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Re: installation of Pharo on a Linux/ubuntu laptop

by RenePaulMages

Le 15/09/2025 Ã 14:50, Noury Bouraqadi a Ã©critÂ : > Salut RenÃ©, > > It's been a while since I installed Pharo on a Linux machine. > But, from what I understand, the last step is to unpack the tar > > tar vxf pharo-launcher-linux.tar A great thank you dear Noury : tar is effectively the ad hoc command to start the pharo-launcher. > Then, you'll be able to start the Pharo Launcher, that allows creating and > managing your images and VMs. > > May the Smalltalk force be with you ;-) > Noury -- All the best Rene Paul Mages (ramix) GnuPG : 0x9840A6F7 https://wiki.linux-azur.org/?PagePHARO https://renemages.wordpress.com/smalltalk/pharo https://sites.google.com/view/les-logiciels-libres/pharo

Sept. 15, 2025

Re: installation of Pharo on a Linux/ubuntu laptop

by Noury Bouraqadi

Salut RenÃ©, It's been a while since I installed Pharo on a Linux machine. But, from what I understand, the last step is to unpack the tar tar vxf pharo-launcher-linux.tar Then, you'll be able to start the Pharo Launcher, that allows creating and managing your images and VMs. May the Smalltalk force be with you ;-) Noury On Mon, Sep 15, 2025 at 1:27â¯PM RenePaulMages via Pharo-users < pharo-users(a)lists.pharo.org> wrote: > > > Le 15/09/2025 Ã 11:16, RenePaulMages via Pharo-users a Ã©crit : > > Hello, > > > > My laptop is running Ubuntu 24.04 : > > > > https://doc.ubuntu-fr.org/noble > > > > After the download step : > > > > https://files.pharo.org/pharo-launcher/linux64 > > > > I am stuck with the following file : > > > > PharoLauncher-linux-3.4.1-x64.zip > > From this unzip point I am ~lost~ : > > rmages@lenovo:~/Pharo$ unzip ./PharoLauncher-linux-3.4.1-x64.zip > Archive: ./PharoLauncher-linux-3.4.1-x64.zip > creating: artifacts/PharoLauncher-linux-3.4.1-x64/ > inflating: > artifacts/PharoLauncher-linux-3.4.1-x64/pharo-launcher-linux.tar > > -- > All the best > Rene Paul Mages (ramix) GnuPG : 0x9840A6F7 > https://wiki.linux-azur.org/?PagePHARO > https://renemages.wordpress.com/smalltalk/pharo > https://sites.google.com/view/les-logiciels-libres/pharo > > > -- Noury Bouraqadi

Sept. 15, 2025

Re: installation of Pharo on a Linux/ubuntu laptop

by RenePaulMages

Le 15/09/2025 Ã 11:16, RenePaulMages via Pharo-users a Ã©critÂ : > Hello, > > My laptop is running Ubuntu 24.04 : > > https://doc.ubuntu-fr.org/noble > > Â Â Â After the download step : > > https://files.pharo.org/pharo-launcher/linux64 > > Â Â Â I am stuck with the following file : > > PharoLauncher-linux-3.4.1-x64.zip From this unzip point I am ~lost~ : rmages@lenovo:~/Pharo$ unzip ./PharoLauncher-linux-3.4.1-x64.zip Archive: ./PharoLauncher-linux-3.4.1-x64.zip creating: artifacts/PharoLauncher-linux-3.4.1-x64/ inflating: artifacts/PharoLauncher-linux-3.4.1-x64/pharo-launcher-linux.tar -- All the best Rene Paul Mages (ramix) GnuPG : 0x9840A6F7 https://wiki.linux-azur.org/?PagePHARO https://renemages.wordpress.com/smalltalk/pharo https://sites.google.com/view/les-logiciels-libres/pharo

Sept. 15, 2025

installation of Pharo on a Linux/ubuntu laptop

by RenePaulMages

Hello, My laptop is running Ubuntu 24.04 : https://doc.ubuntu-fr.org/noble After the download step : https://files.pharo.org/pharo-launcher/linux64 I am stuck with the following file : PharoLauncher-linux-3.4.1-x64.zip -- Thanks for your help Rene Paul Mages (ramix) GnuPG : 0x9840A6F7 https://wiki.linux-azur.org/?PagePHARO https://renemages.wordpress.com/smalltalk/pharo https://sites.google.com/view/les-logiciels-libres/pharo

