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Re: [Pharo-project] InnoSetup was: RE: One-click Windows comment

by garduino

Schwab,Wilhelm K wrote > > As an aside, it's interesting to see the term "ActiveX" *still* being > used. This was something that MS was trying to kill a LONG time ago. I'm > increasingly glad that I started tuning them out and focusing on the > simple and reliable vs. getting wound up in every new "technology" they > tried to jam down my throat. I'm much happier on Linux. > Could not agree more with you! I can't understand how / why so many people/companies are using MS products, when the company proved lot of times that really don't care about its users and customers. -- View this message in context: http://forum.world.st/InnoSetup-was-RE-One-click-Windows-comment-tp4576268p… Sent from the Pharo Smalltalk mailing list archive at Nabble.com.

April 21, 2012

Re: [Pharo-project] [Esug-list] Pharo 1.4 Released

by Bernhard Pieber

Hi Marcus, Congratulations on the release! Thanks to the whole team for your effort. Cheers, Bernhard Am 19.04.2012 um 11:42 schrieb Marcus Denker: > We are proud to announce the release 1.4 of Pharo! > > You can find information about Pharo on http://www.pharo-project.org. > In particular, you may be interested in: > - How to join us and get help: http://www.pharo-project.org/community > - Getting the Pharo By Example book (also available as a free PDF): http://www.pharobyexample.org > - Watching the screencasts: http://www.pharocasts.com > - Reporting problems: http://www.pharo-project.org/community/issue-tracking > - Read the forthcoming book: http://rmod.lille.inria.fr/pbe2 (yes we love and value documentation) > - Read the Pharo vision document: http://www.pharo-project.org/community/consortium > > About this release > --------------- > > All in all, there were over 870 issues treated in the issue tracker. > > http://code.google.com/p/pharo/issues/list?can=1&q=milestone%3D1.4 > > Read it again, yes 870 is huge, take two minutes and have a look at the list of improvements! Now you got a feeling for the effort. > And this not our own work but the work of our community! It is possible because people worldwide helped! We want to deeply > thank them. > > We want to thank in particular Inria for its constant support, in particular for the salary of Igor Stasenko and for help in the > infrastructure put in place. > > We have accomplished this huge task for a better system because we were together. > Do not forget that we are working on a consortium to support our system. > Do not forget that our goal is to build a system so that we can make a living with our creativity and programming skills. > > Read the Pharo vision document and join! > > Thanks ***a lot*** for your participation, energy and fun. > > The Pharo Team <snip>

April 21, 2012

Re: [Pharo-project] One-click Windows comment

by phil＠highoctane.be

Guess so :-) Command line tools for packaging: http://www.jrsoftware.org/ispphelp/index.php?topic=isppcc Also allows headless install/deploy: http://unattended.sourceforge.net/InnoSetup_Switches_ExitCodes.html KR Philippe 2012/4/21 Igor Stasenko <siguctua(a)gmail.com> > On 21 April 2012 10:48, phil(a)highoctane.be <phil(a)highoctane.be> wrote: > > Inno Setup would be a good thing to use for creating a Windows installer. > > > > http://www.jrsoftware.org/isinfo.php > > > > I use it regularly. Interested in a sample? > > > > Since we're using automated builds, it is important that install > packaging tools can run from command line > and don't require any user interaction(s) in order to create an output. > is inno installer allows to do that? > > > Phil > > > > > > 2012/4/21 Marcus Denker <marcus.denker(a)inria.fr> > >> > >> > >> On Apr 20, 2012, at 11:49 AM, Herby VojÄÃk wrote: > >> > >> > The ideal way would probably that .bat (or .cmd or .vbs) creates the > >> > .lnk by some ActiveX magic, runs it and quits; subseuqntly .lnk could > be > >> > clicked directly. > >> > > >> We are planning of having installers for the three platforms... so we > can > >> make them more in the style that people expect. > >> > >> But this will be done step by step and slowly (like everything :-) > >> > >> For the meantime, I added a catch-all tracker for ideas how to improve > the > >> one-click: > >> > >> http://code.google.com/p/pharo/issues/detail?id=5643 > >> > >> > >> -- > >> Marcus Denker -- http://marcusdenker.de > >> > >> > > > > > > > > -- > > Philippe Back > > "Helping you hit the top 3 outcomes you really want to achieve" > > > > Mob: +32(0) 478 650 140 | Fax: +32 (0) 70 408 027 Mail: > phil(a)highoctane.be | > > Web: http://philippeback.eu | Blog: > > http://philippeback.be > > > > High Octane SPRL > > rue cour Boisacq 101 > > 1301 Bierges > > > > > > -- > Best regards, > Igor Stasenko. > > -- Philippe Back "Helping you hit the top 3 outcomes you really want to achieve" Mob: +32(0) 478 650 140 | Fax: +32 (0) 70 408 027 Mail: phil(a)highoctane.be| Web: http://philippeback.eu | Blog: http://philippeback.be High Octane SPRL rue cour Boisacq 101 1301 Bierges

