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Pharo on Bluesky and Mastodon
by Marcus Denker Feb. 20, 2025

Feb. 20, 2025

Hello, Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/pharoproject.bsky.social We are on Mastodon, too (since 2018!) https://mastodon.social/@pharoproject Marcus

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"Book release: Application Building with Spec 2.0" â New blog post on all: objects all: theTime
by Koen De Hondt Feb. 13, 2025

Feb. 13, 2025

Dear Pharo users and developers, It required an enormous effort to review, rewrite, and extend it, but I am happy to announce that it is finally here: the book on application building in Pharo with Spec 2.0. I wrote a blog post about it <https://all-objects-all-the-time.st/#/blog/posts/9>. Happy reading! Ciao, Koen

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Pharo News of the Week 06/2025
by Marcus Denker Feb. 7, 2025

Feb. 7, 2025

# Pharo News of the Week 06/2025 - [ANN] GSoC 2025 Mentors/Topics needed: https://www.pharo.org/news/2025-01-30-GSOC2025.html - [ANN] We are now on bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/pharoproject.bsky.social - [ANN] and of course mastodon since a long time: https://mastodon.social/@pharoproject If you want to add your news to this list, use this form: https://tinyurl.com/4c89buy4 # The week on the Pharo Issue Tracker # Pharo 11 - Update version in #documentBrowser for BaselineOfPharo for Pharo 11 to âv1.0.4â #17766 https://github.com/pharo-project/pharo/pull/17766 # Pharo 12 - Backport changes to not restore ffi methods if they are not installed #17780 https://github.com/pharo-project/pharo/pull/17780 # Fixes - Fix opening of the Dependency analyzer #17763 https://github.com/pharo-project/pharo/pull/17763 - Fix browsing of methods in Epicea #17764 https://github.com/pharo-project/pharo/pull/17764 - Do not resume running process #17777 https://github.com/pharo-project/pharo/pull/17777 - Fixing browse in KMDescriptionPresenter #17776 https://github.com/pharo-project/pharo/pull/17776 - Fix cursor navigation #17772 https://github.com/pharo-project/pharo/pull/17772 - Fix save image dialog default values #17767 https://github.com/pharo-project/pharo/pull/17767 - 17563-propertyAtput-looks-bogus, #17754 https://github.com/pharo-project/pharo/pull/17754 # Features - Addition of new setting for using SpClosedWindowListPresenter or not #17757 https://github.com/pharo-project/pharo/pull/17757 # Code Completion - Branch: addingSetterToCoHeuristic #17782 https://github.com/pharo-project/pharo/pull/17782 # VM - Remove debugging code #911 https://github.com/pharo-project/pharo-vm/pull/911 - Simplify signal handler space calculation: use SIGSTKSZ, posix defined #910 https://github.com/pharo-project/pharo-vm/pull/910 # Newtools - changed menu bug display and updated baseline #970 https://github.com/pharo-spec/NewTools/pull/970 - Update world menu entry for the finder #982 https://github.com/pharo-spec/NewTools/pull/982 - Fix selection in save file presenter #980 https://github.com/pharo-spec/NewTools/pull/980 - Unsubscribe if user dont want to use the presenter anymore #977 https://github.com/pharo-spec/NewTools/pull/977 - Started to pass the stApplication in the open method #976 https://github.com/pharo-spec/NewTools/pull/976 - Moved IRMethod extension to OCIRMethod #975 https://github.com/pharo-spec/NewTools/pull/975 - Memory leak fix #972 https://github.com/pharo-spec/NewTools/pull/972 - adds property to morph when closed and remove it when unhidden #971 https://github.com/pharo-spec/NewTools/pull/971 # Tests - Skipping two tests to get the green bar for now. #17743 https://github.com/pharo-project/pharo/pull/17743 - Fix and improve WindowAnnouncementTest #17773 https://github.com/pharo-project/pharo/pull/17773 - Fix testMethodsOfTheClassShouldNotBeRepeatedInItsSuperclasses #17769 https://github.com/pharo-project/pharo/pull/17769 # Website - Update community.md: add bluesky link #84 https://github.com/pharo-project/pharo-website/pull/84 # Cleanups - Branch: 17675-Opal-Extension-symbolic-to-Debugging-Core #17735 https://github.com/pharo-project/pharo/pull/17735 - Branch: 17672-Rename-formatter-in-EFtests-to-avoid-spurious-sender-clash #17736 https://github.com/pharo-project/pharo/pull/17736 - Remove String>>isValidSelector #17741 https://github.com/pharo-project/pharo/pull/17741 - 17746-remove-ClassdeprecationRefactorings, Fixes #17746 #17747 https://github.com/pharo-project/pharo/pull/17747 - 17742-isSelectorSymbol-should-be-renamed-isUsedAsSelectorSymbol #17748 https://github.com/pharo-project/pharo/pull/17748 - 17667-remove-display-of-empty-sharedVariables-from-class-default-tempâ¦ #17749 https://github.com/pharo-project/pharo/pull/17749 - Branch: 17750-FormasText-from-MD-to-Form, #17751 https://github.com/pharo-project/pharo/pull/17751 - Branch: FixKMLeftInstanceVariable, #17758 https://github.com/pharo-project/pharo/pull/17758 - Removed Stuff linked to the presenter #17761 https://github.com/pharo-project/pharo/pull/17761 - Clean tool registry2 #17765 https://github.com/pharo-project/pharo/pull/17765

