June 2012 - Pharo-users - lists.pharo.org

funny idea Symbol vs. Selector
by stephane ducasse May 14, 2015

May 14, 2015

Hi guys I'm thinking aloud... I was wondering if we could not take advantage of a new class: Selector. MethodDict would only contain selectors and not symbols. I remember that I talked about that with hernan. Stef

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Postmark email library
by Francois Stephany Aug. 31, 2013

Aug. 31, 2013

Hi guys, I've made a simple wrapper around the Postmark API. It lets you send emails without dealing with a SMTP server. You can read about it here: http://developer.postmarkapp.com/developer-libs.html http://developer.postmarkapp.com/developer-build.html and there: http://articles.tulipemoutarde.be/send-email-from-pharo-with-postmark It's pretty simple and naive implementation but it gets the job done. I'll add email attachements when I will need it. Francois

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Package browser?
by Rob Vens June 28, 2013

June 28, 2013

I am attempting to do the Pharo by Example book, but a package browser (which is used in the examples) is not in the 1.1.1 or 1.2 image. Should I still use categories? If I create a package in Monticello browser I am not able to add classes or anything (not as far as I could see). Just starting out using Pharo, so apologies if these questions are already answered elsewhere.

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FFI basics..
by S Krish Sept. 28, 2012

Sept. 28, 2012

* How does FFI work for passing a char* argument that gets modified in the invoked module char* ctest ( char* test , char** test2) { test = "Modify this argument"; // loop and fill in data into test2 and return.. return "something else"; } ctest: test <cdecl: char* 'ctest' ( char* , long ) module: 'libctest'> So invoking this with say ExternalAddress allocate: **, gives us the values as modified by the module.. and be converted as required into ByteArray for the second

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Zinc crashes an image.
by Paul DeBruicker Sept. 25, 2012

Sept. 25, 2012

Hi - I'm pretty sure I'm having the same problem Phillipe had/described in this message: http://forum.world.st/Zinc-crashing-image-at-start-up-td3785797.html At least the PharoDebug.log is the same. It happens on both the most recent Cog and interpreter VM. Is there a way to recover from this? I could follow Sean's instructions from this thread if necessary: http://forum.world.st/Fwd-Oops-I-put-a-halt-in-a-startup-method-td3800729.h… Or is there a way to extract changes from a changes file for one image into another image? I'd rather fix the broken image but if its not possible I'd then just try to load those changes I don't have. Thanks for any guidance you can provide. Paul

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GemSource, seaside.gemstone.com, SS3 MAINTENANCE Saturday June 9 from 10am-2pm PDT
by Dale Henrichs Sept. 11, 2012

Sept. 11, 2012

Maintenance is scheduled for this Saturday and according to the internal announcement no downtime is anticipated: The work is considered low risk and no downtime is anticipated, this is being sent out as a courtesy. If you experience problems on Saturday, don't hesitate to send email. Dale

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**IMPORTANT** MUST READ: Pharo Association and Consortium
by StÃ©phane Ducasse July 1, 2012

