May 2024 - Pharo-users - lists.pharo.org

The System Browser has recently started showing 2 comments tabs - one is text and one is formatted pretty. That seems odd and is not wanted - has anyone else seen this? Pharo 10 stable image - windows 64 - all reloaded recently...
by mark.odonoghue.2010＠gmail.com May 12, 2024

May 12, 2024

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IWST Paper Submission Deadline is Approaching!
by Guillermo Polito May 10, 2024

May 10, 2024

Dear community, IWST invites everybody to submit full/short papers to be considered to be plublished in the IWST 2024 Proceedings. Papers can both be presented in the conference's IWST track and appear in proceedings independently of the initially submitted abstracts. Full/short paper submission deadline: May 19th, 2024 We are looking for papers of two kinds: - Short position papers (5 to 10 pages) describing fresh ideas and early results. - Full papers (more than 10 pages) with deeper description of experiments and of research results. Paper accepted for publishing will be published within a *CEUR-WS Proceedings>https://ceur-ws.org/*. Hence, both submissions and final papers must be prepared using the *CEUR ART style>https://ceur-ws.org/Vol-XXX/CEURART.zip*. We recommend to use the template in single column style, although you may use two colums. CEUR proceedings accepts papers in boths styles as soon as they follow the template and have 5 or more pages. The IWST team, Gordana, Guille and Steven https://esug.org/2024-Conference/IWST2024.html

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Re: [Esug-list] [ANN] Soil release v1
by Norbert Hartl May 8, 2024

May 8, 2024

> Am 06.05.2024 um 16:47 schrieb Dirk Nel <dirkockertnel(a)gmail.com>: > > I'll definitely check it out..! and for those who are not in the know... what inspired the name? :) - I like the word - It has only four letters which qualifies as a class prefix - To me as a non-native speaker it means: ground layer you can build/grow on Norbert > > On Wed, 24 Apr 2024 at 17:47, Tim Mackinnon <tim(a)testit.works> wrote: >> That's really exciting news... appreciate you sharing it with the wider community (I know when you mentioned its existence a while back I went and watched the Esug recordings to get more info, and looked at some of the extensive test cases to get a feel on what it looked like - its neat). >> >> Having multiple options for persisting data (from simple Fuel up to Soil and Glorp and Gemstone) is very useful. >> >> Tim >> >> On Wed, 24 Apr 2024, at 12:52 PM, Norbert Hartl wrote: >>> ...we said at last ESUG that there will be a release soonish but as usual it doesn't go that fast. >>> >>> But now we are very happy to announce that Soil has a first public release v1. So what is soil? >>> >>> Soil is an object oriented database in pharo <http://pharo.org/>. It is transaction based having ACID transactions. It has binary search capabilities with SkipList and BTree+ indexes. It aims to be a simple yet powerful database making it easy to develop with, easy to debug with, easy to inspect, ... >>> >>> More details at https://github.com/ApptiveGrid/Soil >>> >>> This release is still considered early stage because >>> >>> although in ApptiveGrid there are over 4000 instances of it and there are other users there isn't a wider range of use cases, yet. So it is not fully battle tested. This just as reminder when you start compaining I need somewhere to point my finger to and say "I told you!" ;) >>> there are few things missing that you might expect like garbage collection, etc. >>> >>> So but it is definetely usable and awaiting the brave ones of you to try. >>> >>> Hopy you enjoy it! >>> >>> Norbert & Marcus >>> _______________________________________________ >>> Esug-list mailing list -- esug-list(a)lists.esug.org <mailto:esug-list@lists.esug.org> >>> To unsubscribe send an email to esug-list-leave(a)lists.esug.org <mailto:esug-list-leave@lists.esug.org> >>> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Esug-list mailing list -- esug-list(a)lists.esug.org <mailto:esug-list@lists.esug.org> >> To unsubscribe send an email to esug-list-leave(a)lists.esug.org <mailto:esug-list-leave@lists.esug.org>

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[ANN] Pharo 12 Release !
by Esteban Lorenzano May 8, 2024