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Pharo Association 2024 Review
by tesonep＠gmail.com Feb. 5, 2025

Feb. 5, 2025

Dear Pharo Association members, Pharoers and Smalltalkers from all over the world We are writing you to thank you again for your support of the Pharo Association. With your help, we are able to perform a lot of activities to increase the impact of Pharo, enlarge its community and have a better programming life for everyone. For the people who are not members of the association, we take the opportunity to tell you all the accomplishments of the association last year and invite you to participate in any of the forms our association provides. We want to profit this time of the year to tell you the most important actions that the association has supported the last years. - *Infrastructure for Pharo: *as an association, we support the maintenance of the infrastructure used by Pharo. We provided the funds for the hosting of Pharo services (website, file server, mailing lists) and domains. Most of the services that we daily use are supported by your help. Thanks for allowing the community to use the Pharo Launcher or getting an image from ZeroConf. - *Conference Sponsoring:* we all love to go to nice conferences and much more if there is Pharo-related content on it. This year as it is tradition we supported the *ESUG 2024 *conference. Having a place to interchange and to publish all the advances in Pharo is key to its development. - *Summer School: *With the objective of extending the Pharo community, in 2024, we sponsored a summer school at Split, Croatia about advanced object-oriented design with Pharo. Due to the nice reception and results, this year we are again sponsoring a summer school in February at Montpellier. - *Pharo Music: *Smalltalk has been always a language close to the arts, and Pharo is not an exception. This year, we heavily sponsored the development of Phausto, Coypu and CoypuIDE. *Phausto <https://github.com/lucretiomsp/phausto>* is a library and API that allows to use the FAUST compiler and its libraries (Functional Audio Stream) inside Pharo. *Coypu <https://github.com/lucretiomsp/Coypu>* is a package with methods and classes for Pharo designed for programming music on-the-fly, and it has its *IDE <https://github.com/pharo-graphics/CoypuIDE>* developed in Bloc. This tools has been presented in numerous technical and musical conferences, and in all of them they have generated a lot of attention and interest. We are much than happy with the results we are obtaining. - *Student Sponsoring:* we sponsored the access of students using Pharo to Summer Schools and visits to labs. We sponsored also the food and drinks of small meetings where students can learn and play with Pharo. This sponsoring is particularly important because often the labs are not allowed to pay trips of students, limiting the access to international students. Because of that, we sponsored students from Argentina (2), Serbia, Madagascar (3), Chile, and Bolivia. Without your support we would not be able to plant Pharo seeds all over the world. Your help is base to increase the community and to help all the people interested in Pharo. - *Book Sponsoring: *During last year, we have sponsored the write of 4 new books about Pharo. These books covers subjects for newcomers and experts, going from the style of code, testing and UI creation. All the books are available to the community (*https://books.pharo.org/ <https://books.pharo.org/>*) and even you can get a physical copy. We consider that we need to provide the material to let all the people interested to grow in their Pharo experience. We want to thank you again for your support as all the support we are getting are from our members. We remember you that you can renew or increase your subscription at *https://association.pharo.org <https://association.pharo.org/>*. Your support is really important for us because it enables us to do actions that would be almost impossible to do. Finally we remember you that we are always open to listen your opinions and suggestions, and to receive requests for sponsoring or support at *association(a)pharo.org <association(a)pharo.org>*. Sorry if you have got this mails from different channels. Thank you so much again, and we desired you and excellent new year! *Pharo Association*

