### Here's what I've been up to since the last WhatsUp: Pharo Packaging (https://launchpad.net/~pharo/+archive/stable/) - update VM - separation of core and desktop packages - fix some problems with Pharo packaging for Ubuntu - set up a Jenkins job to build Pharo packages automatically - failed creating an old ubuntu slave for jenkins to build the Pharo VM - create Pharo's Ubuntu PPA: https://launchpad.net/~pharo/+archive/stable/ - improve bash scripts that generate the deb files - ask Esteban to fix some embedding of libraries (thank you Esteban, but we have more to fix) - update pharo download page to refer to ubuntu packages - report many VM issues - add cairo as a dependency for ubuntu packages - create a man page for Pharo Pharo launcher (by Erwan Douaille) (http://www.smalltalkhub.com/#!/~Pharo/PharoLauncher) - deprecate "old" packages - work on a configuration - jenkins job (https://ci.inria.fr/pharo-contribution/job/PharoLauncher/) - move to Pharo team on SmalltalkHub - various small fixes Misc - make XMLParser not depend on XMLWriter (http://smalltalkhub.com/#!/~PharoExtras/XMLParser) - make SmalltalkHub easily installable (with a configuration and a jenkins job) (with Nicollas Petton and Benjamin van Ryseghem) (http://lists.gforge.inria.fr/pipermail/pharo-project/2013-May/078746.html) - check and clean-up Sebastian Tleye's fixes for traits - pair-program with Mathieu Dehouck on his layouting algorithm - back-port the "user-directories" patch from 3.0 to 2.0 (getting the home, desktop, documents... directories) (issue #10406) - pair program with Benjamin van Ryseghem on issues #7215 and #10139 - fix some problems with Gutemberg (http://www.smalltalkhub.com/#!/~DamienCassou/Pier-Gutemberg) - update Pier3Book job on jenkins - work on a few slides to show that Pharo classes are objects and class methods are polymorphic (compared to Java) - work on a Pharo lecture ### What's next, until 2013-05-19 (*): work on the Pharo lecture continue the Pharo launcher with Erwan merge all the bash scripts for the Ubuntu packages force Esteban to fix the embedding of external libraries in the VM -- Damien Cassou http://damiencassou.seasidehosting.st "Success is the ability to go from one failure to another without losing enthusiasm." Winston Churchill