March 2013 - Pharo-users - lists.pharo.org

Re: [Pharo-users] Why are SmallTalk projects/source code hosted on SS3 Gemstone instead of Git?
by Stephan Eggermont March 20, 2013

March 20, 2013

Victor Stan wrote: > Why are SmallTalk projects/source code hosted on SS3 Gemstone instead of > Git/GitHub? Because we have been using DVCS since a few years before git. Monticello is not as powerful as git, but it is integrated and the difference is not large enough to force change yet. > I'm coming to SmallTalk from the world of web development with open source > software, primarily Rails, and I'm very familiar with the amazing social > network/source code repository that is GitHub. It is truly an industry > defining entity, so many open source projects have been able to harness the > ease of use, features and community around Git and GitHub. Our perspective is a bit different. We use Moose and see the work of Veronica Uquillas Gomez on Torch (http://soft.vub.ac.be/torch/Home.html) and ask ourselves why people continue using bad abstractions. > At the moment, as I'm trying to learn more about SmallTalk and Pharo > especially, (my primary interest in Pharo is to use it as a web development > platform), I am a bit shocked, if I may be frank, at the tooling used for > source code and open source project management. I see that the popular > trend now is to move to SS3/Gemstone, and I appreciate anyone that helps > open source development/projects, but I can't see how they can even come > close to the functionality of GitHub for source code hosting and OS project > management, so I pose the question: is there an effort, why or why not, to > start integrating with GitHub and Git for source code management? Because it isn't that good. It is better than what we now have widely deployed, but it doesn't come close to what we can do when we find the time to integrate all the nice research tools. GitHub is centralized and a single point of failure. We will see it replaced by a distributed system. So it is a question of how much effort we want to put into what for us can only be an intermediate tool chain and way to connect to non-smalltalk parts of the systems we develop. Stephan Eggermont

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suggestion for book code snippets
by Paul Davidowitz March 20, 2013

March 20, 2013

I think it would be a good idea to have the book code snippets Incorporated into a SUnit regression test suite. (If doc is not treated as code, then sooner or later it will get out of sync...)

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Keymappings 101 tutorial
by Guillermo Polito March 20, 2013

March 20, 2013

Hi guys, I've written a little tutorial on Keymappings for Pharo 2.0. http://playingwithobjects.wordpress.com/2013/03/19/keymappings-101-for-phar… Hope it's useful :), Guille

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Glorp + Postgres array type
by Chris March 20, 2013

March 20, 2013

Hi, does anyone know if Glorp supports the array type in Postgres? I did a basicExecuteSQLString: and it came back with '{1,2,3}' so as if it might not be too complicated to make work for my scenario at least. I really want to do a toManyMapping using these integers in the array as a join to another table and have it resolve their objects, but wouldn't know where to start! Thanks Chris

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[ANN] Pharo 2.0
by Marcus Denker March 19, 2013

