September 2019 - Pharo-users

[ANN] New Windows VM - Fixes 1903 error
by tesonep＠gmail.com Sept. 26, 2019

Sept. 26, 2019

Hello, a new stable VM has been deployed. This VM uses a new version of libSSH allowing us to work in the latest Windows version. It can be directly updated using Pharo Launcher or downloaded using ZeroConf scripts. To update from Pharo Launcher you have to access to the VM Manager window. Just click on the marked button and then in "Update" [image: updateVM.png] Thanks!!! Cheers, Pablo -- Pablo Tesone. tesonep(a)gmail.com

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Using Pharo for instrumentation & process control
by Brainstorms Sept. 25, 2019

Sept. 25, 2019

Hi Ben, The ML didn't break out Guillermo's topic change into a new thread as I expected it to, so I'm "manually" starting this as a new one -- unless there's a better/easier way..?? I'll respond to your message more fully later today (and after I've checked out your links). In the meantime... https://www.linkedin.com/in/ted-brunzie-2931b5 <https://www.linkedin.com/in/ted-brunzie-2931b5> -Ted Ben Coman wrote > Cool! I'd be interested to track what you do in this space. > (I'm an electrical engineer and always thought Pharo would make a great > SCADA system. > https://www.linkedin.com/in/bencoman/ ) > > Btw, I haven't managed to bubble playing-with-this to the top of my queue, > but it may interest you... > https://github.com/jmari/StModbus > > cheers -ben -- Sent from: http://forum.world.st/Pharo-Smalltalk-Users-f1310670.html

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Re: [Pharo-users] [Pharo-dev] Pumping FFI documentation [WAS] FFI beginner question
by Ben Coman Sept. 25, 2019

Sept. 25, 2019

On Wed, 25 Sep 2019 at 13:51, StÃ©phane Ducasse <stephane.ducasse(a)inria.fr> wrote: > Hi > > Normally each time a PR is integrated in a book, the CI is generating the > PDF. > https://github.com/SquareBracketAssociates/Booklet-uFFI/releases > > So what you can do is to not bother and copy-edit and we fix the > corresponding pillar > if you break it. > Hey Stef :) I'm guessing you mean to encourage Ted to "not worry" rather than "not bother" https://www.phrasemix.com/phrases/not-bother-doing-something cheers -ben

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FFI beginner question
by Richard O'Keefe Sept. 25, 2019

Sept. 25, 2019

I am developing a Smalltalk interface to an existing C library which I intend to make generally available. Naturally I am doing this in my own Smalltalk system first, where it's unsurprisingly easy for me. But when I have it working, I'd like to make a Pharo port available. I have never used the Foreign Function Interface in Pharo before and don't even know where to start. What should I read first? Is there a model project to imitate?

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Difficulty to use Iceberg
by Brainstorms Sept. 24, 2019

Sept. 24, 2019

Jan Vrany <[hidden email]> wrote: > Hi, > > I'm experiencing difficulties (code loss, even) when trying to > commit code using Iceberg. > > I have a project with consist of some Pharo code and some > C++ code. Both parts kind of depend on each other. >... > Any suggestions? Would "git worktree add" solve your problem? This allows you to create multiple working trees that are all associated with the same repository. I expect it would allow Pharo to interact with the original working copy while providing a second working directory for your C++ co-development, but without the need to clone an additional working copy. -Ted -- Sent from: http://forum.world.st/Pharo-Smalltalk-Users-f1310670.html

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Reminder: Smalltalk Webcamp, 22nd of October
by Johan Brichau Sept. 24, 2019

Sept. 24, 2019

Hi, Are you doing Web development with Smalltalk? Then this meeting is for you. We organise an informal meetup on Smalltalk Web Technologies at the Yesplan offices. =============================================== Smalltalk WebCamp --------------------------- Date: Tuesday October 22nd, 2019 (9h30 -> 18h00) Location: Yesplan offices in Gent, Belgium. (www.yesplan.be <http://www.yesplan.be/>) =============================================== This is an un-conference: everyone is invited to actively participate by presenting their project. Come and share your web development experience with Smalltalk. Wether you are doing Seaside, Teapot, PharoJS, Amber, SqueakJs, Zinc REST, â¦ or anything else that involves Smalltalk and web technologies: come and share your experience! We provide ample time to discuss and collaborate on topics, meet people and have a beer in the evening. Attendance is free, but please register before October 15th if you are attending, so we can plan accordingly. Registration link: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/smalltalk-webcamp-tickets-69185265993 <https://www.eventbrite.com/e/smalltalk-webcamp-tickets-69185265993> At this time, there are 9 participants, excluding the Yesplan team. Questions? Please send me an email. Best regards Johan Brichau johan(a)yesplan.be <mailto:johan@yesplan.be>

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Re: [Pharo-users] Code of Conduct
by Ben Coman Sept. 24, 2019

