January 2020 - Pharo-users - lists.pharo.org

[ANN] New Headless VM (Still Alpha, but getting better)

by tesonep＠gmail.com

A new version of the headless VM is available. It can be downloaded from: https://files.pharo.org/vm/pharo-spur64-headless/win/PharoVM-8.3.0-b612fd5f… https://files.pharo.org/vm/pharo-spur64-headless/linux/PharoVM-8.3.0-b612fd… https://files.pharo.org/vm/pharo-spur64-headless/mac/PharoVM-8.3.0-b612fd5-… Or more easily using ZeroConf: With the image $ wget -O - get.pharo.org/64/90+vmHeadlessLatest | bash Without $ wget -O - get.pharo.org/64/vmHeadlessLatest90 | bash This new version has a series of bugfixes and the following features: - Update TFFI to v1.2.0: Allowing better marshaling and callbacks from outside threads. - Update README.md - Add instructions on how to create a vmmaker image. - Fixing UnixOSProcessPlugin - Redefinition of squeakFileOffset - Generating include files as an artifact - Adding a configurable strategy for reading / writing the image - Building using Musl Libc - A cleaner implementation of the print to stdout and file. - OSX File Dialog - OSX icon customization - OSX customization for apps. - Adding build on GitHub actions I will like to thank all the contributors specially Guille, Esteban, Ronnie. And also, Feenk and Schmidt that they are using it, reporting issues and contributing. Just a friendly reminder, if you want to contribute, you are always welcome!! https://github.com/pharo-project/opensmalltalk-vm Cheers, Pablo -- Pablo Tesone. tesonep(a)gmail.com

Jan. 28, 2020

Re: [Pharo-users] What is the idiomatic way to store data in pharo?

by HilaireFernandes

Steve Quezadas wrote > Do I connect to some sort mysql database or is there a better "smalltalk" > way to do it? The Pharo way is Fuel, it will let you persist a tree of object. The package is present in Pharo by default. Easy and fast. It is documented in one of the Pharo book. Another way is JSON but I don't know it. Sven can speak about it. Its advantage over Fuel, the file format is portable. Hilaire ----- http://drgeo.eu -- Sent from: http://forum.world.st/Pharo-Smalltalk-Users-f1310670.html

Jan. 28, 2020

Re: [Pharo-users] Is Pharo is a good frontend system for a game console?

by Vince Refiti

Hi Steve Significant things I like about Lua: It is small and simple. It is even simpler that Smalltalk. I can explain Lua to my children by telling them to write everything as functions. With Smalltalk, navigating the IDE is difficult and getting to grips with the class structure is far more difficult. It is fast, especially LuaJit. It is embedded in a wide variety of other software and can be used to script said software, e.g., Redis, nginx, Love (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_applications_using_Lua) It is also a superior alternative to bash, tcsh, etc for shell scripting. LuaJit FFI is very straightforward. Lua coroutines is concurrency done right and is very simple. I use Lua Love (https://love2d.org/ ) to teach my children programming. It is a very good transition from Scratch/Phratch. Games and apps can deployed to all common platforms (Windows, Linux, Android, iOS). I also have been looking at programming Roblox with Lua (https://developer.roblox.com/en-us/learn-roblox/coding-scripts ) as an alternative. I use Lua Lapis (https://leafo.net/lapis/) for personal family sites. It runs from inside nginx and is hellishly fast. In summary, a small, embeddable, easy to use language with a wide variety of uses. Vince From: Pharo-users [mailto:pharo-users-bounces@lists.pharo.org] On Behalf Of Steve Quezadas Sent: Tuesday, 28 January 2020 1:09 PM To: Any question about pharo is welcome <pharo-users(a)lists.pharo.org> Subject: Re: [Pharo-users] Is Pharo is a good frontend system for a game console? EXTERNAL: Do not click links or open attachments if you do not recognize the sender. What do you like about Lua? curious; On Thu, Jan 16, 2020 at 5:20 PM Vince Refiti <vince.refiti(a)trapezegroup.com.au<mailto:vince.refiti@trapezegroup.com.au>> wrote: Hi I would use Lua Love (https://love2d.org/<https://urldefense.com/v3/__https:/love2d.org/__;!!I_DbfM1H!XCvDtMIwWilEKDd…>) for such things. Vince -----Original Message----- From: Pharo-users [mailto:pharo-users-bounces@lists.pharo.org<mailto:pharo-users-bounces@lists.pharo.org>] On Behalf Of ponyatov Sent: Friday, 17 January 2020 9:29 AM To: pharo-users(a)lists.pharo.org<mailto:pharo-users@lists.pharo.org> Subject: [Pharo-users] Is Pharo is a good frontend system for a game console? EXTERNAL: Do not click links or open attachments if you do not recognize the sender. Good day I'm playing with custom little Linux for retrogaming console based on Raspberry Pi 4. Is Pharo is a good frontend system (GUI) for a game console? There is no mouse or keyboard by default, only joystick. So running Smalltalk interface on system bootup has some questions on usability. Also, it should be able to run external native binary programs that can use OpenGL and SDL/SDL2 so I'm not sure is the Pharo graphics system will be run on direct framebuffer without X11, and is it stable to be used with such libraries. -- Sent from: https://urldefense.com/v3/__http://forum.world.st/Pharo-Smalltalk-Users-f13…<https://urldefense.com/v3/__http:/forum.world.st/Pharo-Smalltalk-Users-f131…>

