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Pharo News of the Week 1 and 2 2025
by Marcus Denker Jan. 17, 2025

Jan. 17, 2025

The First week everyone was on holidays, 2025 thus starts with week 2. - [Video] Talk from UK Smalltalk users group: Maximiliano Tabacman: Electronic Roleplaying Assistant - 27 March 2024 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yIoTkXNU-Sc - [Blog Post] Comparing SUnit with RSpec https://all-objects-all-the-time.st/#/blog/posts/11 # The week on the Pharo Issue Tracker # Pharo 12 - [Backport to P12] Improve word-by-word text navigation + tests #17285 https://github.com/pharo-project/pharo/pull/17285 - Backport fix-SDL-default-renderer-by-platform #17579 https://github.com/pharo-project/pharo/pull/17579 - use Spec v1.3.4 #17574 https://github.com/pharo-project/pharo/pull/17574 - Move compiled method installation code from compile to install step #17469 https://github.com/pharo-project/pharo/pull/17469 # Fixes - Fix word jumping p12 #17584 https://github.com/pharo-project/pharo/pull/17584 - 17576-Invalid-comment-is-breaking-CommentTests #17577 https://github.com/pharo-project/pharo/pull/17577 - New cursor jumping #17476 https://github.com/pharo-project/pharo/pull/17476 - Add CompiledBlock>>#browse and BlockClosure>>#browse #17335 https://github.com/pharo-project/pharo/pull/17335 # Features - Fix 13825. Create a new sorter for the completion engine . #17473 https://github.com/pharo-project/pharo/pull/17473 # VM - Build on old linux server #898 https://github.com/pharo-project/pharo-vm/pull/898 - DojoVM 2025-01-07 #896 https://github.com/pharo-project/pharo-vm/pull/896 - fix C warnings related to self assignments #894 https://github.com/pharo-project/pharo-vm/pull/894 - Forward port 10 to 12 #893 https://github.com/pharo-project/pharo-vm/pull/893 - Fix some Slang tests #891 https://github.com/pharo-project/pharo-vm/pull/891 - Add a dumb isNotNil implementation (the same as notNil) #890 https://github.com/pharo-project/pharo-vm/pull/890 - PIC Cleanup #889 https://github.com/pharo-project/pharo-vm/pull/889 - normalize C variables #875 https://github.com/pharo-project/pharo-vm/pull/875 - Lots of cleanups #874 https://github.com/pharo-project/pharo-vm/pull/874 - Removing duplicated code #857 https://github.com/pharo-project/pharo-vm/pull/857 - Fix warning absolute value #782 https://github.com/pharo-project/pharo-vm/pull/782 # Spec - changes on SPPresenter for resizing windows #1693 https://github.com/pharo-spec/Spec/pull/1693 - use comprehensive option name #1691 https://github.com/pharo-spec/Spec/pull/1691 - A test that checks whether the elements stay within the window's dimensions after resizing. #1688 https://github.com/pharo-spec/Spec/pull/1688 - enhancement(tables): split formatting vs evaluation #1686 https://github.com/pharo-spec/Spec/pull/1686 - default "ok" button in dialogs needs to be set to "ok" #1685 https://github.com/pharo-spec/Spec/pull/1685 - SpPaginatorPageMorph and SpPaginatorSelectionMorph fixes for theme #1646 https://github.com/pharo-spec/Spec/pull/1646 # Compiler - Forward port 17469 to P13: Move compiled method installation code from compile to install step #17587 https://github.com/pharo-project/pharo/pull/17587 - Fix string parse literals #17571 https://github.com/pharo-project/pharo/pull/17571 - Symbol should not depend on AST (Fix dependency test) #17580 https://github.com/pharo-project/pharo/pull/17580 - 17569 deprecate setparse options #17570 https://github.com/pharo-project/pharo/pull/17570 - Pharo13: Adding simple comments to RBClass methods #17575 https://github.com/pharo-project/pharo/pull/17575

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Pharo News of the Week 52/2024
by Marcus Denker Jan. 17, 2025

Jan. 17, 2025

# Pharo News of the Week 52/2024 This is the changekog for the last week of 2024: # The week on the Pharo Issue Tracker # Fixes - Resolution for issue 17548 - Removed Network setting BlabEmail #17564 https://github.com/pharo-project/pharo/pull/17564 - Duplicate class refactoring #17558 https://github.com/pharo-project/pharo/pull/17558 - 17493-Dropping-a-fileout-raises-an-error #17533 https://github.com/pharo-project/pharo/pull/17533 - fix search of element in SpCollectionListModel. #1681 https://github.com/pharo-spec/Spec/pull/1681 # Enhancements - enhance(morphic drop-handler): Better management of drop handler #17562 https://github.com/pharo-project/pharo/pull/17562 - Update FFI generation code to not generate multiple time the same methods #17559 https://github.com/pharo-project/pharo/pull/17559 # VM - Fix linking of UnixOSProcessPlugin - Remove dead code #888 https://github.com/pharo-project/pharo-vm/pull/888 - Fix failing tests #887 https://github.com/pharo-project/pharo-vm/pull/887 - fixing-classTag-tests #886 https://github.com/pharo-project/pharo-vm/pull/886 - Cleaning #881 https://github.com/pharo-project/pharo-vm/pull/881 - Druid fix vm #880 https://github.com/pharo-project/pharo-vm/pull/880 # Iceberg - Branch: PrefilledCommit1852, Fixes # 1852 #1857 https://github.com/pharo-vcs/iceberg/pull/1857 # Cleanups - Cleanup scale factor methods #17555 https://github.com/pharo-project/pharo/pull/17555 - Remove users of asFileName #17561 https://github.com/pharo-project/pharo/pull/17561 - Remove unused code, user of asFileName #925 https://github.com/pharo-spec/NewTools/pull/925 - Fix SpDemoPresenter stupid uneecessary dependencies #1689 https://github.com/pharo-spec/Spec/pull/1689 - Better comment and removed unused instance variable #17560 https://github.com/pharo-project/pharo/pull/17560 # Compiler - Rename AST -> OC #17553 https://github.com/pharo-project/pharo/pull/17553 - P13: post AST to OC renaming #17566 https://github.com/pharo-project/pharo/pull/17566

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All UKSTUG presentations are now available on YouTube
by UK Smalltalk Jan. 8, 2025

Jan. 8, 2025

Hello, We have recently moved the recordings of the UKSTUG online presentations from Vimeo to YouTube. The recordings are now available at https://www.youtube.com/@UKSTUG . We are also looking for presenters for our 2025 online meetings. If you anything worth sharing, please let us know! Giovanni

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"Evaluation of SUnit" â New blog post on all: objects all: theTime
by Koen De Hondt Jan. 7, 2025

Jan. 7, 2025

Dear Pharo users and developers, I wrote a blog post in which I evaluate SUnit <https://all-objects-all-the-time.st/#/blog/posts/10>. Enjoy reading it! Ciao, Koen

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