[ANN] Pharo Compendium
Hi, time flows and Pharo-Project is improving on all ends since its inception in 2008. As you know over time for the code project hosting we used SqueakSource, SS3 repos and other and later switched to SmalltalkHub available on http://smalltalkhub.com. Starting with Iceberg in Pharo 6 many community projects are now hosted elsewhere - most of them moved to GitHub. Pharo's git support allows also for GitLab, BitBucket and other git hosting services. I still think easy and quick accessibility to external (re)sources directly from the image is key - especially for new users who often get lost among all the various things that are available. Back in 2013 I therefore provided a small tool called ConfigBrowser as a replacement for MetacelloConfigurationBrowser to easily load Metacello configs directly into Pharo. Later we improved quick loading with a primary tool called "Catalog" written by Esteban. Catalog is indexing every 24 hours all configs within specific meta-repositories on SmalltalkHub (per Pharo version) like http://www.smalltalkhub.com/#!/~Pharo/MetaRepoForPharo80 to automatically build http://catalog.pharo.org/ and also a JSON source http://catalog.pharo.org/catalog/json The last one feeds the catalog browser and catalog spotter search within the Pharo image. So Catalog helped us and especially new Pharo users to find what is available as external project or package. Unfortunately some package maintainers are too lazy and do not maintain their configs over old and new Pharo versions. Also SmalltalkHub.com is now seen as legacy and will only be available in a read only mode or as a browseable archive soon. So we have to think about others steps beyond Catalog and (triggered by a recent discussion on Discord) I started now a simple tool that helped me finding all GitHub projects marked with "pharo" as GitHub topic. I additionally also added previous catalog loading. More sources could be added as well as some kind of custom stores/plugins. Maybe this tool could be the base for a future replacement of the catalog tool. Long story short - let me introduce "Pharo Compendium": Compendium is a new UI tool to list, browse and load Pharo artefacts from the web like: - GitHub Projects - Catalog Projects and other By default there are two plugin packages available for GitHub and Catalog - but you can implement own ones easily to connect to other sources on the web. Compendium is available on: https://github.com/astares/Pharo-Compendium It is implemented using the new Spec2 UI framework - so you need a recent Pharo 9 image to give it a try. Just run: Metacello new repository: 'github://astares/Pharo-Compendium/src'; baseline: 'Compendium'; load to load the tool. Then go to "Tools" -> "Compendium Browser". Attached is a screenshot demoing the primary functionality. If you want your GitHub project to be listed in the tool you simply need to add the topic "pharo" to the GitHub repository on the GitHub webpage. Feel free to comment or help improving the tool by sending PR's. Thx T. (aka astares)
Really cool Torsten!. A much needed tool :) On Sat, May 2, 2020 at 5:35 PM Torsten Bergmann <astares@gmx.de> wrote:
Hi,
time flows and Pharo-Project is improving on all ends since its inception in 2008. As you know over time for the code project hosting we used SqueakSource, SS3 repos and other and later switched to SmalltalkHub available on http://smalltalkhub.com. Starting with Iceberg in Pharo 6 many community projects are now hosted elsewhere - most of them moved to GitHub. Pharo's git support allows also for GitLab, BitBucket and other git hosting services.
I still think easy and quick accessibility to external (re)sources directly from the image is key - especially for new users who often get lost among all the various things that are available. Back in 2013 I therefore provided a small tool called ConfigBrowser as a replacement for MetacelloConfigurationBrowser to easily load Metacello configs directly into Pharo.
Later we improved quick loading with a primary tool called "Catalog" written by Esteban. Catalog is indexing every 24 hours all configs within specific meta-repositories on SmalltalkHub (per Pharo version) like
http://www.smalltalkhub.com/#!/~Pharo/MetaRepoForPharo80
to automatically build
and also a JSON source
http://catalog.pharo.org/catalog/json
The last one feeds the catalog browser and catalog spotter search within the Pharo image.
So Catalog helped us and especially new Pharo users to find what is available as external project or package. Unfortunately some package maintainers are too lazy and do not maintain their configs over old and new Pharo versions. Also SmalltalkHub.com is now seen as legacy and will only be available in a read only mode or as a browseable archive soon.
So we have to think about others steps beyond Catalog and (triggered by a recent discussion on Discord) I started now a simple tool that helped me finding all GitHub projects marked with "pharo" as GitHub topic. I additionally also added previous catalog loading. More sources could be added as well as some kind of custom stores/plugins. Maybe this tool could be the base for a future replacement of the catalog tool.
Long story short - let me introduce "Pharo Compendium":
Compendium is a new UI tool to list, browse and load Pharo artefacts from the web like:
- GitHub Projects - Catalog Projects
and other
By default there are two plugin packages available for GitHub and Catalog - but you can implement own ones easily to connect to other sources on the web. Compendium is available on:
https://github.com/astares/Pharo-Compendium
It is implemented using the new Spec2 UI framework - so you need a recent Pharo 9 image to give it a try. Just run:
Metacello new repository: 'github://astares/Pharo-Compendium/src'; baseline: 'Compendium'; load
to load the tool. Then go to "Tools" -> "Compendium Browser". Attached is a screenshot demoing the primary functionality.