May 8, 2024

Dear Pharo users and dynamic language lovers: We have released Pharo <https://pharo.org/> version 12! 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/Pharo120Chang…> Some highlights of this amazing version: Highlights New breakpoint system The debug point system is a breakpoint model that supersedes the previous implementation of breakpoints and watchpoints. They are configurable, composable, and extensible. The traditional breakpoints remain available, including conditional breakpoints, one-time breakpoints, and object-centric breakpoints. Additionally, there are new types of breakpoints, such as chained-breakpoints, which condition the activation of certain breakpoints on the triggering of others (e.g., breakpoint B only activates if breakpoint A is hit first). Debug points also feature a dedicated browser and integration options. Tools * Scalable fluid class syntax is now the default one * Preparing the introduction of the Bloc graphic system by migrating more tools to Spec2 widgets * Spec2 UI framework enhancements to support GTK 4 * Leaner version of the Metacello package manager * More robust and strict mode for FFI System * New architecture for refactorings and domain specific transformations * Code loading speed improvement * Fast browsing via fully optimized package tags * Optmized memory usage via optimized method protocols * Compiler simplifications and improvements Virtual machine * Massive image support with permanent space * String/ByteArray comparison speed up Development Effort This new version is the result of 1895 Pull Requests integrated just in the Pharo repository. We have closed 865 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 12.0 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 <https://pharo.org/download> Learn Pharo: http://pharo.org/documentation <https://pharo.org/documentation>

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"Atlas is a Spec application" â New blog post on all: objects all: theTime
by Koen De Hondt May 6, 2024

May 6, 2024

Dear Pharo users and developers, I added the next blog post <https://all-objects-all-the-time.st/#/blog/posts/8> to the series on Atlas, a new browser for Pharo. It describes the relationship between Atlas and Spec, the UI framework of Pharo. The blog post introduces the basic building blocks of the Atlas UI. It also explains the struggle with some aspects of Spec and the Morphic backend. Happy reading! Ciao, Koen

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This week (18/2024) on the Pharo Issue Tracker
by Marcus Denker May 3, 2024

May 3, 2024

With Pharo12 being released, we started to merge more changes in Pharo13. # Pharo12 - Pharo12: ProcessorScheduler>>#activeProcess added no instrumentation pragma #16557 https://github.com/pharo-project/pharo/pull/16557 - Add Toplo world menu entry (part 2) #16478 https://github.com/pharo-project/pharo/pull/16478 # Graphics - Change default value for setting #autoSetCanvasScaleFactor to true #16529 https://github.com/pharo-project/pharo/pull/16529 - missing stroke paint method #16531 https://github.com/pharo-project/pharo/pull/16531 - Change #shrinkTo: on FreeTypeCache to selectively remove entries rather than all of them #16419 https://github.com/pharo-project/pharo/pull/16419 # Bugs - ExteranlAddress>>fromString: converts string to UTF-8 first #16560 https://github.com/pharo-project/pharo/pull/16560 - ProcessorScheduler>>#activeProcess added no instrumentation pragma #16551 https://github.com/pharo-project/pharo/pull/16551 # Refactoring Engine - Refactoring of the RefactoryChange manager #16526 https://github.com/pharo-project/pharo/pull/16526 - Composite extract method refactoring #16525 https://github.com/pharo-project/pharo/pull/16525 # Speed - Announcer: Return early if there isn't any subscriber #16336 https://github.com/pharo-project/pharo/pull/16336 # Cleanup / Misc - New pass at removing SystemAnnouncer references #16518 https://github.com/pharo-project/pharo/pull/16518 - update with latest changes from Pharo12 #16523 https://github.com/pharo-project/pharo/pull/16523 - remove interactionState: #16559 https://github.com/pharo-project/pharo/pull/16559 - the tests use #category: from the package Deprecated12 #743 https://github.com/pharo-spec/NewTools/pull/743 # Tests - add tests for testDoWhileFalse: and testDoWhileTrue: #16532 https://github.com/pharo-project/pharo/pull/16532 - 5 test for rules #16524 https://github.com/pharo-project/pharo/pull/16524

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