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[Newsletter] Content Needed
by Marcus Denker April 12, 2018

April 12, 2018

Hi, The Pharo Monthly Newsletter is working quite well. https://newsletter.pharo.org <https://newsletter.pharo.org/> We now reached a level where it is not just 3 things, but much much more.. of course this comes with a downside: - Sometimes topics that would be worth a small article are just posted as a one-liners - I forget / overlook things for sure (so much happening!) If you want your (or some other project or topic) to be in the newsletter â> send me a mail, in the best of all cases with a fully written text that you want to have posted. This includes: - new libraries and projects - dates - high level description of existing projects - videos - Blog posts - books - lectures - Success Stories of all kinds (nice to present your Company!) - Research (e.g. published papers or project descriptions) - Expanded versions of news posted as one-liners before - â¦. There is a explicit jobs section, too. Marcus

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help wanted: normalising LF on tonel for Pharo project
by Esteban Lorenzano April 12, 2018

April 12, 2018

Hi, Iâve been wondering how to better fix the problem of having windows and linux/macOS people contributing and the fact that files are written in their native system format (crlf windows, lf for the rest of the world). I digged a bit and I found a couple a link that helped me (after trying to understand the doc): https://stackoverflow.com/questions/170961/whats-the-best-crlf-carriage-ret… <https://stackoverflow.com/questions/170961/whats-the-best-crlf-carriage-ret…> and it seems adding a .gitattributes file with this content: # Auto detect text files and perform LF normalization * text=auto *.st text merge=union eol=lf could fix the problem? can someone confirm this? (I confess this issue confuses me a lot :P) cheers! Esteban

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Contribute a Fix and Reviewing changes
by Nicolai Hess April 11, 2018

April 11, 2018

Hi, I tried to create a pull request with IceBerg. I followed the CONTRIBUTING HowTo and Markus' create TechTalk-Video. But I must have done something wrong. This is my pull request: https://github.com/pharo-project/pharo/pull/1189 But although I just changes one line in one method. The gitub pull request side shows Commit 1 Files changed 40! But I did not change 40 files And I still have problems viewing pull requests from within pharo: I thought this would work meanwhil. Thanks in advance nicolai

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call for help: answer on HN :)
by Esteban Lorenzano April 11, 2018

April 11, 2018

Hi, yesterday someone posted an article on HN about the Pharo MOOC and there has been some negative posts there. I would like to call people who can have the time to answer there and help to explain better and also contribute to contest that FUD someones (we know who they areâ¦ sames as always) are spreading. here the link : https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16754872 <https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16754872> (this is not loosing time, people searching for Pharo will likely see this kind of messagesâ¦ at least we need to offer our point of view) cheers! Esteban

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[Pharo7] halt inside and outside tests
by Marcus Denker April 11, 2018

April 11, 2018

Hi, As we can not very easily decide if we are inside a test execution or not there was the idea to have special #halt messages https://pharo.fogbugz.com/f/cases/20151/new-halt-messages <https://pharo.fogbugz.com/f/cases/20151/new-halt-messages> This PR implements them: https://github.com/pharo-project/pharo/pull/1177 <https://github.com/pharo-project/pharo/pull/1177> There is now #haltIfInsideTest and #haltfOutsideTest. In addition, the PR adds a helper method to make checking if the current execution environment is a test run a bit easier: "CurrentExecutionEnvironment value isTestâ. Marcus

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Did magritte change? Magritte-Morph-SeasnDeNigris.95 is not found
by Stephane Ducasse April 11, 2018

April 11, 2018

Because now when I load pillar Metacello new baseline: 'Pillar'; repository: 'github://pillar-markup/pillar:newpipeline/src'; load I get an error because Magritte-MOrph-SeasnDeNigris.95 is not found So I cannot build pillar anymore! :(

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What about removing forks in Monticello browser
by Stephane Ducasse April 11, 2018

April 11, 2018

Hi I have the impression that the forks around the monticello browser are introducing more mess than they solve. Would not be good to remove such behavior? Stef

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[Pharo 7.0-dev] Build #760: 21687-make-a-deprecated-Key-as-subclass-of-KeyboardKey
by ci-pharo-ci-jenkins2＠inria.fr April 11, 2018

April 11, 2018

There is a new Pharo build available! The status of the build #760 was: FAILURE. The Pull Request #1190 was integrated: "21687-make-a-deprecated-Key-as-subclass-of-KeyboardKey" Pull request url: https://github.com/pharo-project/pharo/pull/1190 Issue Url: https://pharo.fogbugz.com/f/cases/21687 Build Url: https://ci.inria.fr/pharo-ci-jenkins2/job/Test%20pending%20pull%20request%2…

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Re: [Pharo-dev] Images, VMs and 32 vs 64bit
by Guillermo Polito April 11, 2018

