April 2011 - Pharo-users - lists.pharo.org

Re: [Pharo-users] [COTDC] 56 - HostFont
by Marcus Denker April 29, 2011

April 29, 2011

On Apr 28, 2011, at 6:23 PM, laurent laffont wrote: > Today: HostFont > Seems to be unused. I vote for removing. (together with IdentityGlyphMap) Marcus -- Marcus Denker -- http://www.marcusdenker.de INRIA Lille -- Nord Europe. Team RMoD.

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[COTDC] 56 - HostFont
by laurent laffont April 28, 2011

April 28, 2011

Today: HostFont Comment Of The Day Contest - One Day One Comment Rules: #1: Each day a not commented class is elected. Each day the best comment will be integrated with name of the author(s). #2: If you cannot comment it, deprecate it. Results: http://code.google.com/p/pharo/wiki/CommentOfTheDayContest Laurent Laurent Laffont - @lolgzs <http://twitter.com/#!/lolgzs> Pharo Smalltalk Screencasts: http://www.pharocasts.com/ Blog: http://magaloma.blogspot.com/ Developer group: http://cara74.seasidehosting.st

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[COTDC] 55 - IdentityGlyphMap
by laurent laffont April 28, 2011

April 28, 2011

Today: IdentityGlyphMap Comment Of The Day Contest - One Day One Comment Rules: #1: Each day a not commented class is elected. Each day the best comment will be integrated with name of the author(s). #2: If you cannot comment it, deprecate it. Results: http://code.google.com/p/pharo/wiki/CommentOfTheDayContest Laurent

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Fwd: [Pharocasts] New comment on SandstoneDb, simple ActiveRecord style persistence....
by laurent laffont April 28, 2011

April 28, 2011

Please, could someone check and answer ? Laurent ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Bostjan <noreply-comment(a)blogger.com> Date: Wed, Apr 27, 2011 at 3:37 PM Subject: [Pharocasts] New comment on SandstoneDb, simple ActiveRecord style persistence.... To: laurent.laffont(a)gmail.com Bostjan <http://www.blogger.com/profile/07528412765219471856> has left a new comment on your post "SandstoneDb, simple ActiveRecord style persistence...<http://www.pharocasts.com/2010/04/sandstonedb-simple-activerecord-style.html>": Hello, I am not able to play with sandstone db since i have issues with database creation. After I save and leave the image db is not created. I have tried with pharo 1.1 and 1.2.1 image on OSX (Snow leopard) without success. Is maybe sandstone db not working any more in pharo under OSX. Thanks in advance, BoÅ¡tjan Posted by Bostjan to Pharocasts <http://www.pharocasts.com/> at April 27, 2011 6:37 AM

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Re: [Pharo-users] [ANN] PharoDev-1.3-13173
by Marcus Denker April 28, 2011

April 28, 2011

On Apr 27, 2011, at 11:25 AM, Ted F.A. van Gaalen wrote: > Hi Marcus > As I wrote, I am thinking from the perspective > of an application developer, a typical pharo-user ? > imagine that I/we have hundreds of > apps written, will they run unchanged > say 5 years from now? Yes, using the old version of Pharo that you used when you implemented them. Like MacOS 9 programs run on MacOS 9. If you want to run your MacOS 9 Program on MacOSX, there is for a time an emulator, and for a time some source compatibility. But in the end, the only option is to port. There is no magic. You can select between -> Inventing the Future -> Be compatible to the Past at any cost. If what you have in the Past is valuable, selecting the second option makes sense. (IBM, Microsoft). If not, then it's idiotic. We will improve this a bit in the future, but this is research, so no promises. You can read some high-level talk abot it here, for example: http://scg.unibe.ch/archive/papers/Nier08aSelfAwareEternal.pdf Marcus -- Marcus Denker -- http://www.marcusdenker.de INRIA Lille -- Nord Europe. Team RMoD.

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Problem dealing with UTF8 characters in pathnames
by Casimiro de Almeida Barreto April 28, 2011

April 28, 2011

In FilePath an error is raised when UTF-8 is found in pathname. FilePath>>pathName: isEncoded: ByteString>>convertFromWithConverter: UTF8TextConverter>>nextFromStream: Best regards, Casimiro

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PluggableTextMorph>>appendText:aTextOrString
by DougEdmunds April 28, 2011

April 28, 2011

Is there a limit to the amount of text (size of the string) that can be accumulated in PluggableTextMorph>>appendText:aTextOrString ? If so, what's the limit? If so, how do you test the size? Does the performance of 'appendText:' degrade as the string lengthens? -- View this message in context: http://forum.world.st/PluggableTextMorph-appendText-aTextOrString-tp3479980… Sent from the Pharo Smalltalk Users mailing list archive at Nabble.com.

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Re: [Pharo-users] Backward compatibility [WAS] Re: [ANN] PharoDev-1.3-13173
by Marcus Denker April 27, 2011

April 27, 2011

On Apr 27, 2011, at 11:47 AM, Ted F.A. van Gaalen wrote: > Thanks, > (I have mixed feelings about this, it's a sort of trade-off). It's the trade-off between *having a future* or *having the past*. Is the past of Smalltalk valuable enough to be able to not invest in the Future? Lot's of people think it is, but Pharo was started to *exactly* not do that. 10 years of "doing nothing" with Squeak is for me enough for the rest of my life... the reason there was not backward-compatibility, but "wanting too much". ("not do the next step because Squeak is so imortant that we can not settle for less then perfection"). But *how* you rationalize standing still is not really important... > I hope that on the source level (particularly system classes) at > least upward compatibility remains. We deprecate important APIs and keep them for one Release. "Doing nothing is not an option". Marcus -- Marcus Denker -- http://www.marcusdenker.de INRIA Lille -- Nord Europe. Team RMoD.

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Re: [Pharo-users] Backward compatibility [WAS] Re: [ANN] PharoDev-1.3-13173
by Marcus Denker April 27, 2011

April 27, 2011

On Apr 27, 2011, at 10:00 PM, StÃ©phane Ducasse wrote: >> It's the trade-off between *having a future* or *having the past*. > > ***excellent** we should twitter this one!!! > > >> >> "Doing nothing is not an option". > > Another excellent quote to twitter. You are in good form today. > I am on holidays ;-) Marcus -- Marcus Denker -- http://www.marcusdenker.de INRIA Lille -- Nord Europe. Team RMoD.

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[COTDC] 54 - BMPReadWriter
by laurent laffont April 27, 2011

April 27, 2011

Today: BMPReadWriter Comment Of The Day Contest - One Day One Comment Rules: #1: Each day a not commented class is elected. Each day the best comment will be integrated with name of the author(s). #2: If you cannot comment it, deprecate it. Results: http://code.google.com/p/pharo/wiki/CommentOfTheDayContest Laurent Laffont - @lolgzs <http://twitter.com/#%21/lolgzs> Pharo Smalltalk Screencasts: http://www.pharocasts.com/ Blog: http://magaloma.blogspot.com/ Developer group: http://cara74.seasidehosting.st

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