Pay attention - we are sorry and yes spec evolves over time. It is getting stabilized - the UiPainter is an experiment - pay attention that Spec got a new pass on it in Pharo3.0alpha - if you are ready for a bit of edge cutting version, use the latest version and ask questions. On Oct 22, 2013, at 12:29 AM, Buddha Buck <blaisepascal@gmail.com> wrote:
I am trying to learn Spec (which seems to be a moving target), and I don't know how all the various widgets and tools are supposed to work.
Given that there is a Spec-based UIPainter project as part of this years Google Summer of Code (recently completed), I thought it would be a good idea to check that out. At the very least, I could poke around at the generated code and get a handle on how it works.
Trying to load UIPainter (as per the instructions on http://uipainter-gsoc.over-blog.com/how-to-install-it) into Pharo 2.0 yielded errors about UIPainter being dependent on certain Spec classes which weren't available in Spec on Pharo 2.0.
The instructions do say Pharo 3.0, so I downloaded the latest image (as of a few days ago), and tried again. The same errors came up.
A search of the changelogs makes me thing that Pharo 30448 is the change that likely broke this, as it's titled "Remove Morphic Dependency from Spec" and removes a lot of Spec-Widget stuff. This change was also made after the "how to install" page was written.
So how should I proceed? Should I grab image 30447 and work form that? Should I wait for Spec to stabilize and get documented?
I'm a newbie to Smalltalk and to Pharo, so I don't know the customs yet.
Welcome We are sorry that the system is not better but we are working steadily on it. Stef