If you want your GitHub project to be listed in the tool you simply need to add the topic "pharo" to the GitHub repository on the GitHub webpage.
Feel free to comment or help improving the tool by sending PR's.
Thx T. (aka astares)
Excellent Torsten! I guess it will not work in Pharo 8 because of the Spec 2 requirement. Right? Regards! Esteban A. Maringolo On Sat, May 2, 2020 at 5:35 PM Torsten Bergmann <astares@gmx.de> wrote:
Hi,
time flows and Pharo-Project is improving on all ends since its inception in 2008. As you know over time for the code project hosting we used SqueakSource, SS3 repos and other and later switched to SmalltalkHub available on http://smalltalkhub.com. Starting with Iceberg in Pharo 6 many community projects are now hosted elsewhere - most of them moved to GitHub. Pharo's git support allows also for GitLab, BitBucket and other git hosting services.
I still think easy and quick accessibility to external (re)sources directly from the image is key - especially for new users who often get lost among all the various things that are available. Back in 2013 I therefore provided a small tool called ConfigBrowser as a replacement for MetacelloConfigurationBrowser to easily load Metacello configs directly into Pharo.
Later we improved quick loading with a primary tool called "Catalog" written by Esteban. Catalog is indexing every 24 hours all configs within specific meta-repositories on SmalltalkHub (per Pharo version) like
http://www.smalltalkhub.com/#!/~Pharo/MetaRepoForPharo80
to automatically build
and also a JSON source
http://catalog.pharo.org/catalog/json
The last one feeds the catalog browser and catalog spotter search within the Pharo image.
So Catalog helped us and especially new Pharo users to find what is available as external project or package. Unfortunately some package maintainers are too lazy and do not maintain their configs over old and new Pharo versions. Also SmalltalkHub.com is now seen as legacy and will only be available in a read only mode or as a browseable archive soon.
So we have to think about others steps beyond Catalog and (triggered by a recent discussion on Discord) I started now a simple tool that helped me finding all GitHub projects marked with "pharo" as GitHub topic. I additionally also added previous catalog loading. More sources could be added as well as some kind of custom stores/plugins. Maybe this tool could be the base for a future replacement of the catalog tool.
Long story short - let me introduce "Pharo Compendium":
Compendium is a new UI tool to list, browse and load Pharo artefacts from the web like:
- GitHub Projects - Catalog Projects
and other
By default there are two plugin packages available for GitHub and Catalog - but you can implement own ones easily to connect to other sources on the web. Compendium is available on:
https://github.com/astares/Pharo-Compendium
It is implemented using the new Spec2 UI framework - so you need a recent Pharo 9 image to give it a try. Just run:
Metacello new repository: 'github://astares/Pharo-Compendium/src'; baseline: 'Compendium'; load
to load the tool. Then go to "Tools" -> "Compendium Browser". Attached is a screenshot demoing the primary functionality.
If you want your GitHub project to be listed in the tool you simply need to add the topic "pharo" to the GitHub repository on the GitHub webpage.
Feel free to comment or help improving the tool by sending PR's.
Thx T. (aka astares)
It can probably work in P8 because parts of Spec20 are working in P8 but not all the features and widgets like tables and others. But torsten will tell us.
On 3 May 2020, at 17:34, Esteban Maringolo <emaringolo@gmail.com> wrote:
Excellent Torsten!
I guess it will not work in Pharo 8 because of the Spec 2 requirement. Right?
Regards!
Esteban A. Maringolo
On Sat, May 2, 2020 at 5:35 PM Torsten Bergmann <astares@gmx.de> wrote:
Hi,
time flows and Pharo-Project is improving on all ends since its inception in 2008. As you know over time for the code project hosting we used SqueakSource, SS3 repos and other and later switched to SmalltalkHub available on http://smalltalkhub.com. Starting with Iceberg in Pharo 6 many community projects are now hosted elsewhere - most of them moved to GitHub. Pharo's git support allows also for GitLab, BitBucket and other git hosting services.
I still think easy and quick accessibility to external (re)sources directly from the image is key - especially for new users who often get lost among all the various things that are available. Back in 2013 I therefore provided a small tool called ConfigBrowser as a replacement for MetacelloConfigurationBrowser to easily load Metacello configs directly into Pharo.
Later we improved quick loading with a primary tool called "Catalog" written by Esteban. Catalog is indexing every 24 hours all configs within specific meta-repositories on SmalltalkHub (per Pharo version) like
http://www.smalltalkhub.com/#!/~Pharo/MetaRepoForPharo80
to automatically build
and also a JSON source
http://catalog.pharo.org/catalog/json
The last one feeds the catalog browser and catalog spotter search within the Pharo image.
So Catalog helped us and especially new Pharo users to find what is available as external project or package. Unfortunately some package maintainers are too lazy and do not maintain their configs over old and new Pharo versions. Also SmalltalkHub.com is now seen as legacy and will only be available in a read only mode or as a browseable archive soon.
