes: ##17426 there is no need for this method. Its caller checks thâ¦ #17428 https://github.com/pharo-project/pharo/pull/17428/files - 17403 test case failure log should not refer to a globlal #17434 https://github.com/pharo-project/pharo/pull/17434 - Fix double dot at end of line #17448 https://github.com/pharo-project/pharo/pull/17448 - fixing unused instance variable #17447 https://github.com/pharo-project/pharo/pull/17447 - Tag some ExternalAddress method as to ignore by testNoEquivalentSuperclassMethods #17416 https://github.com/pharo-project/pharo/pull/17416 - Less Smalltalk hardcoded references #1659 https://github.com/pharo-spec/Spec/pull/1659

Dec. 10, 2024