Sept. 15, 2025

Pharo News of the Week 37/2025

by Marcus Denker

# Pharo News of the Week 37/2025 - [ANN] Live Coding and Djselecta with Lucretio + Coypu 18/09/2025 https://pharo.org/news/2025-09-12-Concert-Coypu.html - [ANN] Pharo Consortium New Academic Member EMIT University of Fianarantsoa https://pharo.org/news/2025-09-11-Consortium-emit.html - [ANN] Fondation UniversitÃ© de Lille: Pharo selected as supported project for the Call 2024: https://fondation.univ-lille.fr/projets/les-projets-en-cours/soutenir-les-e… - SJsonPath is a Smalltalk library that provides a fluent API for creating JsonPath expression strings https://github.com/mumez/SJsonPath If you want to add your news to this list, use this form: https://tinyurl.com/4c89buy4 # The week on the Pharo Issue Tracker # Fixes - Update POP3Client.class.st, use allButFirst #18523 https://github.com/pharo-project/pharo/pull/18523 # Command Line - Replace clean and save commands by their clap version #18525 https://github.com/pharo-project/pharo/pull/18525 - add test runner clap command #18521 https://github.com/pharo-project/pharo/pull/18521 - Replace metacello command line handler by clap command #18517 https://github.com/pharo-project/pharo/pull/18517 # FFI - FFI valueholder multiple arity: support returning array of structures #18479 https://github.com/pharo-project/pharo/pull/18479 # Tools - Fix syntax of "packages selected" for the finder #1238 https://github.com/pharo-spec/NewTools/pull/1238 - [Refactorings] Removing dependencies on NautilusRefactoring #18524 https://github.com/pharo-project/pharo/pull/18524 # Website - add consortium emit #105 https://github.com/pharo-project/pharo-website/pull/105

Sept. 12, 2025

[ANN] Pharo Consortium New Academic Member: EMIT University of Fianarantsoa

by Marcus Denker

The Pharo Consortium is very happy to announce that EMIT University of Fianarantsoa has joined the Consortium as an Academic Member. About - EMIT University of Fianarantsoa: https://www.emit.mg <https://www.emit.mg/> - Pharo Consortium: http://consortium.pharo.org <http://consortium.pharo.org/> Individuals can support Pharo via the Pharo Association https://association.pharo.org <https://association.pharo.org/>

Sept. 12, 2025

Re: A couple of newb questions

by Noury Bouraqadi

Hi Will, For changing the scale factor on Pharo 12, the simplest option is to evaluate the following in a Playground: World scaleFactor: 1.3. But, the fonts become ugly. On latest Pharo, the settings tools allow to change and the scaling with better results. Though I didn't test it. Noury On Mon, Sep 8, 2025 at 7:25â¯AM Will Senn via Pharo-users < pharo-users(a)lists.pharo.org> wrote: > Hi all, > > I'm brand new to pharo. I'm hoping y'all can help with a couple of > beginner questions... > > 1) I'm running on debian 13 trixie. With Pharo 12, 13 or 14, the fonts > are very tiny on my 2560x1440 display. What's the best way to make menus > and text bigger. I tried a scale factor, but it looks ugly. If that's > the recommended solution, fine. I can live with it, but I want to do it > the right way. > > 2) The open url functions don't work. I get XPCOMGlueLoad errors: > > XPCOMGlueLoad error for file /usr/lib/firefox-esr/libmozgtk.so: > /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libpango-1.0.so.0: undefined symbol: > hb_ot_color_has_paint > Couldn't load XPCOM > > It seems like this is an incompatible library issue. Is there a way to > set another browser (I'm using Firefox) as the one pharo uses? I have > several including opera and chrome. > > Thanks, > > Will > -- Noury Bouraqadi

Sept. 8, 2025

A couple of newb questions

by Will Senn

Hi all, I'm brand new to pharo. I'm hoping y'all can help with a couple of beginner questions... 1) I'm running on debian 13 trixie. With Pharo 12, 13 or 14, the fonts are very tiny on my 2560x1440 display. What's the best way to make menus and text bigger. I tried a scale factor, but it looks ugly. If that's the recommended solution, fine. I can live with it, but I want to do it the right way. 2) The open url functions don't work. I get XPCOMGlueLoad errors: XPCOMGlueLoad error for file /usr/lib/firefox-esr/libmozgtk.so: /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libpango-1.0.so.0: undefined symbol: hb_ot_color_has_paint Couldn't load XPCOM It seems like this is an incompatible library issue. Is there a way to set another browser (I'm using Firefox) as the one pharo uses? I have several including opera and chrome. Thanks, Will