So we have to think about others steps beyond Catalog and (triggered by a recent discussion on Discord) I started now a simple tool that helped me finding all GitHub projects marked with "pharo" as GitHub topic. I additionally also added previous catalog loading. More sources could be added as well as some kind of custom stores/plugins. Maybe this tool could be the base for a future replacement of the catalog tool.
Long story short - let me introduce "Pharo Compendium":
Compendium is a new UI tool to list, browse and load Pharo artefacts from the web like:
- GitHub Projects - Catalog Projects
and other
By default there are two plugin packages available for GitHub and Catalog - but you can implement own ones easily to connect to other sources on the web. Compendium is available on:
https://github.com/astares/Pharo-Compendium
It is implemented using the new Spec2 UI framework - so you need a recent Pharo 9 image to give it a try. Just run:
Metacello new repository: 'github://astares/Pharo-Compendium/src'; baseline: 'Compendium'; load
to load the tool. Then go to "Tools" -> "Compendium Browser". Attached is a screenshot demoing the primary functionality.
If you want your GitHub project to be listed in the tool you simply need to add the topic "pharo" to the GitHub repository on the GitHub webpage.
Feel free to comment or help improving the tool by sending PR's.
Thx T. (aka astares)
-------------------------------------------- Stéphane Ducasse http://stephane.ducasse.free.fr / http://www.pharo.org 03 59 35 87 52 Assistant: Julie Jonas FAX 03 59 57 78 50 TEL 03 59 35 86 16 S. Ducasse - Inria 40, avenue Halley, Parc Scientifique de la Haute Borne, Bât.A, Park Plaza Villeneuve d'Ascq 59650 France
Yes - I was developing on P9 and never tried it in Pharo 8. But I checked now - seems to work without any problem there as well. Thx T. Gesendet: Sonntag, 03. Mai 2020 um 22:36 Uhr Von: "Stéphane Ducasse" <stephane.ducasse@inria.fr> An: "Any question about pharo is welcome" <pharo-users@lists.pharo.org> Betreff: Re: [Pharo-users] [ANN] Pharo Compendium It can probably work in P8 because parts of Spec20 are working in P8 but not all the features and widgets like tables and others. But torsten will tell us.  On 3 May 2020, at 17:34, Esteban Maringolo <emaringolo@gmail.com[mailto:emaringolo@gmail.com]> wrote: Excellent Torsten! I guess it will not work in Pharo 8 because of the Spec 2 requirement. Right? Regards! Esteban A. Maringolo
In the past we added metadata to manifest. And the compedium could take advantage of that. We will have to work on it (end of the month). S
On 4 May 2020, at 01:33, Torsten Bergmann <astares@gmx.de> wrote:
Yes - I was developing on P9 and never tried it in Pharo 8. But I checked now - seems to work without any problem there as well.
Thx T.
Gesendet: Sonntag, 03. Mai 2020 um 22:36 Uhr Von: "Stéphane Ducasse" <stephane.ducasse@inria.fr> An: "Any question about pharo is welcome" <pharo-users@lists.pharo.org> Betreff: Re: [Pharo-users] [ANN] Pharo Compendium
It can probably work in P8 because parts of Spec20 are working in P8 but not all the features and widgets like tables and others. But torsten will tell us.
On 3 May 2020, at 17:34, Esteban Maringolo <emaringolo@gmail.com[mailto:emaringolo@gmail.com]> wrote:
Excellent Torsten!
I guess it will not work in Pharo 8 because of the Spec 2 requirement. Right?
Regards!
Esteban A. Maringolo
-------------------------------------------- Stéphane Ducasse http://stephane.ducasse.free.fr / http://www.pharo.org 03 59 35 87 52 Assistant: Julie Jonas FAX 03 59 57 78 50 TEL 03 59 35 86 16 S. Ducasse - Inria 40, avenue Halley, Parc Scientifique de la Haute Borne, Bât.A, Park Plaza Villeneuve d'Ascq 59650 France
Great work, Torsten, works like a charm ! Since all Github projects have a README.md maybe that could be used as well, it will certainly contain more information. Most projects have several keyswords as well, that could be useful to show. Also, why not add a 'clone & metacello install baseline of' command ? Another idea: allow spotter searching of the pharo compendium entries ? Sven
On 2 May 2020, at 22:34, Torsten Bergmann <astares@gmx.de> wrote:
Hi,
time flows and Pharo-Project is improving on all ends since its inception in 2008. As you know over time for the code project hosting we used SqueakSource, SS3 repos and other and later switched to SmalltalkHub available on http://smalltalkhub.com. Starting with Iceberg in Pharo 6 many community projects are now hosted elsewhere - most of them moved to GitHub. Pharo's git support allows also for GitLab, BitBucket and other git hosting services.
I still think easy and quick accessibility to external (re)sources directly from the image is key - especially for new users who often get lost among all the various things that are available. Back in 2013 I therefore provided a small tool called ConfigBrowser as a replacement for MetacelloConfigurationBrowser to easily load Metacello configs directly into Pharo.
Later we improved quick loading with a primary tool called "Catalog" written by Esteban. Catalog is indexing every 24 hours all configs within specific meta-repositories on SmalltalkHub (per Pharo version) like
http://www.smalltalkhub.com/#!/~Pharo/MetaRepoForPharo80
to automatically build
and also a JSON source
http://catalog.pharo.org/catalog/json
The last one feeds the catalog browser and catalog spotter search within the Pharo image.