Sept. 24, 2019

makes me wonder whether he's such a machiavellian sociopath, or a useful idiot. On Thu, 19 Sep 2019 at 23:07, Eugen Leitl via Pharo-users < pharo-users(a)lists.pharo.org> wrote: > Let's see, I've posted one email to this list describing the dangers > of abusing CoCs I guess you refer to this one... > On Tue, 17 Sep 2019 at 19:39, Eugen Leitl via Pharo-users < pharo-users(a)lists.pharo.org> wrote: > I agree. Technical people are too easy to exploit by malignant manipulators of people. > All too often they don't even realize it after the fact. Thats fairly benign and doubt it had anything to do with being blocked on github. > and one post to GitHub describing the motivations of > people who introduce CoCs, and immediately get banned on GitHub from > Note, the board member who blocked your GIthub account and deleted your post there also voiced their opinion as being... For me a "welcome and be nice" should be enough to just continue as before. I find the introduction of CoC was a noise we didn't need, our community was doing well and self-regulated without problem until now. So in spite of your implication, I doubt there is anything sinister from the CoC in play here. Comments such as "makes me wonder whether he's such a machiavellian sociopath, or a useful idiot." have been consistently condemned years before thought of a CoC. > I'm getting called a troll and a nobody in public by members of the > project, Its not that you are a "nobody", but actually you were "unknown to us" two days ago. Maybe you don't know Serge, but we've know him for years and his good work including governance of our GSoC participation so please consider why such comments from a newcomer may be dealt with as a troll. Community standards do not maintain themselves: They're maintained by people actively applying them, visibly, in public. Now personally I'm not going to condemn you on one slip. I've been told to pull my head in before and they were right - I was venting after a bad day at work. But no one held it against me long. These nontechnical and emotion-charge debates are infrequent and I hope get a chance to see how things normally run once we are past it. cheers -ben

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Pharo 8 and Teapot
by sergio ruiz Sept. 24, 2019

Sept. 24, 2019

Just checking in on this. I started up a REST API project in Pharo 8. I thought I read somewhere that Teapot was failing tests in Pharo 8. I fired it up, and put together the beginnings of the project, and it looks fine. All tests pass. There was one SSL test that was not running in 7 either, but Iâll take a look at that when I get a chance. Thanks! ---- peace, sergio photographer, journalist, visionary Public Key: http://bit.ly/29z9fG0 #BitMessage BM-NBaswViL21xqgg9STRJjaJaUoyiNe2dV @sergio_101@mastodon.social https://sergio101.com http://www.codeandmusic.com http://www.twitter.com/sergio_101 http://www.facebook.com/sergio101

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Where did all the Comments Go?
by Andrew Black Sept. 23, 2019

Sept. 23, 2019

My third attempt to post this ... Iâm coming back to Pharo after not having used it for several months. Iâm pleased to see that Pharo 7 is now stable and that work has started on Pharo 8. I downloaded a new Pharo Launcher (the old one could no longer figure out which version of the VM to use), used the Launcher to create a Pharo 7.0 stable image, and started loading my packages into it from github. My attempt to install the baseline of my code failed when some initialization code could not get the definitionComment for my parser (which is written using SmaCC). Normally, SmaCC stores oneâs whole grammar _as a method comment_ in a method called definitionComment. Oddly, this method was empty, even though the version on disk (in the file Grace-Parser.package/GraceParser.class/class/definitionComment.st) contained the comment, as I expected. Hoping to at least complete the installation of my code, I manually copied the comment from this file into Calypso and saved the method. It looked fine, but as soon as I moved Calypso to another method, and then back again, the comment had disappeared. I experimented with adding comments to other methods: they looked fine, and I could save the method, but if I moved to another method and then back, the comment had disappeared. Class comments have also disappeared. I donât think that this is a Calypso problem, because the loading of code from git would not involve Calypso. Rather it is a code storage problem. I saw a File System primitive failure when I launched my new image, but ignored it; Iâm guessing that the comments disappear because they are only in the file system, whereas the code is in memory. And for some reason I canât access the sources file? The changes file ahs been created as expected. I just tried downloading the VM manually, and running the âstableâ image that I created, and this time got a different file system primitive failure on startup: #createDirectory in MacStore. Whatâs going on? Whatâs the right way to get a working Pharo in the New World Order? Andrew

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[ANN] Next Pharo Sprint: Sept 27
by Marcus Denker Sept. 23, 2019

Sept. 23, 2019

We will organize a Pharo sprint / Moose dojo Sept 27, starting at 10:00am. (Local Time Paris). Goals of this sprint: - Pharo 8: Fix issues from tracker https://github.com/pharo-project/pharo/issues Remote Sprint: Remotely, you can join us on Discord. During the sprint, we synchronize local and remote Pharo sprinters: http://pharo.org/contribute-events We have added a Board to coordinate the work: https://github.com/orgs/pharo-project/projects/9 Known Local Sprint meetings - Lille/France: It will be at the Inria Lille, Building B, third floor (RMoD offices). As the building is not open to the public, please contact us before if you plan to come A list of all Pharo Event of the year an be found here: https://association.pharo.org/events

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