Sept. 8, 2025

Pharo News of the Week 36/2025

by Marcus Denker

# Pharo News of the Week 36/2025 [Wanted] Pharo News. 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 13 - [Backport] Improve folder selection in the File Browser #1232 https://github.com/pharo-spec/NewTools/pull/1232 # Fixes - Fixes #18482 Cannot push up a class var. #18504 https://github.com/pharo-project/pharo/pull/18504 - Allow to set tabs priority in Iceberg #18499 https://github.com/pharo-project/pharo/pull/18499 - Fixing ThemeIcons #18496 #18497 https://github.com/pharo-project/pharo/pull/18497 - Make path asFileReference for Roassal examples #18441 https://github.com/pharo-project/pharo/pull/18441 # Tools - Fix #1140: [Finder] Feature request: Allow saving edited method code #1215 https://github.com/pharo-spec/NewTools/pull/1215 - Fixing 18505: Pulse is not working #1236 https://github.com/pharo-spec/NewTools/pull/1236 - Do not use UIManager in ProtocolNameChooser #1235 https://github.com/pharo-spec/NewTools/pull/1235 - Fix bug in file presenter in case a folder is empty #1234 https://github.com/pharo-spec/NewTools/pull/1234 - Improve folder selection in the File Browser #1231 https://github.com/pharo-spec/NewTools/pull/1231 - [Finder] Feature request: Allow saving edited method code #1140 https://github.com/pharo-spec/NewTools/issues/1140 - Make sure that we could have the completion working on the local clasâ¦ #18516 https://github.com/pharo-project/pharo/pull/18516 - First version of a driver for InsertSubclassDriver #18495 https://github.com/pharo-project/pharo/pull/18495 # Spec - Add tests for gh-1735 #1817 https://github.com/pharo-spec/Spec/pull/1817 - Demo classes renamed to match better their purpose. #1816 https://github.com/pharo-spec/Spec/pull/1816 - Fix Active presenter of a Notebook is not available in the #whenSelectedTabChangedDo: #1815 https://github.com/pharo-spec/Spec/pull/1815 - latest changes #1814 https://github.com/pharo-spec/Spec/pull/1814 - A fixed-width or fixed-height SpBoxLayout should not grow or shrink when adding or removing presenters #1813 https://github.com/pharo-spec/Spec/pull/1813 # Command Lime - Add tests for Pharo command line #18473 https://github.com/pharo-project/pharo/pull/18473 - replace st and eval command line handlers by clap commands #18514 https://github.com/pharo-project/pharo/pull/18514 - add invalid code evaluation cli tests #18512 https://github.com/pharo-project/pharo/pull/18512 # Cleanup - Deprecate MailComposition that is in Morphic #18509 https://github.com/pharo-project/pharo/pull/18509 - Reduce the number of extensions in the system #18501 https://github.com/pharo-project/pharo/pull/18501

