May 2023 - Pharo-users - lists.pharo.org

[ANN] Hyperspace v4.2.0 [v4.2.0] released!
by Buenos Aires Smalltalk May 22, 2023

May 22, 2023

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String to URL Validation
by sean＠clipperadams.com May 19, 2023

May 19, 2023

How would I test whether a string is a valid absolute URL? At first, I thought to attempt a conversion and catch the error, but then I realized that invalid URLs donât always cause an error e.g. missing scheme and host return relative URLs with the entire string placed in the segments.

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This week (20/2023) on the Pharo Issue Tracker.
by Marcus Denker May 19, 2023

May 19, 2023

This week, we continued the work on Pharo12. #Fixes - Drop use of Paragraph from #drawOn: in ToggleWithSymbolMenuItemShortcut to fix menu item alignment #13764 https://github.com/pharo-project/pharo/pull/13764 - 13657-With-CleanBlocks-enabled-tests-fail-when-trying-to-Fuel-out-stack #13763 https://github.com/pharo-project/pharo/pull/13763 - Adjust icon and key text spacing in ToggleMenuItemMorph #13722 https://github.com/pharo-project/pharo/pull/13722 # Features - add object to represent the Native Window #13566 https://github.com/pharo-project/pharo/pull/13566 - Add menu items âIndentâ and âOutdentâ to the menu built through #menuOn: in RubSmalltalkCodeMode #13714 https://github.com/pharo-project/pharo/pull/13714 # Compiler - Remove Object bindingOf: and hasBindingOf: #13736 https://github.com/pharo-project/pharo/pull/13736 https://github.com/pharo-spec/Spec/pull/1392 - Compiler: remove #lookupVar:declare: #13737 https://github.com/pharo-project/pharo/pull/13737 https://github.com/pharo-spec/Spec/pull/1390 - 13723-Binding-for-variable-in-Playground-is-nil-after-assigning-a-number-to-it #13739 https://github.com/pharo-project/pharo/pull/13739 # Protocols - Method announcements should use real protocols #13730 https://github.com/pharo-project/pharo/pull/13730 - Clean the way to get the selectors in a protocol #13759 https://github.com/pharo-project/pharo/pull/13759 - Inline protocol removal from ClassOrganization #13753 https://github.com/pharo-project/pharo/pull/13753 - Diver cleanings around protocols #13749 https://github.com/pharo-project/pharo/pull/13749 - Inline ClassOrganization>>#removeElement: in ClassDescription #13748 https://github.com/pharo-project/pharo/pull/13748 - Implement ClassDescription>>#protocolNameOfSelector: #13728 https://github.com/pharo-project/pharo/pull/13728 - Move #protocolOfSelector: to ClassDescription #13711 https://github.com/pharo-project/pharo/pull/13711 - Improve removal of protocols and add tests #13692 https://github.com/pharo-project/pharo/pull/13692 # Refactoring Engine - Refactoring RBRefactoringWarning and RBRefactoringError #13367 https://github.com/pharo-project/pharo/pull/13367 # Cleanup - Update 01-loadMetacello.st: MetacelloPharoCommonPlatform #13762 https://github.com/pharo-project/pharo/pull/13762 - update-dependencies #13754 https://github.com/pharo-project/pharo/pull/13754 - 10069-Review-NullTextStyler #13752 https://github.com/pharo-project/pharo/pull/13752 - 12444-cleanup-todo-from-testClassSideInitializeMethodNeedsToBeInClassInitializationProtocol #13750 https://github.com/pharo-project/pharo/pull/13750 - Cleanup-MetacelloPharoPlatform #13738 https://github.com/pharo-project/pharo/pull/13738 https://github.com/pharo-project/pharo/pull/13747 https://github.com/pharo-project/pharo/pull/13716 - Move-isObservableSlot #13745 https://github.com/pharo-project/pharo/pull/13745 https://github.com/pharo-spec/Spec/pull/1393 - Add class comments to mocks #13743 https://github.com/pharo-project/pharo/pull/13743 - Class-Deprecate-classComment #13744 https://github.com/pharo-project/pharo/pull/13744 - Cleanup TheManifestBuilder #13742 https://github.com/pharo-project/pharo/pull/13742 - finally remove AbstractTool #13715 https://github.com/pharo-project/pharo/pull/13715 https://github.com/pharo-spec/NewTools/pull/523 - Remove dead code in session manager #13729 https://github.com/pharo-project/pharo/pull/13729 - Fix deprecated call #13710 https://github.com/pharo-project/pharo/pull/13710 - extract return from ifNilifNotNil in ChangeSorterModel #516 https://github.com/pharo-spec/NewTools/pull/516 - Do not listen to method recategorization in MessageBrowser #524 https://github.com/pharo-spec/NewTools/pull/524