April 21, 2012

Re: [Pharo-project] How can I do literate programming?

by Stephan Eggermont

You should probably use a MOOSE image if you want to do the modern equivalent of literate programming. Instead of comments, drive your code from (behavioural) tests, create glamour & mondrian browsers to visualize the design and quality attributes of the code and use magritte style descriptions to declaratively describe your domain. Then generate LaTeX & pictures from this for the paper trail. Stephan Eggermont

April 21, 2012

Re: [Pharo-project] Nautilus

by Marcus Denker

On Apr 21, 2012, at 2:55 PM, Mariano Martinez Peck wrote: > What i would love to learn/read more about was RPackage and Ring (perhaps on > a blogpost on http://marianopeck.wordpress.com/ ;). > About Ring there is this paper: http://rmod.lille.inria.fr/archives/papers/Uqui11a-RingJournalPaper-CSSJour… Marcus -- Marcus Denker -- http://marcusdenker.de

April 21, 2012

Re: [Pharo-project] Nautilus

by Mariano Martinez Peck

On Sat, Apr 21, 2012 at 11:41 AM, Helene Bilbo < thereluctantprogrammer(a)fastmail.fm> wrote: > > Mariano Martinez Peck wrote > > > > Anyway, I agree we should document Nautilus somewhere :( > > > > I stumbled upon a sketch of a Nautilus documentation some time ago :) > https://github.com/Ezial/Nautilus > Please continue to write it and publish it! > > Tha's pretty cool!! I wasn't aware of it. Indeed, it would be nice if people can push and continue improving that chapter. > And i really begin to like Nautilus a lot, especially the possibility to > write plugins. > What i would love to learn/read more about was RPackage and Ring (perhaps > on > a blogpost on http://marianopeck.wordpress.com/ ;). > > Problem is that I know nothing about them :( > -- > View this message in context: > http://forum.world.st/Nautilus-tp4575388p4576187.html > Sent from the Pharo Smalltalk mailing list archive at Nabble.com. > > -- Mariano http://marianopeck.wordpress.com