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"Subject in SUnit Tests" â New blog post on all: objects all: theTime
by Koen De Hondt Feb. 4, 2025

Feb. 4, 2025

Dear Pharo users and developers, In my series of blog posts on testing, I added a follow-up post <https://all-objects-all-the-time.st/#/blog/posts/12> about a dedicated name for the object under test in SUnit tests, the âsubject". Happy reading! Ciao, Koen

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About String and Symbol equality
by stephane ducasse Feb. 4, 2025

Feb. 4, 2025

Hello people In Pharo (following Squeak tradition) a string is equals to its symbol representation. e.g. âtintinâ = #tintin > true In other Smalltalk dialects this is not the case. We have been working (sponsored by Lifeware) to support both semantics (yes this is a kind of daunting task and it can raise bugs). Our objective is to help people make business with Pharo. So âsimpleâ cross compatibility is something that we consider e.g. to deploy applications in Gemstone for example. (We would love to have a Pharo compiler working on Gemstone generating Gemstone VM bytecodes this is why we love the work of James Foster but this is another story). So since we are pragmatic people we could be convinced that the semantics of Pharo is not good :) and that by default we should use the semantics of GS or VW. The first step is to be able to choose which one to use within Pharo and be able to switch. We are nearly there for Pharo 13. The second step is to get a nice default. And we need the help of the community for this. Do you have any advice, arguments for and against any of the two choices that could be put on the table to influence our decisions for Pharo 14. So let us know :) Stef on the behalf of the Pharo consortium. StÃ©phane Ducasse http://stephane.ducasse.free.fr 06 30 93 66 73 "If you knew today was your last day on earth, what would you do differently? ....ESPECIALLY if, by doing something different, today might not be your last day on earth.â Calvin & Hobbes

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Pharo News of the Week 05/2025
by Marcus Denker Jan. 31, 2025