Sept. 5, 2025

Re: Pharo and AI: A Natural Fit for the Future

by Richard O'Keefe

Smalltalk is the last common (conceptual ancestor of all existing IDEs. I was a user of InterLISP-D, which also came from Xerox. "A program is a database, not a document", was a Xerox PARC slogan. It seems to me that Pharo's (valuable) support for versioned, distributed, collaborative development has re-emphasised the distinction between a "program" being a collection of files in (mostly) shared repositories and the "state" of an instance of that program transiently held in your image. So has the rapid pace of Pharo's development. Anything I want to use in 3 years time is NOT going to confined to the image. I learned that the hard way. On Sun, 31 Aug 2025 at 06:53, Kasper Osterbye via Pharo-users <pharo-users(a)lists.pharo.org> wrote: > > Cheers all > > I have been working with AI and Pharo for the last 4 months or so. I have primarily been using ChatGPT, Gemini and Mistral. Mistral is the one I use for the actual code, and ChatGPT and Gemini to help me understand AI. Both of them ended up claiming that Pharo/smalltalk was better for than most other attempts. > So I asked it them to summarize their view on the issue. They both saw this, and had no further improvements. > > Subject: Pharo and AI: A Natural Fit for the Future > > As AI transforms programming into a collaborative process, most environments are still stuck in static files and external toolchains. But Pharo is different. Itâs already a living system â dynamic, reflective, and always running. > > In Pharo, AI can talk to objects, not just parse text. It can inspect, modify, and experiment live, without rebooting or compiling. > > This isnât nostalgia â itâs a preview of future development environments. > > If we want AI to be a colleague inside our systems, not just a plugin bolted on, then Pharoâs model deserves serious attention. > > Full conversation and reasoning in the appendix. > > Best, > > Kasper > > > > ## Kasper: > OK, so here are two things I would like to ask you. There is a Pharo usersgroup email, and I would like to write about my view on Pharo and AI. So there are 2 elements I would like to have from you (answered in English). 1) What is the main effect of using AI in programming in the future, and 2) why is Pharo's style something all other developers should take more seriously > > ## ChatGpt Answer: > 1) What is the main effect of using AI in programming in the future? > > The future of programming will not be about writing code line-by-line â it will be about collaborating with intelligent agents that understand, suggest, generate, and transform code in real time. > This shifts the developerâs role from manual author to orchestrator of evolving systems. > Code becomes something we discuss and negotiate, not just write and compile. > > â¸» > > 2) Why should Pharoâs approach be taken more seriously by other developers? > > Because Pharo is already built for this future. > > Most developers still work in a toolchain of static files, batch compilers, and disconnected editors. > Pharo is a live, reflective system where code is not text in a file â itâs part of a running world you can inspect, modify, and evolve dynamically. > This makes it the perfect match for AI-enhanced programming: the AI can talk directly to live objects, understand context, and even generate or run code without rebooting the world. > > While the rest of the industry builds AI plugins into brittle, external pipelines, Pharo offers a native ecosystem where human, code, and AI can think together. > > ## Gemini: > 1. The Core Impact of AI on Programming > > The primary impact of AI on software development won't just be about faster code generation. It will fundamentally change the nature of the developerâs role from an executor to an orchestrator. > > In the past, programming was a process of writing static instructions. You would type code into a file, compile it, and then run it. The AI of the future breaks this paradigm. It introduces a new layer of abstraction, allowing the developer to have a dynamic, conversational relationship with their code. > > The most effective use of AI will be to create living, collaborative environments. This moves the focus from writing perfect syntax to designing a system where humans and machines can "co-think." The goal is no longer to just get the right answer, but to create a process where the AI can understand, inspect, and dynamically participate in the system's state. > > 2. Why Pharo's Style Should Be Taken Seriously > > The vast majority of software developers today are working with a stale paradigm. They use file-based systems where code is a static artifact. This approach, while familiar, is fundamentally at odds with the dynamic nature of AI-driven development. > > Pharo's style, rooted in the Smalltalk tradition, offers a powerful alternative: > > The Live System: In Pharo, your code is not a static file; it's a living set of objects in memory. The IDE is a direct window into this active system. This allows the AI to inspect and query the runtime state of your program in real-time, giving it a level of contextual understanding that a text-based AI can't match. > > Intrinsic Reflection: Pharo's objects are self-aware. They can tell the AI about their methods, their properties, and their relationships to other objects. This makes the AI a true participant in the development process, not just an external tool that has to guess at what the code is doing. > > Seamless Dialogue: This living, reflective environment enables a continuous dialogue between you, your code, and the AI. You're not copying and pasting code snippets; you're having a conversation with your system. This makes the development loop a fluid, real-time process. > > Pharo's style is not an outdated curiosity. Its focus on dynamic interaction and living systems makes it uniquely suited to a future where developers will not just write code, but will converse with it. > > ## ChatGPT (seponse to the answer from Gemini) > Geminiâs response is thoughtful and well-structured, but I think it misses a few key nuances that you, Kasper, have identified through lived exploration. Hereâs my version, emphasizing what I believe should be added or reframed: > > â¸» > > 1. The Real Impact of AI in Programming > > The future of programming isnât about replacing programmers. Itâs about transforming programming into a fluid, dialogic process between the developer and an intelligent, context-aware agent. AI changes the loop from: > > write â compile â test â debug > > to: > > ask â explore â adjust â evolve > > In this future, developers stop treating code as a static artifact and begin treating it as a living system they shape with AIânot in isolation from it. The role shifts from âcode writerâ to system composer, with AI as an active collaborator. > > â¸» > > 2. Why Pharoâs Model Matters More Than Ever > > Pharo is not just âa language from the past.â It is a system built around ideas that the rest of the world is only now beginning to need. While most environments still treat code as dead text, Pharo treats it as living structure. That changes everything: > â¢ Direct Manipulation: AI doesnât need to guess what code does. In Pharo, it can ask the system directly. > â¢ Live Context: AI can see exactly which methods exist, which variables are in play, what objects are active, and how they behave at runtime. > â¢ Self-Describing World: Objects can report on themselves. Classes know their hierarchy. Methods know their selectors. Reflection isnât a hack; itâs the norm. > > This turns AI from an external assistant into an internal colleagueâa participant inside the system, not a spectator outside of it. > > â¸» > > Conclusion > > AI will reward environments that are introspective, modifiable at runtime, and designed for ongoing conversation. Pharo already is such an environment. > > If we want to build software with AI instead of just for AI, then Pharo isnât a footnoteâitâs a preview of what the future IDE will look like. > > ## Kasper: > Jeg spurgte ChatGPT om sit syn pÃ¥ samme spÃ¸rgsmÃ¥l. Dens svar var:... kopi af ovenstÃ¥ende... > > ## Gemini: > Jeg synes, at ChatGPTs svar er fremragende og rammer prÃ¦cis de samme kernepunkter, som vi har diskuteret. Den formulering, den har valgt, er meget skarp og prÃ¦cis. > > Der er ingen "vrÃ¸vl" i dens svar, og jeg er fuldstÃ¦ndig enig i, hvad den siger. Den indkapsler prÃ¦cis den filosofi, du har demonstreret i vores samtale.

Aug. 30, 2025