April 11, 2018

VMs share most of the code. At least the basic interpreter, primitives and garbage collector. But there are some platform specificities such as how some plugins are managed. Also there are different JIT backends, one per platform. I don't know if a VM comes shipped with all of them or just the one needed. For more details, better ask the vm-dev mailing list. On Wed, Apr 11, 2018 at 12:39 AM, Benoit St-Jean via Pharo-dev < pharo-dev(a)lists.pharo.org> wrote: > > > ---------- Forwarded message ---------- > From: Benoit St-Jean <bstjean(a)yahoo.com> > To: Pharo Development List <pharo-dev(a)lists.pharo.org>, "Peter UhnÃ¡k" < > i.uhnak(a)gmail.com> > Cc: > Bcc: > Date: Tue, 10 Apr 2018 22:39:16 +0000 (UTC) > Subject: Re: [Pharo-dev] Images, VMs and 32 vs 64bit > Thanks! > > I don't really care about the image format, my question was more oriented > towards the code itself. As I don't have a Mac, I was curious as to > whether there would be code differences between platforms, VMs and 32 vs > 64bit distributions, code-wise! > > > ----------------- > BenoÃ®t St-Jean > Yahoo! Messenger: bstjean > Twitter: @BenLeChialeux > Pinterest: benoitstjean > Instagram: Chef_Benito > IRC: lamneth > Blogue: endormitoire.wordpress.com > "A standpoint is an intellectual horizon of radius zero". (A. Einstein) > > > On Tuesday, April 10, 2018, 6:29:33 p.m. EDT, Peter UhnÃ¡k < > i.uhnak(a)gmail.com> wrote: > > > > images for different platforms (Mac, Linux, Windows) > > yes > It is the responsibility of the VM to contain the differences. Note that > there's some "platform-specific" code, but the image contains the code for > all platforms at once. > Generally speaking you can code on one platform, copy the image files to > another and continue your work (although doing this can cause trouble, as > e.g. some file paths may now point to non-existing locations). > You can download the images independently of the platform too (e.g. Pharo > 6 images: http://files.pharo.org/image/60/ ) > > > VMs (32bit, 64bit) > > yes? > the files are different, but I don't know if there's code difference, or > if the images are just built with different memory layouts > > Peter > > On Wed, Apr 11, 2018 at 12:13 AM, Benoit St-Jean via Pharo-dev < > pharo-dev(a)lists.pharo.org> wrote: > > > > ---------- Forwarded message ---------- > From: Benoit St-Jean <bstjean(a)yahoo.com> > To: Pharo Development List <pharo-dev(a)lists.pharo.org> > Cc: > Bcc: > Date: Tue, 10 Apr 2018 22:13:18 +0000 (UTC) > Subject: Images, VMs and 32 vs 64bit > I was wondering if images for different platforms (Mac, Linux, Windows) > and VMs (32bit, 64bit) are, code-wise, the same? By "the same", I mean do > they all have the exact same code base or some classes/methods are in some > and not in others or different? > > ----------------- > BenoÃ®t St-Jean > Yahoo! Messenger: bstjean > Twitter: @BenLeChialeux > Pinterest: benoitstjean > Instagram: Chef_Benito > IRC: lamneth > Blogue: endormitoire.wordpress.com > "A standpoint is an intellectual horizon of radius zero". (A. Einstein) > > > > -- Guille Polito Research Engineer Centre de Recherche en Informatique, Signal et Automatique de Lille CRIStAL - UMR 9189 French National Center for Scientific Research - *http://www.cnrs.fr <http://www.cnrs.fr>* *Web:* *http://guillep.github.io* <http://guillep.github.io> *Phone: *+33 06 52 70 66 13

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Executive Programming
by Ben Coman April 11, 2018

April 11, 2018

This article about the "Mining Industry's Impending Digital Metamorphosis" https://medium.com/@CORE_Innovation/minings-impending-metamorphosis-155d668… is a little off topic, except where it says "All levels, including management and executives will need to have some level coding experience and understanding." made me think this must be pervasive across many industries and that an interesting strategy for Pharo would be teaching a course called... "Executive Programming". Pharo could be ideally suited to filling this niche... * Executives don't need to learn the *most* efficient language (i.e. C), * and don't need to learn a system suited to large groups of developers (i.e. Java) * and don't have the time to wait for things to compile (i.e. big tick immediate feedback) They are never going to "do the work" but just need to gain a general understanding of "programming" to better strategise at a higher level and interact with developers. What better language is there for this than Pharo? But guess what happens when the boss is familiar with and likes one particular language... ? /cue maniacal laugh cheers -ben P.S. I'd be interested in collaborating on something that is not an end user book, but more of an Instructors manual for such a course.

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