April 21, 2012

Re: [Pharo-project] Unresponsive 1.4 image

by Janko MivÅ¡ek

Hi guys, This code reproduces the blockade in fresh 1.4 OneClick (with or without Transcript window open): [ (Delay forSeconds: 5) wait. SmalltalkImage current saveSession. ] forkAt: Processor userBackgroundPriority Note that fork on default priority does not block while on user background priority it blocks. It does not always block immediately (sometimes yes sometimes not) but it after image restart it is always blocked. But if you periodically write to Transcript from process on user background priority, it does not block, even if you heavily browse around, write to transcript, do manual snapshot: [ [true] whileTrue: [(Delay forMilliseconds: 500) wait. Transcript show: '.tst.'] ] forkAt: Processor userBackgroundPriority So, it seems not only thread-safe Transcript but something with snapshot (from a background priority, why?) is in play here. SmalltalkImage>>snapshot:andQuit: , shouldnât run it on highest priority to block all other processes during the preparation for snapshot? Hope this helps a bit more Janko Dne 21. 04. 2012 11:48, piÅ¡e Igor Stasenko: > So, this is related to thread-safe transcript code.. > which using semaphore to synchronize access to transcript stream. > I guess what happens is that a semaphore is blocked in another > process, but for some strange reason never released. This leads to > situation, that any other process which will attempt to write to > transcript will be blocked as well.. forever. Why is input not blocked immediately but after image restart? More investigation: 1. correction: image blocks in any case after restart, regardless if there is additional writing to Transcript or not. Snapshot namely writes to Transcript by itself and this is enough to block. 1. even if Transcript is closed the image blocks after restart This simulated snapshot from the background does NOT block after restart: [ (Delay forSeconds: 5) wait. SmalltalkImage current saveSession. ] fork This one also not: [ | elapsed | (Delay forSeconds: 5) wait. elapsed := Time millisecondsToRun: [SmalltalkImage current saveSession]. Transcript show: ' in ', (elapsed // 1000) printString, 's '. ] forkAt: Processor userBackgroundPriority > > 2012/4/21 Janko MivÅ¡ek <janko.mivsek(a)eranova.si>: >> Hi guys, >> >> It seems that writing to Transcript from background process causes my >> freeze after restart. And yes, I have Transcript window open. >> >> This is a code snippet in question: >> >> AIDASite class>>imageSnapshot >> ... >> elapsed := Time millisecondsToRun: >> [SmalltalkImage current saveSession]. >> Transcript show: ' in ', (elapsed // 1000) printString, 's '. >> >> >> If I comment out the last line, snapshot doesn't block the image after >> restart. >> >> This is not necessary 1.4 specific problem, because I noticed similar >> problem in 1.3 also. Just that on 1.3 input freezes immediately while on >> 1.4 it freezes after restart. >> >> Let me investigate a bit further, what if Transcript window is not open? >> >> Best regards >> Janko >> >> >> >> Dne 20. 04. 2012 21:42, piÅ¡e StÃ©phane Ducasse: >>> Ok may be nautilus bug. It should be different than janko problem. >>> >>> Stef >>> >>> On Apr 20, 2012, at 9:39 PM, Sean P. DeNigris wrote: >>> >>>> >>>> StÃ©phane Ducasse wrote >>>>> >>>>> on which os? >>>>> >>>> >>>> Mac Lion 10.7.3 >>>> >>>> -- >>>> View this message in context: http://forum.world.st/Unresponsive-1-4-image-tp4574693p4575049.html >>>> Sent from the Pharo Smalltalk mailing list archive at Nabble.com. >>>> >>> >>> >>> >> >> -- >> Janko MivÅ¡ek >> Aida/Web >> Smalltalk Web Application Server >> http://www.aidaweb.si >> > > > -- Janko MivÅ¡ek Aida/Web Smalltalk Web Application Server http://www.aidaweb.si

April 21, 2012

Re: [Pharo-project] The video about Athens

by Sean P. DeNigris

Sean P. DeNigris wrote > > I get Generic failure > fnSpec: #(#bool #ioRegisterSurface #(#ulong #aCairoSurfaceHandle #, > #void #* #sqSurfaceDispatchPtr #, #int #* #idHolder)) > module: #SurfacePlugin > errorCode: 1 > Igor, I guess you didn't run into this on Mac... any ideas why it's still not working? Sean -- View this message in context: http://forum.world.st/The-video-about-Athens-tp4571100p4576317.html Sent from the Pharo Smalltalk mailing list archive at Nabble.com.

April 21, 2012

[Pharo-project] Feedback about SmallLint

by Mariano Martinez Peck

Hi guys. After our meeting at Lille, I did a pass of SmallLint over Fuel project. I have to say that I enjoyed the tool and that. I love the manifiesto idea. I love to store metada and to be able to reject rules and scenarios to avoid having false positives again in the future. In addition, it looks like I had less false positive than with other tools. However, there were a couple of rules that I don't understand or may suggest something: 1) First, apart form showing the package between parenthesis, I would also show the protocol (category). Because some rules play with that, so it is handy if you can directly see them there, otherwise you need to browse the code. 2) RBContainsRule is not clear for me. *" 'Checks for the common code fragment: "(aCollection detect: [:each | ''some condition''] ifNone: [nil]) ~= nil". contains: can simplify this code to "aCollection contains: [:each | ''some condition'']". Not only is the contains: variant shorter, it better signifies what the code is doing.'"* That is not very true. #contains answers true or false, while detect:ifNone:[] answers whatever, and in your example it is nil. So, the answer will be different and hence it is not the same. Ok, in your example, you compare after with == nil... but... I don't really see a use case. For example, in my case it detected: classNamed: className ^ (migrations detect: [:m | m sourceClassName = className ] ifNone: [ ^ self globalClassNamed: className ]) targetClass. 3) RBLawOfDemeterRule: maybe you can exclude string concatenation? (#,) because it detected a lot of messages like this: signalWith: aGlobalName and: aSelector ^ self signal: 'Method ', aGlobalName, '>>#', aSelector, ' not found.' Also, what about excluding messages like #asXXX. For example, here it detected "self signature asByteArray". Is that completly breaking the law of demeter? mmm I don't think so. verifySignatureFrom: aDecoder | streamSignature | streamSignature := ByteArray new: self signature size. aDecoder nextEncodedBytesInto: streamSignature. (self signature asByteArray = streamSignature) ifFalse: [ FLBadSignature signalCurrentSignature: self signature streamSignature: streamSignature ]. 4) RBSentNotImplementedRule: I didn't understand why it has selected: largeIdentityHash <primitive: 75> self primitiveFailed both messages are implemented :( 5) RBClassInstVarNotInitializedRule could be smarter and search not only for #initialize but for #initializeXXX. Lots of times, I initialize my objects with data, using a particular nitialize method, such as: initializeWithBehaviors: someBehaviors extensionMethods: someExtensionMethods so the rule says there is no initialize...but I have that one ;) That's all the feedback so far. It helped me to find some things to improve so thanks! -- Mariano http://marianopeck.wordpress.com