Jan. 28, 2020

Re: [Pharo-users] What is the idiomatic way to store data in pharo?

by Vince Refiti

Hi Steve Some ways I would do it, given what you have described: 1. Store in the image itself. An ordered collection can be used to store the your MOTD objects and iterate over them with the #do:, #select:, etc methods. For images I would store them on the file system and use a URI from your objects to point to it. 2. SQLite (https://github.com/pharo-rdbms/Pharo-SQLite3) 3. If you wish to distribute this then maybe a central server the your client can pull the MOTD objects from. Something running Teapot talking to SQLite3 or even Postgres via Svenâs excellent P3 (https://github.com/svenvc/P3) 4. Something I was thinking of looking into more is John Aspinallâs ReStore for Pharo (https://github.com/rko281/ReStoreForPharo) Vince From: Pharo-users [mailto:pharo-users-bounces@lists.pharo.org] On Behalf Of Steve Quezadas Sent: Tuesday, 28 January 2020 11:36 AM To: Any question about pharo is welcome <pharo-users(a)lists.pharo.org> Subject: Re: [Pharo-users] What is the idiomatic way to store data in pharo? EXTERNAL: Do not click links or open attachments if you do not recognize the sender. is voyage the most common way to do it? On Mon, Jan 27, 2020 at 5:32 PM tbrunz <wild.ideas(a)gmail.com<mailto:wild.ideas@gmail.com>> wrote: How about Voyage? https://github.com/pharo-nosql/voyage<https://urldefense.com/v3/__https:/github.com/pharo-nosql/voyage__;!!I_DbfM…> -- Sent from: http://forum.world.st/Pharo-Smalltalk-Users-f1310670.html<https://urldefense.com/v3/__http:/forum.world.st/Pharo-Smalltalk-Users-f131…>

Jan. 28, 2020

Re: [Pharo-users] smalltalk conferences

by Eric Gade

NYC here. Any ST meetups would be great On Mon, Jan 27, 2020 at 10:06 PM Todd Blanchard via Pharo-users < pharo-users(a)lists.pharo.org> wrote: > San Diego here. > > > On Jan 27, 2020, at 5:37 PM, tbrunz <wild.ideas(a)gmail.com> wrote: > > > > I'm in Los Angeles. Plenty of places to hold conferences here! (San > Diego & > > San Francisco, too.) > > > > > > > > > > -- > > Sent from: http://forum.world.st/Pharo-Smalltalk-Users-f1310670.html > > > > > -- Eric

Jan. 28, 2020

Re: [Pharo-users] Is Pharo is a good frontend system for a game console?

by Steve Quezadas

What do you like about Lua? curious; On Thu, Jan 16, 2020 at 5:20 PM Vince Refiti < vince.refiti(a)trapezegroup.com.au> wrote: > Hi > > I would use Lua Love (https://love2d.org/) for such things. > > Vince > > -----Original Message----- > From: Pharo-users [mailto:pharo-users-bounces@lists.pharo.org] On Behalf > Of ponyatov > Sent: Friday, 17 January 2020 9:29 AM > To: pharo-users(a)lists.pharo.org > Subject: [Pharo-users] Is Pharo is a good frontend system for a game > console? > > EXTERNAL: Do not click links or open attachments if you do not recognize > the sender. > > Good day > > I'm playing with custom little Linux for retrogaming console based on > Raspberry Pi 4. > > Is Pharo is a good frontend system (GUI) for a game console? > > There is no mouse or keyboard by default, only joystick. So running > Smalltalk interface on system bootup has some questions on usability. Also, > it should be able to run external native binary programs that can use > OpenGL and SDL/SDL2 so I'm not sure is the Pharo graphics system will be > run on direct framebuffer without X11, and is it stable to be used with > such libraries. > > > > > -- > Sent from: > https://urldefense.com/v3/__http://forum.world.st/Pharo-Smalltalk-Users-f13… > >

Jan. 28, 2020

Re: [Pharo-users] smalltalk conferences

by Todd Blanchard

San Diego here. > On Jan 27, 2020, at 5:37 PM, tbrunz <wild.ideas(a)gmail.com> wrote: > > I'm in Los Angeles. Plenty of places to hold conferences here! (San Diego & > San Francisco, too.) > > > > > -- > Sent from: http://forum.world.st/Pharo-Smalltalk-Users-f1310670.html >

Jan. 28, 2020

Re: [Pharo-users] smalltalk conferences

by tbrunz

I'm in Los Angeles. Plenty of places to hold conferences here! (San Diego & San Francisco, too.) -- Sent from: http://forum.world.st/Pharo-Smalltalk-Users-f1310670.html

Jan. 28, 2020

Re: [Pharo-users] What is the idiomatic way to store data in pharo?

by Steve Quezadas

is voyage the most common way to do it? On Mon, Jan 27, 2020 at 5:32 PM tbrunz <wild.ideas(a)gmail.com> wrote: > How about Voyage? > > https://github.com/pharo-nosql/voyage > > > > > -- > Sent from: http://forum.world.st/Pharo-Smalltalk-Users-f1310670.html > >

Jan. 28, 2020

Re: [Pharo-users] What is the idiomatic way to store data in pharo?

by tbrunz

How about Voyage? https://github.com/pharo-nosql/voyage -- Sent from: http://forum.world.st/Pharo-Smalltalk-Users-f1310670.html

Jan. 28, 2020