Pharo mailing list weekly summary #5
Written on March 12 2011.
This blog post was written a long time ago and may not reflect my current opinion or might be technically out of date. Read with a grain of salt.
Once again, the week was very busy in the Pharo mailing list. It seems that Pharo 1.2 release is imminent. I skipped a massive amount of threads in this summary. If I removed something important for you, just shout and I’ll edit this post.
Next week, the Pharo mailing list weekly summary will move to the official Pharo website. Yeah !
Events
- Deep into Smalltalk took place this week, about 45 people attended. It seems that Mariano enjoyed it very much! Presentation slides are available and courses were recorded. Videos are not there yet but I’ll update this post as soon as they are.
Announcements
Doru announced the Glamorous Tool Project. The goald is to build a set of Smalltalk development tools based on Glamour. Is this the future of Pharo development tools ? full thread.
There is now an issue tracker for Cog. full thread
Esteban released a new Cocoa VM: 5.7.4.1. This is a non Cog VM. This release adds no feature but small steps are better than big jumps. full thread
Umezawa-san told us that SIXX now works on Pharo 1.2 and Squeak 4.2. full thread
InterpretorSimulator is now working with the latest images. Pavel warned us that it is far from perfect that it should work with small headless images. full thread
Benjamin built a new Morphic widget: “SwitchableTreeWidget”. It should works fine on Pharo 1.2 (expect problems with 1.3). Load it and tell him what you think. full thread
Discussions
There are some discussions about using the SqueakSSL plugin with Pharo. That would help to use HTTPS. At the moment, stunnel is a possible solution. full thread
There are plans to bring Pharo in the Apple Store. The discussion moved to Apple vs the rest of the world and the future of computing and licensing questions. full thread
Hilaire asked how to get bigger cursor in Pharo. Apparently Torsten has worked on this. full threads here and there
Laurent is doing TDD for GUI development. There are no special tools for this and Laurent struggled a bit with `#visible` which always returns true. Ben showed the trick to detect if a window is closed. full thread
Stef tried to install OSProcess in his image and ran into trouble. Beware that you need a VM with the OSProcess plugin. full thread
Alexandre explained different solution on how to run Smalltalk in a web browser.full thread
Hilaire ran into trouble when installing DejaVuBitmapFonts on Pharo core 1.3. Fernando shared the snippet he uses. full thread
Problems with the integration process and the Hudson server for 1.2. The Great and Perfect Release Cycle is not an easy goal. full thread
That’s all folks, see you next week !