April 21, 2012

Re: [Pharo-project] The video about Athens

by StÃ©phane Ducasse

Cool I was thinking exactly about using platform. Srf On Apr 20, 2012, at 2:54 PM, Igor Stasenko wrote: > i uploaded the new version of Athens-Cairo, which takes the 'default' path > depending on platform it running, also fixed it, so you don't have to > change multiple places. > also , updated config version 1.0 to load this package. > > On 20 April 2012 14:45, Igor Stasenko <siguctua(a)gmail.com> wrote: >> As i suspected, it works out of the box on my ubuntu-32 bit installation, >> i just had to change the cairo library path to >> /usr/lib/libcairo.so >> >> :) >> >> On 20 April 2012 14:30, Fernando Olivero <fernando.olivero(a)usi.ch> wrote: >>> Athens is an API, the rendering is actually done by the backends. >>> Currently Ballon and Cairo are supported. >>> >>> So, the answer is that Athens is supported in all platforms using the >>> Ballon backend, (note that ballon does not have all the features of >>> Cairo, so some of the features in the demo wont work), and the Cairo >>> backend as well. >>> >>> You just need to tell NativeBoos were to locate the cairo library >>> (built using MacPorts, so the path starts at /opt/...). >>> >>> For now we just hardcoded the library path (you can change them by >>> hand for now, to point to your local Cairo lib) >>> >>> TCairoLibrary class>>nbLibraryNameOrHandle >>> ^ '/opt/local/lib/libcairo.2.dylib' >>> >>> AthensSurface class>>nbLibraryNameOrHandle >>> ^ '/opt/local/lib/libcairo.2.dylib' >>> >>> This should be changed, perhaps a settings? >>> >>> Fernando >>> >>> On Fri, Apr 20, 2012 at 12:25 PM, Alexis Parseghian <a.parseg(a)gmail.com> wrote: >>>>> People should start to use Athens, apps around Pharo would start be >>>>> look waaaayyy cooler. >>>> >>>> About that. >>>> >>>> Is it supposed to work outside of the Mac platform ? >>>> >>>> Tried the demo, and AthensDemoMorph new openInWorld crashes on >>>> "function unavailable". That backtraces into Block in >>>> NBFFICallout>>generateCall:module: where module seems to be >>>> '/opt/local/lib/libcairo.2.dylib' which is obviously Mac-ish but makes >>>> no sense on Linux. >>>> >>>> Where is the library name and location set/picked up ? I guess this >>>> question could be generalized to how the platform-specific >>>> initialization happens. >>>> >>>> As an aside, all NativeBoost-Tests are green. >>>> >>>> Platform : debian testing 64-bit with ia32 libs installed. Latest >>>> NBCogVM from jenkins, blank Pharo 1.4 #14414 with Athens 1.0 >>>> (explicitly) installed from SS:Athens/ConfigurationOfAthens. >>>> >>>> I also look forward to discovering whatever new, inventive stuff these >>>> new projects enable. >>> >> >> >> >> -- >> Best regards, >> Igor Stasenko. > > > > -- > Best regards, > Igor Stasenko. >

April 21, 2012