So Catalog helped us and especially new Pharo users to find what is available as external project or package. Unfortunately some package maintainers are too lazy and do not maintain their configs over old and new Pharo versions. Also SmalltalkHub.com is now seen as legacy and will only be available in a read only mode or as a browseable archive soon.
So we have to think about others steps beyond Catalog and (triggered by a recent discussion on Discord) I started now a simple tool that helped me finding all GitHub projects marked with "pharo" as GitHub topic. I additionally also added previous catalog loading. More sources could be added as well as some kind of custom stores/plugins. Maybe this tool could be the base for a future replacement of the catalog tool.
Long story short - let me introduce "Pharo Compendium":
Compendium is a new UI tool to list, browse and load Pharo artefacts from the web like:
- GitHub Projects - Catalog Projects
and other
By default there are two plugin packages available for GitHub and Catalog - but you can implement own ones easily to connect to other sources on the web. Compendium is available on:
https://github.com/astares/Pharo-Compendium
It is implemented using the new Spec2 UI framework - so you need a recent Pharo 9 image to give it a try. Just run:
Metacello new repository: 'github://astares/Pharo-Compendium/src'; baseline: 'Compendium'; load
to load the tool. Then go to "Tools" -> "Compendium Browser". Attached is a screenshot demoing the primary functionality.
If you want your GitHub project to be listed in the tool you simply need to add the topic "pharo" to the GitHub repository on the GitHub webpage.
Feel free to comment or help improving the tool by sending PR's.
Thx T. (aka astares)
<compendium.png>
Hi Sven, I added spotter search now. I prefixed the github spotter entries additionally with the user name (owner). This way you will be able to quickly find tagged public projects by keying in the project and/or username. See attached picture for an example. Catalog loading is possible via spotter too. Have fun T.
Gesendet: Mittwoch, 06. Mai 2020 um 14:24 Uhr Von: "Sven Van Caekenberghe" <sven@stfx.eu> An: "Any question about pharo is welcome" <pharo-users@lists.pharo.org> Betreff: Re: [Pharo-users] [ANN] Pharo Compendium
Great work, Torsten, works like a charm !
Since all Github projects have a README.md maybe that could be used as well, it will certainly contain more information.
Most projects have several keyswords as well, that could be useful to show.
Also, why not add a 'clone & metacello install baseline of' command ?
Another idea: allow spotter searching of the pharo compendium entries ?
Sven
On 2 May 2020, at 22:34, Torsten Bergmann <astares@gmx.de> wrote:
Hi,
time flows and Pharo-Project is improving on all ends since its inception in 2008. As you know over time for the code project hosting we used SqueakSource, SS3 repos and other and later switched to SmalltalkHub available on http://smalltalkhub.com. Starting with Iceberg in Pharo 6 many community projects are now hosted elsewhere - most of them moved to GitHub. Pharo's git support allows also for GitLab, BitBucket and other git hosting services.
I still think easy and quick accessibility to external (re)sources directly from the image is key - especially for new users who often get lost among all the various things that are available. Back in 2013 I therefore provided a small tool called ConfigBrowser as a replacement for MetacelloConfigurationBrowser to easily load Metacello configs directly into Pharo.
Later we improved quick loading with a primary tool called "Catalog" written by Esteban. Catalog is indexing every 24 hours all configs within specific meta-repositories on SmalltalkHub (per Pharo version) like
http://www.smalltalkhub.com/#!/~Pharo/MetaRepoForPharo80
to automatically build
and also a JSON source
http://catalog.pharo.org/catalog/json
The last one feeds the catalog browser and catalog spotter search within the Pharo image.
So Catalog helped us and especially new Pharo users to find what is available as external project or package. Unfortunately some package maintainers are too lazy and do not maintain their configs over old and new Pharo versions. Also SmalltalkHub.com is now seen as legacy and will only be available in a read only mode or as a browseable archive soon.
So we have to think about others steps beyond Catalog and (triggered by a recent discussion on Discord) I started now a simple tool that helped me finding all GitHub projects marked with "pharo" as GitHub topic. I additionally also added previous catalog loading. More sources could be added as well as some kind of custom stores/plugins. Maybe this tool could be the base for a future replacement of the catalog tool.
Long story short - let me introduce "Pharo Compendium":
Compendium is a new UI tool to list, browse and load Pharo artefacts from the web like:
- GitHub Projects - Catalog Projects
and other
By default there are two plugin packages available for GitHub and Catalog - but you can implement own ones easily to connect to other sources on the web. Compendium is available on:
https://github.com/astares/Pharo-Compendium
It is implemented using the new Spec2 UI framework - so you need a recent Pharo 9 image to give it a try. Just run:
Metacello new repository: 'github://astares/Pharo-Compendium/src'; baseline: 'Compendium'; load
to load the tool. Then go to "Tools" -> "Compendium Browser". Attached is a screenshot demoing the primary functionality.
