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

Want to contribute.... it is easy
by StÃ©phane Ducasse June 24, 2020

June 24, 2020

Hi If you are a native english speaker (or just good in english) have limited amount of time but still want to contribute You can be on the other side and contribute to Pharo. Please consider reading the books and making Pull Requests on the github repositories. You do not have to know Pillar, you do not have to install LaTeX, you do not have to know LaTeX, you do not even have to be good in Pharo, you just have to read and do a PR request. All our books are built automatically on PRs! https://github.com/SquareBracketAssociates/ I would like to publicly thanks Sean de Nigris Ted Brunz Rene Pierre Mages for their large edit pass on the books. S. -------------------------------------------- StÃ©phane Ducasse http://stephane.ducasse.free.fr / http://www.pharo.org 03 59 35 87 52 Assistant: Aurore Dalle FAX 03 59 57 78 50 TEL 03 59 35 86 16 S. Ducasse - Inria 40, avenue Halley, Parc Scientifique de la Haute Borne, BÃ¢t.A, Park Plaza Villeneuve d'Ascq 59650 France

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[ANN] PharoPro
by Norbert Hartl June 23, 2020

June 23, 2020

Dear community, we are very proud to announce the availability of PharoPro, a company that offers professional support for the pharo platform. Our mission is to enable people and companies to secure their business when building products with pharo. We have been tinkering with the idea creating it for a long time. We talked to a lot of people, especially at last ESUG in cologne and finally decided to do it. So at the end of last year we founded the company PharoPro. Obstacles (one being covid-19) kept us from make it public until today. In close relationship with the pharo consortium our mission is to extend the market opportunities for pharo. Although PharoPro is new and still small we want to show our commitment to the consortium and the community from the start. We decided therefor that PharoPro will join the pharo consortium as platinum member. Our plans apart from support contracts is to have an LTS (long term support) version of pharo, create a professional pharo ecosystem with libraries and frameworks and to help out building the infrastructure pharo needs. We are still shaping up. We want to know your requirements and needs that help us deciding what are the most needed things. So you might visit http://pharo-pro.com and then come talk to us. Best regards and health, Norbert PharoPro GmbH

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UFFI Problem: A call to an external function failed (FFIOpaqueObject)
by Georg Hagn June 23, 2020

June 23, 2020

For an exercise with uFFi i am try an C-Connector for MariaDB like Garage or UBDC As in "Unified FFI Februar 12 2020" I made Helper-classes: FFILibrary subclass: #MariaDBLibC FFIOpaqueObject subclass: #MariaDBHandle MariaDBHandle >> unixModuleName [ ^ '/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libmariadb.so' ] and a class Object subclass: #MariaDBDriver instanceVariableNames: 'connectionHandle' "Accessors" MariaDBDriver >> connectionHandle [ ^ connectionHandle ] MariaDBDriver >> connectionHandle: aHandle [ connectionHandle := aHandle ] MariaDBDriver class >> ffiLibrary [ ^ MariaDBLibC ] "API Methods" MariaDBDriver >> clientInfo [ ^ self class clientInfo ] MariaDBDriver class >> clientInfo [ ^ self ffiCall: #(String mysql_get_client_info(void)) ] For a first simple Test I choosed the c-api-funtion: âconst char * mysql_get_client_info(void )â In Playground I executed: driver := MariaDBDriver fromConnectionString: 'mariaDB://localhost:5432/sodbxtest?&user=sodbxtest&password=sodbxtest'. driver clientInfo inspect. And I get the expected result: String â10.2.9â But the second test with c-api-funtcion fails âMYSQL * mysql_init(NULL)â MariaDBDriver >> init [ | aNullHandle | aNullHandle := ExternalAddress null. self connectionHandle: (self class init: aNullHandle). ] MariaDBDriver class >> init: aNullHandle [ ^ self ffiCall: #(MariaDBHandle * mysql_init(ExternalAddress aNullHandle)). ] In Playground I again executed: driver := MariaDBDriver fromConnectionString: 'mariaDB://localhost:5432/sodbxtest?&user=sodbxtest&password=sodbxtest'. driver init inspect. " A call to an external function failed" Any ideas what is wrong?? Thanks Georg

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Cant able to run EXE file using LibC
by shawon58 June 22, 2020

June 22, 2020

Hello I am trying to run "LibC system: 'D:\DEV_FreeCAD\build\bin\test1.exe' " . But it dont execute. But if i click the test1.exe than it execute. Thanks for the help -- Sent from: http://forum.world.st/Pharo-Smalltalk-Users-f1310670.html

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a simple question (I think)
by Russ Whaley June 21, 2020