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This week (19/2023) on the Pharo Issue Tracker
by Marcus Denker May 15, 2023

May 15, 2023

We released Pharo11 this week! see https://www.pharo.org/news/pharo11-released.html # Pharo 11 - Fix welcomebrowser version #13691 https://github.com/pharo-project/pharo/pull/13691 - Backport fixe #13663: Enabling the setting âShow lines numbers for all browsers #13665 https://github.com/pharo-project/pharo/pull/13665 - fix iceberg version for Pharo 11 #13655 https://github.com/pharo-project/pharo/pull/13655 - fix a bug with cmd+g usage #517 https://github.com/pharo-spec/NewTools/pull/517 - change spotter selection paste default #519 https://github.com/pharo-spec/NewTools/pull/519 # Pharo 12 ## Fixes - Improve some error logging #13689 https://github.com/pharo-project/pharo/pull/13689 - Enabling the setting âShow lines numbers for all browsersâ only shows line numbers for the first method selected in a class #13663 https://github.com/pharo-project/pharo/issues/13663 ## Variables - Allow-Slots-Shadow-PseudoVariables #13704 https://github.com/pharo-project/pharo/pull/13704 - Simplify ReservedVariable: #styleNameIn and remove #nameIsReserved: #13701 https://github.com/pharo-project/pharo/pull/13701 - ReservedVariable: No need for Singleton #13688 https://github.com/pharo-project/pharo/pull/13688 - Added thisProcess pseudovariable using existing bytecode. #13661 https://github.com/pharo-project/pharo/pull/13661 ## SystemOrganizer / RPackage - Remove dead code in RPackageOrganizer default instance #13660 https://github.com/pharo-project/pharo/pull/13660 - Reduces the references to RPackageOrganizer class>>default #13666 https://github.com/pharo-project/pharo/pull/13666 - Move system organizer to RPackage and remove references #13677 https://github.com/pharo-project/pharo/pull/13677 - Remove SystemOrganizer #13690 https://github.com/pharo-project/pharo/pull/13690 - Use Smalltalk organization in DependencyAnalyzer #13671 https://github.com/pharo-project/pharo/pull/13671 ## Protocols / Categories - Do not classify silently methods #13650 https://github.com/pharo-project/pharo/pull/13650 - Start protocol announcements testing + add feature to Announcer #13649 https://github.com/pharo-project/pharo/pull/13649 - Deprecate ProtocolRenamed #13659 https://github.com/pharo-project/pharo/pull/13659 - Small cleanup on protocol cleaning #13642 https://github.com/pharo-project/pharo/pull/13642 - Rename Protocol class>>#name: into #named: #13670 https://github.com/pharo-project/pharo/pull/13670 - Use real protocol in recategorization mecanism #13669 https://github.com/pharo-project/pharo/pull/13669 - Introduce ClassDescription>>#protocolNames and start using it #13658 https://github.com/pharo-project/pharo/pull/13658 - Add some tests on protocol announcements #13706 https://github.com/pharo-project/pharo/pull/13706 - Removal of nonexisting protocol should not announce anything #13702 https://github.com/pharo-project/pharo/pull/13702 ## Code Completion - Completion autoclose menu #13647 https://github.com/pharo-project/pharo/pull/13647 - Completion: improve completion on super #13679 https://github.com/pharo-project/pharo/pull/13679 - Completion: replacement put caret at the right place #13683 https://github.com/pharo-project/pharo/pull/13683 - Completion mini fixes #13696 https://github.com/pharo-project/pharo/pull/13696 - Basic type analysis for better completion #13687 https://github.com/pharo-project/pharo/pull/13687 - More type analysis #13697 https://github.com/pharo-project/pharo/pull/13697 - CompletionEngine do not automatically open empty completion menus #13705 https://github.com/pharo-project/pharo/pull/13705 - NECPreferences remove leftover of captureNavigationKeys #13703 https://github.com/pharo-project/pharo/pull/13703 - Completion: better update #13700 https://github.com/pharo-project/pharo/pull/13700 - Completion browse with Ctrl-B #13699 https://github.com/pharo-project/pharo/pull/13699 ## Cleanups - Clean some code using better condition branches #13668 https://github.com/pharo-project/pharo/pull/13668 - Remove some duplication in image cleaner #13676 https://github.com/pharo-project/pharo/pull/13676 - Message: rename ivar "args" to "arguments #13654 https://github.com/pharo-project/pharo/pull/13654 - Cleanup: Metacello-Platform #13682 https://github.com/pharo-project/pharo/pull/13682 - remove MetacelloPharo30Platform from 01-loadMetacello.st #13684 https://github.com/pharo-project/pharo/pull/13684 - Clean monticello class definition management #13680 https://github.com/pharo-project/pharo/pull/13680

