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Open Source OODB's
by Victor Stan April 23, 2013

April 23, 2013

Hi, Are there any open source OODB's out there? Alternatives to GemStone? I've briefly tried searching online, but I haven't found anything yet... Cheers, Victor Stan Schedule me: http://quicklyschedule.quicklyschedule.me/victor Add me to your address book - it's easy! http://contactmonkey.com/victor

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Package load times
by Chris April 22, 2013

April 22, 2013

I've recently upgraded a project to Pharo 2 which went relatively smoothly but thought I'd share my experience with loading times In Pharo 1.4, it used to take about 5-6 minutes to build everything from a base image but I noticed that if I ran the package loads inside a SystemChangeNotifier uniqueInstance doSilently: then the load time went down to like 2 minutes without any other side effects. In Pharo 2, it was taking a lot longer so I ran it through the equivalent SystemAnnouncer uniqueInstance suspendAllWhile: which did the job in terms of speed but all of the classes ended up unpackaged. After a little bit of digging I eventually found that by running MCWorkingCopy unregisterForNotifications before the package load, it came back to a sensible load time and everything seems to work again. My question is can this practice become part of a configuration load? I tried loading Iliad from the package cache just as an example and if you do a ConfigurationOfIliad load it takes 310 seconds, whereas MCWorkingCopy unregisterForNotifications. ConfigurationOfIliad load. MCWorkingCopy registerForNotifications. only takes 42 seconds. The main problem seems to be MCPackageManager>>#methodModified which sets the package modified state is taking about 60m/s to run each time because it is initializing an RPackage for every package in the system. Is there any way this can be cached better? Cheers Chris

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Software Integration Survey
by Martin Dias April 22, 2013

April 22, 2013

Hi all, We are conducting an academic research to improve tools for software integration. If you maintain a project with multiple contributors, we will greatly appreciate your participation. Your answers will be used for research purposes and to support the development of new tools. You can later access the results of this study, make free use of our tools to support the integration of changes, and maybe receive a gift. https://sondages.inria.fr/index.php/667625/lang-en Best regards, MartÃn Dias, Nicolas Anquetil, VerÃ³nica Isabel Uquillas, StÃ©phane Ducasse and the RMOD Inria team

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GSoC: more mentors wanted
by Janko MivÅ¡ek April 20, 2013

April 20, 2013

Dear Pharoers, We have quite nice projects, but mentors are still missing: http://gsoc2013.esug.org/projects http://gsoc2013.esug.org/mentors Look for projects without mentors and if you are interested, register on the site, go to the project and click Edit in the grayed area and choose yourself as a mentor. Same goes for the second mentor. Look around for such projects, offer the main mentor a help and if he agrees, put yourself on that project. That way you will influence the projects and therefore the whole Smalltalk the best possible way! What's difference between mentor and second mentor? Mentor is responsible for a project and student through the whole project lifecycle, while second mentor is officially to replace the main mentor in a case he cannot be mentor for any reasons anymore, but unofficially second mentor also helps the main mentor working on the project. There is only one main and only one second mentor possible. So please, anyone interested look at the projects and volunteer for mentorship. By replying to me or Serge, or to the current potential mentors. Best regards Janko -- Janko MivÅ¡ek Smalltalk GSoC Admin Team http://gsoc2013.esug.org

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Spec Font Size
by Sean P. DeNigris April 20, 2013

April 20, 2013

How would I change the font size in a TextInputFieldModel ----- Cheers, Sean -- View this message in context: http://forum.world.st/Spec-Font-Size-tp4682677.html Sent from the Pharo Smalltalk Users mailing list archive at Nabble.com.

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TextInputFieldModel Scrollbars
by Sean P. DeNigris April 20, 2013

April 20, 2013

My Spec UI has a TextInputFieldModel, which at one point had text that was much too large to show at once. I expected scroll bars, but none appeared. Is there a way to turn them on? Ideally they'd appear automatically when necessary... Thanks! ----- Cheers, Sean -- View this message in context: http://forum.world.st/TextInputFieldModel-Scrollbars-tp4682447.html Sent from the Pharo Smalltalk Users mailing list archive at Nabble.com.

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Re: [Pharo-users] TextInputFieldModel Scrollbars
by Stephan Eggermont April 19, 2013

April 19, 2013

Ben wrote: >Comments ? in Morphic ? Mouahahah :) >;) ((PackageOrganizer default packages select: [ :package |package packageName beginsWith: 'Morphic' ]) collect: [ :package | package methods collect: [ :meth | meth compiledMethod comment ] ] )flatten asSet size 2169 Stephan :)

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files.pharo.org: Moving to new server
by Marcus Denker April 19, 2013

April 19, 2013

Hi, We will change the DNS to a new server. This should be transparent, but of course we never knowâ¦ Stages: 1) Change DNS to point to new server of (TODAY) files.pharo.org get.pharo.org updates.pharo.org 2) Change DNS Server from NameCheap to new provider (TOMORROW) (this will speed up DNS queries ;-) 3) enable CDN for the static files. (NEXT WEEK) Marcus and Camillo

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Downloading text vs. binary
by Sean P. DeNigris April 19, 2013

April 19, 2013

Zinc seems to think the following is text, but if I download it via Chrome on my Mac, it recognizes it as binary: | latestVersionUrl | latestVersionUrl := 'http://mirrors.jenkins-ci.org/war/latest/jenkins.war'. ZnClient new accept: ZnMimeType applicationOctetStream; url: latestVersionUrl; downloadTo: directory. ----- Cheers, Sean -- View this message in context: http://forum.world.st/Downloading-text-vs-binary-tp4682396.html Sent from the Pharo Smalltalk Users mailing list archive at Nabble.com.

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Ho to spare a Pharo desktop application user from seeing the debugger?
by MartinW April 18, 2013

April 18, 2013

I deploy a Pharo desktop application and i want to spare the user from seeing the debugger, because most users would not know what to do with it. My solution for the moment is to place an [] on: Exception do: [] around my application's entrance point: [ "main application workflow" ] on: Exception do: [ self inform: 'Something has gone wrong...'. "and restart application"] Do you think, this an acceptable solution? Are there others? M. -- View this message in context: http://forum.world.st/Ho-to-spare-a-Pharo-desktop-application-user-from-see… Sent from the Pharo Smalltalk Users mailing list archive at Nabble.com.

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