Squeak-dev March 2006

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TestServer
by Nicolas Melin 08 Mar '06

08 Mar '06

http://testserver.smallhosting.info (actually, it's not quite finished, consider it as a demo ;)) The test process is: - launch a new Squeak image - run all tests, save the results, trash the image - display the results using Seaside We plan to add the possibility to run specific tests, adding or removing tests or packages, etc. Do you have any ideas or suggestions to improve the test server? If you need specific features, I would be glad to implement them (if I can ;-) The current requests are: - Send test results by e-mail - RSS feeds

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[BUG] [FIX] Workaround for sound recording in OSS/ALSA/Linux
by Diego Gomez Deck 08 Mar '06

08 Mar '06

Hi, This changeset provides a workaround to the old and well known problem trying to save sound using OSS emulation on top of ALSA for Linux boxes. I tried it in every platform I can (windows and linux) and it works fine, BTW more testing on more platforms are needed. Cheers, -- Diego

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[Q] Squeak feature bounties
by Russell Allen 08 Mar '06

08 Mar '06

Hi, I've been a lurker and user of Squeak since the 1.x days, and have built up a large list of small and large changes and features I would like to see made available in Squeak. I simply do not have the time nor the necessary skills to implement my wishlist. I suspect many people are the same. I have been thinking lately about Software Bounties. Increasingly, large open source projects are providing mechanisms for people to put up a bounty for a particular feature - the first person to implement the feature gets the bounty. The feature is then made available to everyone under the standard open source licence. Examples: * http://www.gnome.org/bounties/ * http://www.ubuntu.com/developers/bounties * http://bountycounty.org/ The bounties aren't equivalent to the commercial cost of writing the software, so it is not a straight forward case of hiring a programmer. Bounties can range from the simple to the economically sophisticated (http://www.marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolution/2005/05/assurance_cont…, http://www.fundable.org/). I suspect that the success of a Squeak bounty would depend on the available excess of programming 'capital' (ie, how many Squeakers have free time and inclination to step up and develop). I don't know how much free resources the community has. Although I am sadly not a billionare like Mark Shuttleworth :) I am prepared to put some money at least where my mouth is if I thought it would work. What are the opinions of the people on this list? Best wishes, Russell mail(a)russell-allen.com

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Candidate platforms?
by Daniel Vainsencher 08 Mar '06

08 Mar '06

Dear SqF board candidates. While we know all of you to some extent (some more than others), we dont know you as elected representatives. If you can write a few words about what goals the board should accomplish, and how you're going to help those happen, it would be helpful for at least this Squeaker in his difficult decisions ahead... Daniel Vainsencher

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Squeak Chat Sunday March 12th 12:00 GMT
by Ken Causey 08 Mar '06

08 Mar '06

Just a reminder that the next Squeak Chat will take place between 12:00 (Noon) and 16:00 (4 PM) GMT Sunday March 12th, 2006. As usual we will meet in #squeak on irc.freenode.net. More information about the #squeak IRC channel can be found at http://people.squeakfoundation.org/article/7.html This is a good time to contribute to the development of Squeak by participating in the Harvesting Process. One of the main ways to contribute is by Reviewing submitted fixes and enhancements. For information about the Harvesting Process see http://minnow.cc.gatech.edu/squeak/3152 If you have the time please attend and work toward the future of Squeak. The next seven chats are scheduled for 16:00 (04:00 PM) GMT Thursday March 16, 2006 20:00 (08:00 PM) GMT Monday March 20, 2006 00:00 (12:00 AM) GMT Saturday March 25, 2006 04:00 (04:00 AM) GMT Wednesday March 29, 2006 08:00 (08:00 AM) GMT Sunday April 02, 2006 12:00 (12:00 PM) GMT Thursday April 06, 2006 16:00 (04:00 PM) GMT Monday April 10, 2006

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Re: Squeak for "profesional" games
by Lord ZealoN 08 Mar '06