June 21, 2020

I find myself, over and over, creating a & storing q new object in an instVar, then storing (my)self on that object - so I can have easy access to the 'object that created me.' <what I do now...> self instVar := NewClass new. self instVar callingObject: self. "where these call the same messages" self myMessage. self instVar callingObject myMessage. <is there a way to...> self instVar := NewClass new. self instVar objectWhoCreatedMe myMessage. "I know there is a 'thisContext sender' - but is there a 'who created me' concept?" Ultimately, there is no real overhead to storing (my)self on a new object, I guess, but as I'm developing and testing, I tend to have a whole lot of 'stranded objects' I have to remove manually. Thoughts? Thanks! -- Russ Whaley whaley.russ(a)gmail.com

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Re: [Pharo-users] [ANN] What are reasons NOT to use Smalltalk?
by Vitor Medina Cruz June 21, 2020

June 21, 2020

+1 On Fri, Jun 19, 2020 at 3:09 PM Todd Blanchard via Pharo-users < pharo-users(a)lists.pharo.org> wrote: > Same. My biggest hesitation is lack of cloud deployment support. At > least for web apps. > > For desktop apps, I have been holding off building any UI because of the > brik blok spec spec2 churn. > > On Jun 19, 2020, at 10:02 AM, Richard Sargent < > richard.sargent(a)gemtalksystems.com> wrote: > > It wouldn't let me vote without choosing an answer, none of which were my > answer. > > On Fri, Jun 19, 2020 at 9:32 AM Richard Kenneth Eng < > horrido.hobbies(a)gmail.com> wrote: > >> >> https://smalltalk.tech.blog/2020/06/19/what-are-reasons-not-to-use-smalltal… >> >> >> Thanks for participating in the poll. >> > >

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Re: [Pharo-users] [ANN] What are reasons NOT to use Smalltalk?
by Aliaksei Syrel June 19, 2020

June 19, 2020

> > For desktop apps, I have been holding off building any UI because of the > brik blok spec spec2 churn. Imagine trying to build any UI in javascript with their wide family of frameworks ;) On Fri, 19 Jun 2020 at 20:40, Todd Blanchard via Pharo-users < pharo-users(a)lists.pharo.org> wrote: > Same. My biggest hesitation is lack of cloud deployment support. At > least for web apps. > > For desktop apps, I have been holding off building any UI because of the > brik blok spec spec2 churn. > > On Jun 19, 2020, at 10:02 AM, Richard Sargent < > richard.sargent(a)gemtalksystems.com> wrote: > > It wouldn't let me vote without choosing an answer, none of which were my > answer. > > On Fri, Jun 19, 2020 at 9:32 AM Richard Kenneth Eng < > horrido.hobbies(a)gmail.com> wrote: > >> >> https://smalltalk.tech.blog/2020/06/19/what-are-reasons-not-to-use-smalltal… >> >> >> Thanks for participating in the poll. >> > >

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Re: [Pharo-users] [ANN] What are reasons NOT to use Smalltalk?
by Sven Van Caekenberghe June 19, 2020

June 19, 2020

Todd, > On 19 Jun 2020, at 19:04, Todd Blanchard via Pharo-users <pharo-users(a)lists.pharo.org> wrote: > > > From: Todd Blanchard <tblanchard(a)mac.com> > Subject: Re: [Pharo-users] [ANN] What are reasons NOT to use Smalltalk? > Date: 19 June 2020 at 19:04:37 CEST > To: Any question about pharo is welcome <pharo-users(a)lists.pharo.org> > > > Same. My biggest hesitation is lack of cloud deployment support. At least for web apps. If you are capable of deploying web applications, for any other technology stack, there is really no issue in doing the same for Pharo. Sven > For desktop apps, I have been holding off building any UI because of the brik blok spec spec2 churn. > >> On Jun 19, 2020, at 10:02 AM, Richard Sargent <richard.sargent(a)gemtalksystems.com> wrote: >> >> It wouldn't let me vote without choosing an answer, none of which were my answer. >> >> On Fri, Jun 19, 2020 at 9:32 AM Richard Kenneth Eng <horrido.hobbies(a)gmail.com> wrote: >> https://smalltalk.tech.blog/2020/06/19/what-are-reasons-not-to-use-smalltal… >> >> Thanks for participating in the poll. > > >

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Re: [Pharo-users] Want to run C code in Pharo using UFFI
by Rob van Lopik June 18, 2020

June 18, 2020

You may want to have a look at: https://fuhrmanator.github.io/2019/03/16/LibC-Pharo-experiments.html hth rob van lopik > > ******************************************* >

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Want to run C code in Pharo using UFFI
by shawon58 June 18, 2020

June 18, 2020

Hello There i am new to Pharo, so as i learn UFFI can handle c code, but i want to know that, how to run below attached code using UFFI. #include<stdlib.h> #include<stdio.h> int main( void ) { int result ; result=system("D:/DEV_FreeCAD/build/bin/box.step"); printf("%d",result); return 0; } So if anyone have idea please share with me. It will be a great help to me. Thanks for your kind help -- Sent from: http://forum.world.st/Pharo-Smalltalk-Users-f1310670.html

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