Jan. 31, 2025

# Pharo News of the Week 05/2025 - [Video] Tp33 first pattern programming: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EwPuypfRQTg - [ANN] Google Summer of Code 2025: Call for Students https://gsoc.pharo.org If you want to add your news to this list, use this form: https://tinyurl.com/4c89buy4 # The week on the Pharo Issue Tracker # Pharo 11 - Backport fix-SDL-default-renderer-by-platform to Pharo 11 #17696 https://github.com/pharo-project/pharo/pull/17696 # Pharo 12 - Backport correction evaluation of dynamic variables from the debugger #956 - Backport correction evaluation of dynamic variables from the debugger #956 https://github.com/pharo-spec/NewTools/pull/956 - Update version in #newTools for BaselineOfPharo for Pharo 12 to âv0.9.2â #17691 https://github.com/pharo-project/pharo/pull/17691 # Fixes - Do not restore ffi methods if they are not installed #17686 https://github.com/pharo-project/pharo/pull/17686 - Fix broken Pharo image #17712 https://github.com/pharo-project/pharo/pull/17712 - Bring back 'Fit all' menu item #17709 https://github.com/pharo-project/pharo/pull/17709 - Fixes: 17680 RB-Rename-class-from-in-text-editor-select-the-class-of-â¦ #17681 https://github.com/pharo-project/pharo/pull/17681 - 17677 pharo syntax tutorial testtest divide two by zero signals zero divide #17679 https://github.com/pharo-project/pharo/pull/17679 # Rules - Edited two rules to implement that #initializeWindow: has to call super and can't override preferredExtent #17695 https://github.com/pharo-project/pharo/pull/17695 - Refactoring Engine https://github.com/pharo-project/pharo/pull/17654 # Window Handling - Migrate about window to Spec #17708 https://github.com/pharo-project/pharo/pull/17708 - Cleaning window title #17711 https://github.com/pharo-project/pharo/pull/17711 # VM - Forward port 10.3.3 to pharo-12 branch #903 https://github.com/pharo-project/pharo-vm/pull/903 - Improve project structure #904 https://github.com/pharo-project/pharo-vm/pull/904 # Iceberg / Git - Cleaning Spec #1885 https://github.com/pharo-vcs/iceberg/pull/1885 - Removing dead code #1890 https://github.com/pharo-vcs/iceberg/pull/1890 - Fix IceTipCommitBrowser to have a cleaner initialization of the model #1888 https://github.com/pharo-vcs/iceberg/pull/1888 - Clean protocols #1886 https://github.com/pharo-vcs/iceberg/pull/1886 - Improve protocols #89 https://github.com/pharo-vcs/libgit2-pharo-bindings/pull/89 # Newtools - SpClosedWindowPresenter don't add itself in last closed window now #969 https://github.com/pharo-spec/NewTools/pull/969 - No glamorous icon names #968 https://github.com/pharo-spec/NewTools/pull/968 - No glamorous icon names #967 https://github.com/pharo-spec/NewTools/pull/967 - Cleaning title definition #966 https://github.com/pharo-spec/NewTools/pull/966 - Introduce a new About Pharo based on Spec instead of Morphic #965 https://github.com/pharo-spec/NewTools/pull/965 - Categorize an uncategorized method #964 https://github.com/pharo-spec/NewTools/pull/964 - Closed window is now independent and works with Announcements #963 https://github.com/pharo-spec/NewTools/pull/963 - Post cleaning fix2 #962 https://github.com/pharo-spec/NewTools/pull/962 - Post cleaning fixes #961 https://github.com/pharo-spec/NewTools/pull/961 - On the class side of course #960 https://github.com/pharo-spec/NewTools/pull/960 - Fixing the build I hope #959 https://github.com/pharo-spec/NewTools/pull/959 - Cleaning spec #957 https://github.com/pharo-spec/NewTools/pull/957 # Cleanup - Cleaning spec #1709 https://github.com/pharo-spec/Spec/pull/1709 - Cleaning title definition #1711 https://github.com/pharo-spec/Spec/pull/1711 - Cleaning SpMorphic: less duplication around centered #1712 https://github.com/pharo-spec/Spec/pull/1712 - Branch: automatebenchresult, Adding the timing to the benchmarks , aâ¦ #17622 https://github.com/pharo-project/pharo/pull/17622 - Cleanup compiler extensions. #17662 https://github.com/pharo-project/pharo/pull/17662 - AST-Core-Tests should not depend on Monticello #17665 https://github.com/pharo-project/pharo/pull/17665 - Branch: RedoingClosePresenter, Deleted everything so SpClosedWindowListPresenter can be independant #17676 https://github.com/pharo-project/pharo/pull/17676 - Move (OC)DoItVariable to the compiler #17678 https://github.com/pharo-project/pharo/pull/17678 - Cleaning Presenter #17683 https://github.com/pharo-project/pharo/pull/17683 - Post clean fix2 #17693 https://github.com/pharo-project/pharo/pull/17693 - Reintroducing test methods in a way that they are not counted as simiâ¦ #17694 https://github.com/pharo-project/pharo/pull/17694 - Reduce usage of protocol initialize-release #17701 https://github.com/pharo-project/pharo/pull/17701 - Cleanup refactorings #17700 https://github.com/pharo-project/pharo/pull/17700 - Depends on Roassal branch Pharo13 #17705 https://github.com/pharo-project/pharo/pull/17705 - Removed the undeclared for now. #17706 https://github.com/pharo-project/pharo/pull/17706 - Cleanup Tests #17710 https://github.com/pharo-project/pharo/pull/17710