08 Mar '06

Nobody has something to say? Hi, i wanna start a project with a friend. > > This project will be a mmorpg (Musive Multiplayer Online Roleplaying game) > and we have some questions. > > WE thought do it with php and mysql, but this system has limitations (3D > for > example). > > Now, i'm thinking in squeak (i'm learning it, and thinking in her object > reuse) and, here are my questions and the introduction for the questions. > > Imagine, The game will be like a Town (for example). But each neighbor is > a > real guy (100 guys connected at the same time for example) with which you > can chat, interact, take a walk, pilot an airplane etc... > > Now the questions > > Squeak > - Squeak has a good continous develop? New features, velocity, etc..... > -Squeak is focused only for educational app's? or for normal/profesional > use? > > Game > - Is factible do a game with this characteristics in squeak? > > Graphics > - How works squeak with 3D graphics? > > - Exists any engine like crystalspace3D or Ogre for games? (load MD2 > files, > terrain, ODE etc..) > > - Is possible do a 3Dgame in squeak? > > Network > - This game will be only online. Is factible the use of Seaside for do the > game for web? > > - Will be Better a "squeak server"? Will be better use squeak plugin for > browsers? > > - With squeak and seaside you can have sessions etc.. like PHP? > > The game will be for a friends and me, but, if the result is good, we will > think sell it. > > In other thinks, we are thinking develop in amateur level, but with > profesional level if is possible. > > Well, this is all at the moment, thanks a lot, and sorry for this maill > too > large and for my bad english-google-language-tools. > Cheers.

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Testing Heap
by Nicolas Melin 08 Mar '06

08 Mar '06

Heap class comments say : Class Heap implements a special data structure commonly referred to as 'heap'. Heaps are more efficient than SortedCollections if: a) Elements are only removed at the beginning b) Elements are added with arbitrary sort order. The sort time for a heap is O(n log n) in all cases. I'm not sure I understand the comment: is Heap actually supposed to sort items, independently of the adding order ? I'm trying to do this: (Heap withAll: #(1 3 5 7 11 9 10)) and the result is: a Heap(1 3 5 7 11 9 10)

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RE: Box-Admins Team Report for February, 2006
by Peter Crowther 08 Mar '06

08 Mar '06

> From: Marcus Denker > A real legal entity... but that's some work. Indeed. It includes such interesting questions as deciding where such a legal entity should be set up, and hence under which country's legal framework it should operate. That question alone can occupy a considerable amount of time. - Peter

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Box-Admins Team Report for February, 2006
by Ken Causey 08 Mar '06

08 Mar '06

The box-admins team is reponsible for seeing that the community shared server is maintained and setting up any new features to be hosted on that server. In February we setup a new UK Smalltalk mailing list at Bryce Kampjes' request. http://lists.squeakfoundation.org/mailman/listinfo/uksmalltalk We had to restart source.squeakfoundation.org a couple of times. On another occasion the box mysteriously restarted and many of the Squeak process had to be manually restarted since we had never gotten around to setting them up under any init system. The FTP daemon also failed to start and had to be manually started. A location was setup for Exupery related files on the FTP server. An account was created for the News team to develop a website for the management of the Weekly Squeak News. I want to thank the community for the monetary support needed to fund these boxes and remind them that the bills continue to appear and that you can currently contribute to the hosting bills by going to http://discuss.squeakfoundation.org/ and clicking on the 'donate' button at the top right. Note that a donation here may be used for other Squeak Foundation services including but not limited to development, development infrastructure, and promotion of Squeak. The services being hosted have continued to grow and include (but are not limited to): http://www.squeak.org/ SqueakMap - http://map.squeak.org/ http://ftp.squeak.org/ http://lists.squeakfoundation.org/ http://discuss.squeakfoundation.org/ http://source.squeakfoundation.org/ http://map.squeak.org/ and DNS services for squeak.org and squeakfoundation.org domain names. Ken

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Election Team February Report
by Brent Vukmer 08 Mar '06

08 Mar '06

The big event in February was the actual election :) The election was run using the CIVS software and went fairly smoothly. The new board members are in. Several people have commented that the election process seemed rushed; the Election Team will work to make it less rushed next time. Other suggestions for improvements to the process are welcome. Finally, I've stepped down as team lead; Daniel Vainsencher is now the head of the Election Team. Thanks, Brent

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