If you want your GitHub project to be listed in the tool you simply need to add the topic "pharo" to the GitHub repository on the GitHub webpage.
Feel free to comment or help improving the tool by sending PR's.
Thx T. (aka astares)
<compendium.png>
Nice ;-) On 12 May 2020, at 16:35, Torsten Bergmann <astares@gmx.de> wrote:
Hi Sven,
I added spotter search now. I prefixed the github spotter entries additionally with the user name (owner). This way you will be able to quickly find tagged public projects by keying in the project and/or username.
See attached picture for an example.
Catalog loading is possible via spotter too.
Have fun T.
Gesendet: Mittwoch, 06. Mai 2020 um 14:24 Uhr Von: "Sven Van Caekenberghe" <sven@stfx.eu> An: "Any question about pharo is welcome" <pharo-users@lists.pharo.org> Betreff: Re: [Pharo-users] [ANN] Pharo Compendium
Great work, Torsten, works like a charm !
Since all Github projects have a README.md maybe that could be used as well, it will certainly contain more information.
Most projects have several keyswords as well, that could be useful to show.
Also, why not add a 'clone & metacello install baseline of' command ?
Another idea: allow spotter searching of the pharo compendium entries ?
Sven
On 2 May 2020, at 22:34, Torsten Bergmann <astares@gmx.de> wrote:
Hi,
time flows and Pharo-Project is improving on all ends since its inception in 2008. As you know over time for the code project hosting we used SqueakSource, SS3 repos and other and later switched to SmalltalkHub available on http://smalltalkhub.com. Starting with Iceberg in Pharo 6 many community projects are now hosted elsewhere - most of them moved to GitHub. Pharo's git support allows also for GitLab, BitBucket and other git hosting services.
I still think easy and quick accessibility to external (re)sources directly from the image is key - especially for new users who often get lost among all the various things that are available. Back in 2013 I therefore provided a small tool called ConfigBrowser as a replacement for MetacelloConfigurationBrowser to easily load Metacello configs directly into Pharo.
Later we improved quick loading with a primary tool called "Catalog" written by Esteban. Catalog is indexing every 24 hours all configs within specific meta-repositories on SmalltalkHub (per Pharo version) like
http://www.smalltalkhub.com/#!/~Pharo/MetaRepoForPharo80
to automatically build
and also a JSON source
http://catalog.pharo.org/catalog/json
The last one feeds the catalog browser and catalog spotter search within the Pharo image.
So Catalog helped us and especially new Pharo users to find what is available as external project or package. Unfortunately some package maintainers are too lazy and do not maintain their configs over old and new Pharo versions. Also SmalltalkHub.com is now seen as legacy and will only be available in a read only mode or as a browseable archive soon.
So we have to think about others steps beyond Catalog and (triggered by a recent discussion on Discord) I started now a simple tool that helped me finding all GitHub projects marked with "pharo" as GitHub topic. I additionally also added previous catalog loading. More sources could be added as well as some kind of custom stores/plugins. Maybe this tool could be the base for a future replacement of the catalog tool.
Long story short - let me introduce "Pharo Compendium":
Compendium is a new UI tool to list, browse and load Pharo artefacts from the web like:
- GitHub Projects - Catalog Projects
and other
By default there are two plugin packages available for GitHub and Catalog - but you can implement own ones easily to connect to other sources on the web. Compendium is available on:
https://github.com/astares/Pharo-Compendium
It is implemented using the new Spec2 UI framework - so you need a recent Pharo 9 image to give it a try. Just run:
Metacello new repository: 'github://astares/Pharo-Compendium/src'; baseline: 'Compendium'; load
to load the tool. Then go to "Tools" -> "Compendium Browser". Attached is a screenshot demoing the primary functionality.
If you want your GitHub project to be listed in the tool you simply need to add the topic "pharo" to the GitHub repository on the GitHub webpage.
Feel free to comment or help improving the tool by sending PR's.
Thx T. (aka astares)
<compendium.png>
<Compendium_Spotter.jpg>
Really great tool Torsten :) I tagged some of my repo to test. I reseted the stores because they wasnât showing. It seems to load but then when querying in spotter, I got an error message because of non authentification. I went in in the (iceberg) settings, checked then unchecked the default RSA keys directory (by the way is it a know bug or is it just me ?). It worked after, I mean no error when querying spotter. Still I donât see my projects. Iâll try later but if you have an idea... Cheers, Cédrick
Le 12 mai 2020 à 16:35, Torsten Bergmann <astares@gmx.de> a écrit :
Hi Sven,
I added spotter search now. I prefixed the github spotter entries additionally with the user name (owner). This way you will be able to quickly find tagged public projects by keying in the project and/or username.
See attached picture for an example.
Catalog loading is possible via spotter too.
Have fun T.
Gesendet: Mittwoch, 06. Mai 2020 um 14:24 Uhr Von: "Sven Van Caekenberghe" <sven@stfx.eu> An: "Any question about pharo is welcome" <pharo-users@lists.pharo.org> Betreff: Re: [Pharo-users] [ANN] Pharo Compendium
Great work, Torsten, works like a charm !
Since all Github projects have a README.md maybe that could be used as well, it will certainly contain more information.