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Google Summer of Code 2025
by Sebastian Jordan Jan. 29, 2025

Jan. 29, 2025

Hello people, We are applying for the GSoC (Google Sumer of Code) this year (again)! Info: https://summerofcode.withgoogle.com/ TLDR: It is an initiative from Google for student/beginner coders to contribute to open-source projects. There are Organizations that propose projects (like us), Google selects some of them, and then the people can read the proposals and apply for them. If they are selected and everything goes ok, Google pays to the student (for his/her work) and to the Organization (for mentoring them). To be selected, we need a good list of ideas/projects where outside people can contribute. We have these from the last year: https://gsoc.pharo.org/ideas. So, Iâm sending this to please ask you: 1. If there is any idea listed where you are supervisor (you can use the filter) -> Check if it is still valid 2. If there is no, you can think of one :) 3. Any change (update of one existing idea, delete or add one) must be done in this JSON: https://github.com/pharo-project/pharo-gsoc/blob/master/data/ideas.json You can: - Send directly a Pull Request with the changes to the repo (https://github.com/pharo-project/pharo-gsoc) ð - Or send us the updated JSON, and weâll push it ð Remember that the mentors of any idea have to be available for: - Response to the student applications - Supervise their work (probably some kind of interactions weekly) It is better to be 2, 3, or 4 mentors per idea so we can guarantee availability. The deadlines (https://developers.google.com/open-source/gsoc/timeline) are: * February 11 - to make the list of ideas * February 27 - Google lists the accepted Organizations * March 24 to April 8 - students apply to projects * June / July / August - CODING More info: https://developers.google.com/open-source/gsoc/resources/guide Thank you all! GSoC organizers from the Pharo Consortium

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UK Smalltalk User Group meeting: 2024 retrospective and what to expect in 2025 - 29 January 2025
by UK Smalltalk Jan. 28, 2025

Jan. 28, 2025

For our first meeting of the year, we'll hold a retrospective on what has happened in the Smalltalk world in 2024, and discuss what we can expect in 2025. Join us to share what you learned, and what you are looking forward to! This will be an online meeting from home. If you'd like to join us, please sign up in advance on the meeting's Meetup page ( https://www.meetup.com/ukstug/events/305378616/ ) to receive the meeting details. Donât forget to bring your laptop and drinks!

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Pharo News of the Week 04/2025
by Marcus Denker Jan. 27, 2025