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[ANN] Pharo 11 Released !
by Esteban Lorenzano May 13, 2023

May 13, 2023

Dear Pharo users and dynamic language lovers: We have released Pharo (https://pharo.org/) version 11! What is Pharo? Pharo is a pure object-oriented programming language and a powerful environment focused on simplicity and immediate feedback. Simple & powerful language: No constructors, no types declaration, no interfaces, no primitive types. Yet a powerful and elegant language with a full syntax fitting in one postcard! Pharo is objects and messages all the way down. Live, immersive environment: Immediate feedback at any moment of your development: Developing, testing, debugging. Even in production environments, you will never be stuck in compiling and deploying steps again! Amazing debugging experience: Pharo environment includes a debugger unlike anything you've seen before. It allows you to step through code, restart the execution of methods, create methods on the fly, and much more! Pharo is yours: Pharo is made by an incredible community, with more than 100 contributors for the last revision of the platform and hundreds of people constantly contributing with frameworks and libraries. Fully open-source: Pharo full stack is released under MIT (https://opensource.org/licenses/MIT) License and available on GitHub (https://github.com/pharo-project/pharo) ... more on the Pharo Features page (http://www.pharo.org/features) In this iteration of Pharo, we continue working on our objectives of improvement, clean-up and modularization. Also, we included a number of usability and speed improvements. A complete list of changes and improvements is available in our Changelog (https://github.com/pharo-project/pharo-changelogs/blob/master/Pharo110Chang…) Some highlights of this amazing version: Highlights Tools Iceberg (the git client/VCS control tool) has received a lot of tweaks and fixes to work better with GitHub and other Git services. Our debugger now incorporates lots of tweaks and notably the capability of adding bindings in the context interaction model. The is a new implementation of rewrite tools and improved refactoring support. There is a new tool: The Document Browser, which presents Microdown (markdown compatible) documents placed on the web or locally. New Tools presented in Calypso (the System Browser) and additional extended Inspectors. All versions of NewTools, Spec, Roassal and Microdown have been updated with their respective bug fixes and improvements. System Extended Full Blocks and Constant Clock closures support. Additional Inlining and optimizations Bug Fixes and Clean up. Ephemeron Finalization support. Virtual machine Ephemerons Production Ready. Initial support for Single-Instruction Multiple-Data (SIMD). Third-Party Dependency Update (Newer versions, Graphic Libraries using Hardware Acceleration). Clean Ups: Remove lots of old code, notably old experiments, and dead code. Development Effort This new version is the result of 1412 Pull Requests integrated just in the Pharo repository. We have closed 972 issues and received contributions from more than 70 different contributors. We have also a lot of work in the separate projects that are included in each Pharo release: http://github.com/pharo-spec/NewTools (https://github.com/pharo-spec/NewTools) http://github.com/pharo-spec/NewTools-DocumentBrowser (https://github.com/pharo-spec/NewTools-DocumentBrowser) http://github.com/pharo-spec/Spec (https://github.com/pharo-spec/Spec) http://github.com/pharo-vcs/Iceberg (https://github.com/pharo-vcs/Iceberg) http://github.com/ObjectProfile/Roassal3 (https://github.com/ObjectProfile/Roassal3) http://github.com/pillar-markup/Microdown (https://github.com/pillar-markup/Microdown) http://github.com/pillar-markup/BeautifulComments (https://github.com/pillar-markup/BeautifulComments) http://github.com/pharo-project/pharo-vm (https://github.com/pharo-project/pharo-vm) Contributors We always say Pharo is yours. It is yours because we made it for you, but most importantly because it is made by the invaluable contributions of our great community (yourself). A large community of people from all around the world contributed to Pharo 11.0 by making pull requests, reporting bugs, participating in discussion threads, providing feedback, and a lot of helpful tasks in all our community channels. Thank you all for your contributions. The Pharo Team Discover Pharo: https://pharo.org/features Try Pharo: http://pharo.org/download Learn Pharo: http://pharo.org/documentation