Most projects have several keyswords as well, that could be useful to show.
Also, why not add a 'clone & metacello install baseline of' command ?
Another idea: allow spotter searching of the pharo compendium entries ?
Sven
On 2 May 2020, at 22:34, Torsten Bergmann <astares@gmx.de> wrote:
Hi,
time flows and Pharo-Project is improving on all ends since its inception in 2008. As you know over time for the code project hosting we used SqueakSource, SS3 repos and other and later switched to SmalltalkHub available on http://smalltalkhub.com. Starting with Iceberg in Pharo 6 many community projects are now hosted elsewhere - most of them moved to GitHub. Pharo's git support allows also for GitLab, BitBucket and other git hosting services.
I still think easy and quick accessibility to external (re)sources directly from the image is key - especially for new users who often get lost among all the various things that are available. Back in 2013 I therefore provided a small tool called ConfigBrowser as a replacement for MetacelloConfigurationBrowser to easily load Metacello configs directly into Pharo.
Later we improved quick loading with a primary tool called "Catalog" written by Esteban. Catalog is indexing every 24 hours all configs within specific meta-repositories on SmalltalkHub (per Pharo version) like
http://www.smalltalkhub.com/#!/~Pharo/MetaRepoForPharo80
to automatically build
and also a JSON source
http://catalog.pharo.org/catalog/json
The last one feeds the catalog browser and catalog spotter search within the Pharo image.
So Catalog helped us and especially new Pharo users to find what is available as external project or package. Unfortunately some package maintainers are too lazy and do not maintain their configs over old and new Pharo versions. Also SmalltalkHub.com is now seen as legacy and will only be available in a read only mode or as a browseable archive soon.
So we have to think about others steps beyond Catalog and (triggered by a recent discussion on Discord) I started now a simple tool that helped me finding all GitHub projects marked with "pharo" as GitHub topic. I additionally also added previous catalog loading. More sources could be added as well as some kind of custom stores/plugins. Maybe this tool could be the base for a future replacement of the catalog tool.
Long story short - let me introduce "Pharo Compendium":
Compendium is a new UI tool to list, browse and load Pharo artefacts from the web like:
- GitHub Projects - Catalog Projects
and other
By default there are two plugin packages available for GitHub and Catalog - but you can implement own ones easily to connect to other sources on the web. Compendium is available on:
https://github.com/astares/Pharo-Compendium
It is implemented using the new Spec2 UI framework - so you need a recent Pharo 9 image to give it a try. Just run:
Metacello new repository: 'github://astares/Pharo-Compendium/src'; baseline: 'Compendium'; load
to load the tool. Then go to "Tools" -> "Compendium Browser". Attached is a screenshot demoing the primary functionality.
If you want your GitHub project to be listed in the tool you simply need to add the topic "pharo" to the GitHub repository on the GitHub webpage.
Feel free to comment or help improving the tool by sending PR's.
Thx T. (aka astares)
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Hi Cédrick, The GitHub part is based on an open public GitHub HTTP query - which has some limits:  - it does not return private repos, only public ones  - it has a rate limit to not bring servers down Maybe there is a way to overcome these limits via authentication, yes. But most of my projects are public - so for me this was not a problem yet. And the initial idea of Compendium is to find public resources available to all users - not private ones available to single ones.  If time permits I might look into this ... but not now. Bye T. Gesendet: Donnerstag, 14. Mai 2020 um 13:02 Uhr Von: "Cédrick Béler" <cdrick65@gmail.com> An: "Any question about pharo is welcome" <pharo-users@lists.pharo.org> Betreff: Re: [Pharo-users] [ANN] Pharo Compendium Really great tool Torsten :)  I tagged some of my repo to test. I reseted the stores because they wasnât showing. It seems to load but then when querying in spotter, I got an error message because of non authentification.  I went in in the (iceberg) settings, checked then unchecked the default RSA keys directory (by the way is it a know bug or is it just me ?).  It worked after, I mean no error when querying spotter.  Still I donât see my projects. Iâll try later but if you have an idea...   Cheers, Cédrick  Le 12 mai 2020 à 16:35, Torsten Bergmann <astares@gmx.de[mailto:astares@gmx.de]> a écrit : Hi Sven, I added spotter search now. I prefixed the github spotter entries additionally with the user name (owner). This way you will be able to quickly find tagged public projects by keying in the project and/or username. See attached picture for an example. Catalog loading is possible via spotter too. Have fun T.  