June 2010 - Pharo-users - lists.pharo.org

Help (perfect for newcomers) migrating a technical FAQ
by Mariano Martinez Peck April 9, 2011

April 9, 2011

Hi folks. I had a good idea and and it perfect for someone that wants to help and don't know how. It is not the most entertained task, but I promise you will learn a lot. Mostly, if you are newcomer. The idea is basically to migrate the FAQ that is here: http://scg.unibe.ch/wiki/faq/pharofaq to a new section in the collaborative Pharo book: http://book.pharo-project.org/ So....any takers ? Let us know so that we generate a new user in the Book The idea is also to check whether what is says is still correct for pharo or if it needs an update. Or even how to improve it (from the view of a newcomer). Thanks Mariano

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WebClient
by Sven Van Caekenberghe Aug. 24, 2010

Aug. 24, 2010

Hi, Andreas Raab's 'new' WebClient/WebServer seems quite nice, as he says himself: As a result, we now have what I think is a pretty decent HTTP server and client implementation for Squeak 4.1 and hopefully we can nuke HTTPSocket sometime soon. WebClient is superior in every respect. Is this something that will / should fit seamlessly into Pharo ? Or even become preinstalled ? I didn't try his ConfigurationOfWebClient since the last version was unreadable and it seemed like an experiment, while his textual explanation was easy to follow. To load it into and to make the unit tests run in Pharo 1.0 I had to make a couple of fixes (to WebCookie#printOn: and WebServer class#serverString). Who should I sent these changes to ? But even then 1 unit test failed (#testServerDestroy). Furthermore, some the changes in his package WebClient-Pharo seem a bit dangerous, especially a modification to SocketStream#peek (and the failed test was doing a peek) and an override of String#, some others are unneccessary as far as I can see. Sven -- Sven Van Caekenberghe - mailto:sven@beta9.be Beta Nine - software engineering - http://www.beta9.be .Mac - svc(a)mac.com - http://homepage.mac.com/svc

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[ANN 1.2] 1.2 12023 Unstable available
by StÃ©phane Ducasse June 30, 2010

June 30, 2010

https://gforge.inria.fr/frs/download.php/27220/PharoCore-1.2-12023-UNSTABLE… Stef

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Fwd: [Pharo-project] [ANN 1.1] pre-built RC3 Core
by StÃ©phane Ducasse June 30, 2010

June 30, 2010

Begin forwarded message: > From: Marcus Denker <marcus.denker(a)inria.fr> > Date: June 30, 2010 9:37:47 AM GMT+02:00 > To: "Pharo-project(a)lists.gforge.inria.fr Development" <Pharo-project(a)lists.gforge.inria.fr> > Subject: [Pharo-project] [ANN 1.1] pre-built RC3 Core > Reply-To: Pharo-project(a)lists.gforge.inria.fr > > > > https://gforge.inria.fr/frs/download.php/27218/PharoCore-1.1-11406-rc3.zip > > -- > Marcus Denker -- http://www.marcusdenker.de > INRIA Lille -- Nord Europe. Team RMoD. > > > _______________________________________________ > Pharo-project mailing list > Pharo-project(a)lists.gforge.inria.fr > http://lists.gforge.inria.fr/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/pharo-project

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Pharocasts can speak !
by laurent laffont June 25, 2010

June 25, 2010

Hi, Thanks to Christoph Budzinski, the "How to contribute to Pharo" screencast has now a voice. http://pharocasts.blogspot.com/2010/03/how-to-contribute-to-pharo.html Feedback welcome. Cheers, Laurent Laffont http://pharocasts.blogspot.com/ http://magaloma.blogspot.com/

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OSProcess on Windows
by Bob Cowdery June 25, 2010

June 25, 2010

Does anyone use OSProcess on Windows? If so can you tell me how to make it work please. OSProcess thisOSProcess command: 'cmd.exe /C notepad' Fails in two ways. It tries to output a message to stderr but fails to do so. The message it tries to output just says: "nextPutAll: 'cannot execute cmd.exe /C notepad'". I also tried to open a console with: OSProcess thisOSProcess openConsole but that seems to do nothing and gives no errors. Any help very welcome. Regards Bob

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VM/Settings for Deploy
by Sven Van Caekenberghe June 25, 2010

June 25, 2010

Hi, I am very happy that I managed to create a very small deploy image based on Pharo-1.1-11400-rc2. This image contains all of Seaside and Glorp/PostgreSQL and is still only about 12Mb. All this thanks to ScriptLoader's #cleanUpForProduction. Thanks a lot to all who made this possible. I noticed however that this image is handling my HTTP/Seaside benchmark consistenly faster on my Mac, about 80 to 85 req/s (Mac OS X 10.6.4, 2.4 Ghz Intel Core 2 Duo with 4GB RAM) than on my server (RHEL 4 (update 7), 2 Ghz AMD Opteron 175 Dual Core with 4GB RAM), about 55 to 65 req/s. On my Mac I use the Squeak 4.2.4beta1U VM, on my server the Squeak-4.0.3.2202 Unix VM. Next I tried the Squeak-4.0.3.2202 VM on my Mac. This resulted in about 60 to 70 req/s. Is it normal that the Unix VM is slower than the Mac VM ? Shouldn't a Linux server box be faster at networking/IO/CPU than a MacBook Pro running the full Mac OS X GUI ? Is there anything simple (low hanging fruit kind of stuff) that I can do to improve performance, either using command line options to the VM or using settings at the image level ? I currently run the VM with: Squeak-4.0.3.2202-linux_i386/bin/squeak -vm-display-null -vm-sound-null deploy.image What are others using in the Seaside deploy area ? Thanks, Sven

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Finding packages
by Bob Cowdery June 25, 2010

June 25, 2010

Sorry if this is a bit of a basic question. Could someone enlighten me on how to install packages please. I want to be able to run command files under windows from within Pharo. It looks like I need OsProcess or maybe CommandShell. I assume these should be installable from Monticello. I don't see any search facility in the Monticello Browser and tried a few repositories but failed to find what I needed. What's the best way to find packages. Thanks Bob

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Changing Fonts in Pharo
by tgc05 June 24, 2010

June 24, 2010

I'm new to Pharo and am working through the PBE book. I would like to change the fonts (and their size) used in the OmniBrowser and generally throughout Pharo. In particular, the font in the text input panes. I'd like to be able to use DejaVu Sans Mono, if available. Failing that, the default font is OK, if it could just be larger. (or is there a zoom feature?) Can someone tell me how I can customize these settings? Thanks. -- View this message in context: http://forum.world.st/Changing-Fonts-in-Pharo-tp2267560p2267560.html Sent from the Pharo Smalltalk Users mailing list archive at Nabble.com.

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Error:invalid utf8 input detected.
by Guillermo Polito June 24, 2010

June 24, 2010

Hi there! We are using Pharo to teach OOP in UTN university, Argentina. Some times students have the error Invalid utf8 input detected when loading an image or doing a file out of a category. I think it happens mostly (or always, i'm not sure) in the OneClicImage, when running on windows. Is it a known issue? Thanks!

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