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[ANN] docker-pharo-runtime v11.0.0-2023-05-12 [v11.0.0 [2023-05-12]] released!
by Buenos Aires Smalltalk May 12, 2023

May 12, 2023

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Pharo contribution Jenkins end of service
by Christophe Demarey May 12, 2023

May 12, 2023

Hi all, Some years ago, we provided a Jenkins instance to check the health / quality of projects that are not in Pharo core but important for the community: https://ci.inria.fr/pharo-contribution/ <https://ci.inria.fr/pharo-contribution/> Since, we moved to GitHub and GitHub actions are mainly used to achieve the same goal. Therefore there is no more reason to keep this service. Thatâs why we decided to stop the Pharo contribution Jenkins on 12th June 2023. If you need to save some data (job artefacts, job setup), let us know. The server is now up but it has not been updated since a while and can stop working from time to time. On 12th June 2023, we will shutdown the server and all data will be removed. The Pharo team.

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Pharo being featured in Exercism's Mind Shifting May
by bajger＠gmail.com May 11, 2023

May 11, 2023

Hi there! Hi there! Pharo track will be promoted on Mind shifting May of Exercism initiative. Here are some details from one Exercism founder (Erik): \ \ https://forum.exercism.org/t/pharo-being-featured-in-mind-shifting-may/5420 There are couple of things we could improve here: \ where it is used: weâd definitely find better and newer examples that ATMs usecaseâ¦ where it is great: I would add productivity, once people get through initial learning curve. It is tightly connected to bullets below (image based approach and liveness and immersive env.) Features: embeddability and interoperability with othe PLs - working on minimal Pharo image that can be part of e.g. C program and vice versa. So if you have ideas, thoughts how this script can be improved, please reply!

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Packages
by Steffen MÃ¤rcker May 9, 2023

May 9, 2023

Hi, is there a way to create an empty package programatically, and how do I rename a package programmatically? Is there a documentation about packages and how exactly their naming scheme relates to tags? Kind regards, Steffen

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Porting from VW to Pharo
by Steffen MÃ¤rcker May 8, 2023

May 8, 2023

Hi! this topic pops up from time to time on the mailing list. I want to port a number of packages to Pharo. I remember "Shaping" asking this for porting PDFtalk. 1. Is the workflow still up to date or is there a new way of doing things? 2. From what I understand so far, I just need the following package from Store: - Smalltalk Transform Project 3. Is there a page that documents the process process in general? https://wiki.pdftalk.de/doku.php?id=setupvisualworks seems to be specific for PDFtalk like the thread on this list. Kind regards, Steffen

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