Jan. 27, 2025

# Pharo News of the Week 04/2025 - [ANN] New VM Release v10.3.3 https://www.pharo.org/news/2025-01-21-VM10-3-3.html - [Blog Post]: Subject in SUnit Tests https://all-objects-all-the-time.st/#/blog/posts/ - [Survey] please take a second to take the spotter survey: https://sondages.inria.fr/index.php/319877?lang=en If you want to add your news to this list, use this form: https://tinyurl.com/4c89buy4 # The week on the Pharo Issue Tracker # Pharo 11 - Update version in #iceberg for BaselineOfPharo for Pharo 11 to âv2.2.3â #17644 https://github.com/pharo-project/pharo/pull/17644 # Pharo 12 - Update version in #newTools for BaselineOfPharo for Pharo 12 to âv0.9.1â #17666 https://github.com/pharo-project/pharo/pull/17666 - Update version in #spec for BaselineOfPharo for Pharo 12 to âv1.3.5â #17643 https://github.com/pharo-project/pharo/pull/17643 # Features - Update Fuel for Pharo 13 #17635 https://github.com/pharo-project/pharo/pull/17635 # Fixes - Fixed fall back code on new tenured primitives by jordanmontt Â· Pull Request #17617 Â· pharo-project/pharo https://github.com/pharo-project/pharo/pull/17617 - Calypso: Fix remove protocol when there is no method in the protocol #17628 https://github.com/pharo-project/pharo/pull/17628 - Branch: realunclosewindow, added all behaviors needed to use SpClosedWindowListPresebter #17629 https://github.com/pharo-project/pharo/pull/17629 - Update word navigation to handle different character groups #17630 https://github.com/pharo-project/pharo/pull/17630 - Fix timestamp parsing in SourceFileArray #17633 https://github.com/pharo-project/pharo/pull/17633 # VM - Remove old versions of libgit in new builds #902 https://github.com/pharo-project/pharo-vm/pull/902 # Compiler - Move OpalCompiler-UI tests to OpalCompiler-UI-Tests #17664 https://github.com/pharo-project/pharo/pull/17664 - Move OCBytecodeDecompilerExamplesTest to Flashback #17663 https://github.com/pharo-project/pharo/pull/17663 # Iceberg /Tonel /git - Port Hernan's snapshot browser to Iceberg #1875 https://github.com/pharo-vcs/iceberg/pull/1875 - Improve error messages #123 https://github.com/pharo-vcs/tonel/pull/123 # CI/Bootrap/Image load - Load roassal before NewTool https://github.com/pharo-project/pharo/pull/17650 - Remove double loading of welcome browser #17655 https://github.com/pharo-project/pharo/pull/17655 - Load Microdown before NewTools (Anyway NewTools will load it) #17652 https://github.com/pharo-project/pharo/pull/17652 # Newtools - Branch: Pharo13, renamed it to presenter and cleaned the class #941 https://github.com/pharo-spec/NewTools/pull/941 - Merge ColorPicker in NewTools #954 https://github.com/pharo-spec/NewTools/pull/954 - Fix Code Rewriter to take care of the context's application #953 https://github.com/pharo-spec/NewTools/pull/953 - Remove method with equivalent in traits #952 https://github.com/pharo-spec/NewTools/pull/952 - Integrate Welcome Browser into NewTools by jecisc Â· Pull Request #951 Â· pharo-spec/NewTools https://github.com/pharo-spec/NewTools/pull/951 - Branch: Making Playground Memorizing its Size #949 https://github.com/pharo-spec/NewTools/pull/949 - Branch: FixingLastInitialExtentForWindow #948 https://github.com/pharo-spec/NewTools/pull/948 - Branch: 946-StFinder-produces-DNU-on-browse, Fixes: #964 #947 https://github.com/pharo-spec/NewTools/pull/947 - Add drag&drop support to inspectors #945 https://github.com/pharo-spec/NewTools/pull/945 # Spec - Allow passwords in SpRequestDialog, Fixes #1705 #1706 https://github.com/pharo-spec/Spec/pull/1706 - fix: make Fuel serialization work with native collections #1704 https://github.com/pharo-spec/Spec/pull/1704 - P13: Introduce metadata and properties support in SpAbstractPresenterâ¦ #1701 https://github.com/pharo-spec/Spec/pull/1701 # Cleanup - Remove dead code #17632 https://github.com/pharo-project/pharo/pull/17632 - Moving ColorPicker extension to the extended class. #17637 https://github.com/pharo-project/pharo/pull/17637 - Remove the refresh because we should not have a dependency from Morphâ¦ #17638 https://github.com/pharo-project/pharo/pull/17638 - Branch: MakingDrTestMemorizingSize. #17649 https://github.com/pharo-project/pharo/pull/17649 - Remove Morphic MCSnapshotBrowser #17659 https://github.com/pharo-project/pharo/pull/17659 - Remove dead code #17658 https://github.com/pharo-project/pharo/pull/17658 - Doing a pass on ProfStef. #17653 https://github.com/pharo-project/pharo/pull/17653 # Website - Update Companies.md: new form links #82 https://github.com/pharo-project/pharo-website/pull/82

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