March 19, 2013

We are proud to announce the release of Pharo 2.0! You can find information about Pharo at: http://www.pharo-project.org About this release ------------------ All in all, there were over 1600 issues treated in the issue tracker and 1350 improvements integrated into 2.0. http://code.google.com/p/pharo/issues/list?can=1&q=Milestone%3D2.0+status%3… Read it again, yes 1350 is huge, take two minutes and have a look at the list of improvements! Now you got the feel of the effort. And this was a true community effort. It is possible because people worldwide helped! We want to deeply thank them. We want to thank Inria for its constant support, in particular for the salary of Igor Stasenko and Esteban Lorenzano, and for the help in the infrastructure. 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: - http://consortium.pharo.org (for companies and organizations) - http://association.pharo.org (for individuals) Our goal is to build a system so that we can make a living with our creativity and programming skills. You can find information about Pharo on http://www.pharo-project.org. In particular, you may be interested in: - Joining us and getting help http://www.pharo-project.org/community - Getting the Pharo By Example book (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 - Reading the forth coming book http://rmod.lille.inria.fr/pbe2 - Reading the Pharo vision document http://bit.ly/HNkEru Thanks a lot for your participation, energy and fun. -- The Pharo Team Summarized issues for 2.0 ================== UI --- - Spec - Widget enhancements - Layout improvements/cleanups - Keybindings - New icons (famfam) - Growl style notifications - Revamp progress bar Developer tools --------------- - Nautilus browser - Critics browser - Improved version diff browsing - Spotlight - Revamp Code Completion and smart chars - Interactive navigation using ctrl/cmd+click over classes/methods - Shout themes - Andreas profiler Networking ----------- - Update Zinc - Zodiac (SSL) System ------- - System Announcer - RPackage replacing PackageInfo - Command line tools / Headless mode - Native boost - Update Ring metamodel - Fuel serializer - Freetype fonts Kernel ------ - DateAndTime refactoring - Updated FileSystem and replaced FileDirectory VM -- - Latests cog builds - SSLPlugin - FilePlugin enhancements - SocketPlugin fixes - Included libraries: freetype2, cairo Cleanups ------------- - FileDirectory removed (replaced by FileSystem) - SmartRefStream and ReferenceStream removed (replaced by Fuel) - PackageInfo deprecated (replaced by RPackage) Other ------- - Zeroconf scripts - Continuous Integration for every aspect of our release process. Not all the changes are reported here, but this is to give you an impression, you can find better explanation here: https://code.google.com/p/pharo/wiki/ActionsInPharo20

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Unicode in Smalltalk
by Mohammad Al Houssami (Alumni) March 19, 2013

March 19, 2013

Hello again. Does anyone know how can we reflect Unicode characters in Smalltalk? I want to read characters and compare them with a Unicode representation. Like U+0026 for & or U+003C for < and so on.. Thanks Mohammad

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WebDav
by phil＠highoctane.be March 18, 2013

March 18, 2013

How would one implement WebDAV on a Pharo 2.0 image? I saw several projects for Squeak but wonder what the best approach would be. Phil

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pharoconf | mooseday | 2013 - call for participation
by Tudor Girba March 17, 2013

March 17, 2013

(please distribute) We are happy to invite you to the PharoConf | MooseDay | 2013: http://scg.unibe.ch/wiki/events/pharoconf-mooseday-2013 The conference will take place at the University of Bern during April 2-4: - PharoConf (April 2,3) - MooseDay (April 4) The conference will be free and will even include a free lunch. Yes, free lunch. No trick. We only kindly ask you to register online for each event as soon as possible. STUDENT SPONSORSHIPS: ESUG will sponsor the travel of up to 10 students with 150 EUR / person. Please apply for sponsorship by mail at esug-info(a)esug.org. First-come, first-served. The conference sponsors will sponsor the travel of up to 10 students with up to 200 CHF / person. Please apply for sponsorship before the conference by mail at tudor(a)tudorgirba.com. First-come, first-served. IMPORTANT If you are a student, please bring your student cards with you to help us limit the lunch costs. Cheers, The organizers

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Changing mouse position from Pharo.
by Santiago Bragagnolo March 16, 2013

March 16, 2013

Hi all! I'm doing a bizarre experiment where i need to change the position of the mouse to a fixed point (like make the mouse pointer to jump from where it is to a button). Does anyone have a clue about how to? Thanks in advance! Santiago

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Saving in Pharo
by Mohammad Al Houssami (Alumni) March 16, 2013

March 16, 2013

Hello everyone, This is probably the stupidest question you might get but when you hit cmd + s when coding doesn't this save the image ? I've been working for 8 hours now and when I closed pharo I pressed YES for quite without saving because im stupid!!!! I lost all my work right ? :) I have to right click and save for the changes to be saved right ? :) Is there anyway to get them back or shall I forget about it ? Im so desperate Thanks Mohammad

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