Gesendet: Mittwoch, 06. Mai 2020 um 14:24 Uhr Von: "Sven Van Caekenberghe" <sven@stfx.eu[mailto:sven@stfx.eu]> An: "Any question about pharo is welcome" <pharo-users@lists.pharo.org[mailto:pharo-users@lists.pharo.org]> Betreff: Re: [Pharo-users] [ANN] Pharo Compendium Great work, Torsten, works like a charm ! Since all Github projects have a README.md maybe that could be used as well, it will certainly contain more information. Most projects have several keyswords as well, that could be useful to show. Also, why not add a 'clone & metacello install baseline of' command ? Another idea: allow spotter searching of the pharo compendium entries ? Sven  On 2 May 2020, at 22:34, Torsten Bergmann <astares@gmx.de[mailto:astares@gmx.de]> wrote: Hi, time flows and Pharo-Project is improving on all ends since its inception in 2008. As you know over time for the code project hosting we used SqueakSource, SS3 repos and other and later switched to SmalltalkHub available on http://smalltalkhub.com[http://smalltalkhub.com]. Starting with Iceberg in Pharo 6 many community projects are now hosted elsewhere - most of them moved to GitHub. Pharo's git support allows also for GitLab, BitBucket and other git hosting services. I still think easy and quick accessibility to external (re)sources directly from the image is key - especially for new users who often get lost among all the various things that are available. Back in 2013 I therefore provided a small tool called ConfigBrowser as a replacement for MetacelloConfigurationBrowser to easily load Metacello configs directly into Pharo. Later we improved quick loading with a primary tool called "Catalog" written by Esteban. Catalog is indexing every 24 hours all configs within specific meta-repositories on SmalltalkHub (per Pharo version) like http://www.smalltalkhub.com/#!/~Pharo/MetaRepoForPharo80[http://www.smalltalkhub.com/#!/~Pharo/MetaRepoForPharo80] to automatically build  http://catalog.pharo.org/[http://catalog.pharo.org/] and also a JSON source  http://catalog.pharo.org/catalog/json[http://catalog.pharo.org/catalog/json] The last one feeds the catalog browser and catalog spotter search within the Pharo image. So Catalog helped us and especially new Pharo users to find what is available as external project or package. Unfortunately some package maintainers are too lazy and do not maintain their configs over old and new Pharo versions. Also SmalltalkHub.com[http://SmalltalkHub.com] is now seen as legacy and will only be available in a read only mode or as a browseable archive soon. So we have to think about others steps beyond Catalog and (triggered by a recent discussion on Discord) I started now a simple tool that helped me finding all GitHub projects marked with "pharo" as GitHub topic. I additionally also added previous catalog loading. More sources could be added as well as some kind of custom stores/plugins. Maybe this tool could be the base for a future replacement of the catalog tool. Long story short - let me introduce "Pharo Compendium": Compendium is a new UI tool to list, browse and load Pharo artefacts from the web like: - GitHub Projects - Catalog Projects and other By default there are two plugin packages available for GitHub and Catalog - but you can implement own ones easily to connect to other sources on the web. Compendium is available on:  https://github.com/astares/Pharo-Compendium[https://github.com/astares/Pharo-Compendium] It is implemented using the new Spec2 UI framework - so you need a recent Pharo 9 image to give it a try. Just run:   Metacello new repository: 'github://astares/Pharo-Compendium/src'; baseline: 'Compendium'; load to load the tool. Then go to "Tools" -> "Compendium Browser". Attached is a screenshot demoing the primary functionality. If you want your GitHub project to be listed in the tool you simply need to add the topic "pharo" to the GitHub repository on the GitHub webpage. Feel free to comment or help improving the tool by sending PR's. Thx T. (aka astares) <compendium.png>  <Compendium_Spotter.jpg>
Hi Torsten,
Hi Cédrick,
The GitHub part is based on an open public GitHub HTTP query - which has some limits: - it does not return private repos, only public ones - it has a rate limit to not bring servers down
Maybe there is a way to overcome these limits via authentication, yes. But most of my projects are public - so for me this was not a problem yet.
I tried with public ones (I donât think I have a private or maybe because I tried once). It seems it was related to my authentification problem. What I did wad adding the « pharo » tag to some project after I loaded and tried Compendium. So the crawler hadnât seen them. Browsing the code, I managed to reset the cache. And then, when typing my GitHub name (cdrick65), it started downloading stuff but wasnât showing anything after. Iâll try again in a new image.
And the initial idea of Compendium is to find public resources available to all users - not private ones available to single ones.
If time permits I might look into this ... but not now.
No hurry ;), already a great tool to load packages ! I love it. What would be great is to access a summary info (the readme.md ?) and show for instance in the spotter search (but no hurry too). And as time allows, Iâll surely try to hack it because possibilities are endless :) Cheers, Cédrick
Bye T.
Gesendet: Donnerstag, 14. Mai 2020 um 13:02 Uhr Von: "Cédrick Béler" <cdrick65@gmail.com <mailto:cdrick65@gmail.com>> An: "Any question about pharo is welcome" <pharo-users@lists.pharo.org <mailto:pharo-users@lists.pharo.org>> Betreff: Re: [Pharo-users] [ANN] Pharo Compendium
Really great tool Torsten :)
I tagged some of my repo to test. I reseted the stores because they wasnât showing. It seems to load but then when querying in spotter, I got an error message because of non authentification.
I went in in the (iceberg) settings, checked then unchecked the default RSA keys directory (by the way is it a know bug or is it just me ?).
It worked after, I mean no error when querying spotter.
Still I donât see my projects. Iâll try later but if you have an idea...