July 1, 2012

Dear Pharoers and Smalltalkers This mail is really important so read it carefully. Especially the last part of the mail is important for the immediate future: we need your support and input. Read section ***Support*** at the end of this mail. Context ======= After taking into account feedback from companies and pharo users in different occasions and discussing with the INRIA lawyers and the team in charge of the administrative aspect of the consoritum here is the setup we finally want for the consortium. We will have two separated entities: - one french law 1901 association for individuals and - one consortium for institutions (companies, research groups, laboratories, universities...) managed by INRIA We hope that in the long run the consortium will be fully managed by the association but in the current bootstrap phase INRIA is a good solution. ============== The Pharo Association ============== The goal of the association is to promote Pharo. It will have its own web site. Individual Memberships (managed by the Pharo Association) ---------------------- There are two individual memberships - Individual Pharo Association Member: Yearly fee 40 Euros - Golden Individual Pharo Association Member: Yearly fee 99 Euros You will get a nice goody, reduction access to conferences, reduction for training and access to teaching material, be part of the pharo groups on social networks, be part of the pharoAssociation-individual-members mailing-list, get access and registered to the pharo association web site. Others (managed by the Pharo Association) ---------------------- The association will be able to issues bills so you will be able to buy a Pharo distribution when your organization cannot be a member, a sponsor or doing a donation to the Pharo consortium. End of Pharo Association Description =========================== The Pharo Consortium (managed by INRIA) =========================== The goal of the consortium is to structure and build an umbrella to foster business around Pharo and to promote Pharo. A company, user group, research group, team or institution can be a consortium member, not individual member. There are three levels of fees and corresponding benefits. You decide your degree of support. The annual fees are - Bronze 1000 Euros - Silver 2000 Euros - Gold 4000 Euros Consortium members main advantages are ---------------------------------------- Non individual members of the consortium get the following advantages: - privileged access to the core development team via a specific mailing-list pharo-core-team-for-members(a)lists.gforge.inria.fr - influence priorities of the next development. The member will be able to propose agenda points and items for the executive team. They will be requested one month in advance before the committee meeting. - get access to privileged core engineer time (to address pharo core problems) - Bronze member gets one day of engineering time + is automatically a diamond sponsor. - Silver + two days of engineering time + one job description for job dashboard + is automatically a diamond sponsor.. - Gold four + 4 days of engineering time + multiple job description for job dashboard + is automatically a diamond sponsor. - Training special prices and possibility to become pharo trainer - Pharo consortium member can also ask and pay for extra support days at INRIA engineer prices (around 600 Euros) per day. - Member can offer to their client access to the possibility to pay for extra support days at INRIA engineer prices (around 600 Euros) per day. - The core team can provide contact with experts for certain areas of development. Pharo Consortium Gouvernance: steering committee ---------------------------------------- The consortium will be managed as follows: There will be a steering committee and an Executive Team. * A steering committee is composed of one representative of each member (except individuals). * The chairman of this committee will be Inria * Steering Committee Role : - The Steering Committee follows the execution of the PHARO R&D Team - It validates and gives input about the task list of the Executive Team. - It can propose members of the executive team. - It prepares, organizes conferences, seminars or other animations to promote PHARO and have new members - It revises the annual fee * Decisions taking: after consultation and collect of representative member points of views, Inria takes the final decision. * The steering committee will communicate via a private mailing-list. It may meet physical once a year. * An agenda to reach conclusion will be established by Inria on proposals of the members (the members will be queried a month in advance). Technical Executive Committee (akaR&D task) ---------------------------------------- * The Executive Team is composed of members proposed by the steering board and RMOD Team * Its roles is to * Study, analyze and validate external contributions for PHARO * Report to the steering committee * Present a task list to the steering committee. * Propose, schedule and implement tasks in conformance with the tasks list. * Coordinate the release Pharo and its VMs Pharo consortium Sponsoring --------------------------- Orthogonally to memberships, an entity can be a sponsor of the consortium without being a pharo consortium member. Pharo consortium are de factor platinium sponsor. Sponsors will get their logos name exposed to the consortium web site. There are two kinds of sponsors: - normal 500 Euros - diamond 1000 Euros Job board --------- Non consortium member companies will be able to pay a fee (1000 Euros) to post job offers to the job board. End of Pharo Consortium Description ===================== *** Support and Answer needed*** ===================== To be able to pay an engineer by the consortium, INRIA needs to make projection, build budget, pay attention to visa and other important administrative tasks. To deal with the risk that the consortium may not collect enough to pay a full salary we are considering to ask INRIA to help us financially. To do so we have to give some concrete figures to INRIA and motivate our request. In addition, our team (RMOD) on its own budget will try to compensate by allocating extra resources However, this will be only a one shot. In addition, some of our team members have been approached by google to work on chrome and dart Virtual Machines. So if we really get a future we should build it now. Many of you told us that they want to support the consortium, now we need to know what would be amount of membership, sponsoring you could give. So please read carefully this mail and send us a mail at stephane.ducasse(a)inria.fr with the same subject than this one. We will collect the information and build a case to present to INRIA. Thanks in advance for Pharo and for the future that we are building together. The RMOD team and the Pharo board

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Re: [Pharo-users] Versionner a GUI for metacello
by DeNigris Sean July 1, 2012

July 1, 2012

I made a few enhancements to ConfigurationOfVersionner: * allowing it to load (development version) on 2.0 * fixing it for the new Metacello bootstrap, which no longer loads the Toolbox ConfigurationOfVersionner-SeanDeNigris.63 * Update for new Metacello bootstrap (no longer loads by default - Add 'Metacello Toolbox' project to baseline 1.2 - Add 'Metacello Toolbox' as a dependency of Versionner-Core-Model * Fix for Pharo 2.0 - Use #'development' version of 'Glamour for Versionner' * Tiny refactor of loadWithGlamour to send #stableVersion instead of "version: #stable"

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[GSOC] News on the bootstrap project - pumping up with fuel
by Guillermo Polito June 30, 2012

June 30, 2012

Hi guys, I've written a new blog post telling how I started to modularize and test the pharo bootstrapped kernel: http://playingwithobjects.wordpress.com/2012/06/30/the-bootstrap-chronicles… For lazy readers: SUnit is running on our little bootstrap image! And we have jenkins jobs extracting test information http://car.mines-douai.fr/ci/view/Seed%20Tests/ cheers, Guille

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Re: [Pharo-users] [Pharo-project] **IMPORTANT** MUST READ: Pharo Association and Consortium
by StÃ©phane Ducasse June 30, 2012

June 30, 2012

On Jun 30, 2012, at 12:46 PM, Herve Verjus wrote: > Hi All, > > thank you Stef for this piece of information. > > I will subscribe as individual member. > > Let's say, you're doing a good job, I enjoy a lot using Pharo, that let's me permit do/use funny and usefull things, teaching students, make some research software prototypes, etc. > I have to say I would probably not succeed in convincing my university staff to subscribe to the consortium. I personnaly vote for that, I will try and will do my best but I'am not optimistic :-( > I understand that the fees are intended for enterprises or organizations that aim to make business arround and/or with Pharo. I and my lab are not in such a perspective. Maybe I would succeed in convincing IAE director for some hundred euros for supporting your work...not for 1000 or more. Nevertheless, I will try. Thanks there is also the sponsoring possibility and the association can provide a bill for a pharo "distribution" So you can try to play with different budgets. > > All the best, > > Herve

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