Cheers, Cédrick
Le 12 mai 2020 à 16:35, Torsten Bergmann <astares@gmx.de <mailto:astares@gmx.de>[mailto:astares@gmx.de <mailto:astares@gmx.de>]> a écrit :
Hi Sven,
I added spotter search now. I prefixed the github spotter entries additionally with the user name (owner). This way you will be able to quickly find tagged public projects by keying in the project and/or username.
See attached picture for an example.
Catalog loading is possible via spotter too.
Have fun T. Gesendet: Mittwoch, 06. Mai 2020 um 14:24 Uhr Von: "Sven Van Caekenberghe" <sven@stfx.eu <mailto:sven@stfx.eu>[mailto:sven@stfx.eu <mailto:sven@stfx.eu>]> An: "Any question about pharo is welcome" <pharo-users@lists.pharo.org <mailto:pharo-users@lists.pharo.org>[mailto:pharo-users@lists.pharo.org <mailto:pharo-users@lists.pharo.org>]> Betreff: Re: [Pharo-users] [ANN] Pharo Compendium
Great work, Torsten, works like a charm !
Since all Github projects have a README.md maybe that could be used as well, it will certainly contain more information.
Most projects have several keyswords as well, that could be useful to show.
Also, why not add a 'clone & metacello install baseline of' command ?
Another idea: allow spotter searching of the pharo compendium entries ?
Sven On 2 May 2020, at 22:34, Torsten Bergmann <astares@gmx.de <mailto:astares@gmx.de>[mailto:astares@gmx.de <mailto:astares@gmx.de>]> wrote:
Hi,
time flows and Pharo-Project is improving on all ends since its inception in 2008. As you know over time for the code project hosting we used SqueakSource, SS3 repos and other and later switched to SmalltalkHub available on http://smalltalkhub.com[http://smalltalkhub.com <http://smalltalkhub.com[http://smalltalkhub.com>]. Starting with Iceberg in Pharo 6 many community projects are now hosted elsewhere - most of them moved to GitHub. Pharo's git support allows also for GitLab, BitBucket and other git hosting services.
I still think easy and quick accessibility to external (re)sources directly from the image is key - especially for new users who often get lost among all the various things that are available. Back in 2013 I therefore provided a small tool called ConfigBrowser as a replacement for MetacelloConfigurationBrowser to easily load Metacello configs directly into Pharo.
Later we improved quick loading with a primary tool called "Catalog" written by Esteban. Catalog is indexing every 24 hours all configs within specific meta-repositories on SmalltalkHub (per Pharo version) like
http://www.smalltalkhub.com/#!/~Pharo/MetaRepoForPharo80[http://www.smalltalkhub.com/#!/~Pharo/MetaRepoForPharo80 <http://www.smalltalkhub.com/#!/~Pharo/MetaRepoForPharo80[http://www.smalltalkhub.com/#!/~Pharo/MetaRepoForPharo80>]
to automatically build
http://catalog.pharo.org/[http://catalog.pharo.org/ <http://catalog.pharo.org/[http://catalog.pharo.org/>]
and also a JSON source
http://catalog.pharo.org/catalog/json[http://catalog.pharo.org/catalog/json <http://catalog.pharo.org/catalog/json[http://catalog.pharo.org/catalog/json>]
The last one feeds the catalog browser and catalog spotter search within the Pharo image.
So Catalog helped us and especially new Pharo users to find what is available as external project or package. Unfortunately some package maintainers are too lazy and do not maintain their configs over old and new Pharo versions. Also SmalltalkHub.com <http://smalltalkhub.com/>[http://SmalltalkHub.com <http://smalltalkhub.com/>] is now seen as legacy and will only be available in a read only mode or as a browseable archive soon.
So we have to think about others steps beyond Catalog and (triggered by a recent discussion on Discord) I started now a simple tool that helped me finding all GitHub projects marked with "pharo" as GitHub topic. I additionally also added previous catalog loading. More sources could be added as well as some kind of custom stores/plugins. Maybe this tool could be the base for a future replacement of the catalog tool.
Long story short - let me introduce "Pharo Compendium":
Compendium is a new UI tool to list, browse and load Pharo artefacts from the web like:
- GitHub Projects - Catalog Projects
and other
By default there are two plugin packages available for GitHub and Catalog - but you can implement own ones easily to connect to other sources on the web. Compendium is available on:
https://github.com/astares/Pharo-Compendium[https://github.com/astares/Pharo-Compendium <https://github.com/astares/Pharo-Compendium[https://github.com/astares/Pharo-Compendium>]
It is implemented using the new Spec2 UI framework - so you need a recent Pharo 9 image to give it a try. Just run:
Metacello new repository: 'github://astares/Pharo-Compendium/src'; baseline: 'Compendium'; load
to load the tool. Then go to "Tools" -> "Compendium Browser". Attached is a screenshot demoing the primary functionality.
If you want your GitHub project to be listed in the tool you simply need to add the topic "pharo" to the GitHub repository on the GitHub webpage.
Feel free to comment or help improving the tool by sending PR's.
Thx T. (aka astares)
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participants (6)
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Cédrick Béler -
Esteban Maringolo -
Gabriel Cotelli -
Stéphane Ducasse -
Sven Van Caekenberghe -
Torsten Bergmann