Squeak-dev March 2008

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Squeak VM port for Nintendo DS
by Pablo Oliveira 05 Mar '08

05 Mar '08

Hi, I've ported the Squeak VM to the Nintendo DS. Sources and some details are available at: http://www.sifflez.org/squeak_nds/ Comments and bug reports are most welcome. Kind Regards, -- Pablo Oliveira.

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Smacc and CPD
by Davide Falzoni 05 Mar '08

05 Mar '08

Hi Folks! I'm trying to build a light version of a copy/paste detector (see http://pmd.sourceforge.net/cpd.html) in Squeak (for malltalk code), but I'm a novice in using Smacc, can you point me in the right direction or show me if there are similar projects developed by the Squeak community? Thanks Davide --------------------------------- Never miss a thing. Make Yahoo your homepage.

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How to catch #inform: messages?
by Damien Cassou 05 Mar '08

05 Mar '08

Hi, I would like to catch calls to (UIManager default inform:) to automatically click ok. I'm trying: [UIManager default inform: 'truc'] valueSuppressingMessages: #('truc'). without success. Can somebody help me please? -- Damien Cassou

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Bob's SuperSwiki still down. Anybody know why?
by Jerome Peace 05 Mar '08

05 Mar '08

Hi all, I reported to the squeak-dev list a while back. http://lists.squeakfoundation.org/pipermail/squeak-dev/2008-February/125968… The super swiki seems to have gone offline. I am tring to find out if this is a temporary outage or an actual death. I had been using it to store some project work so I need to know what happened/is happening, Thanks for your help, --Jerome Peace ____________________________________________________________________________________ Be a better friend, newshound, and know-it-all with Yahoo! Mobile. Try it now. http://mobile.yahoo.com/;_ylt=Ahu06i62sR8HDtDypao8Wcj9tAcJ

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Rosetta, SIF, etc. - is there current best choice?
by Bill Schwab 05 Mar '08

05 Mar '08

Hello all, Is there a clear winner for getting code out of other dialects (specifically Dolphin) and into Squeak? Bill Wilhelm K. Schwab, Ph.D. University of Florida Department of Anesthesiology PO Box 100254 Gainesville, FL 32610-0254 Email: bschwab(a)anest.ufl.edu Tel: (352) 846-1285 FAX: (352) 392-7029

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Re: [squeak-dev] 3.10 Dev - Unable to load VMMaker 3.8b6.1
by Ken G. Brown 05 Mar '08

05 Mar '08

At 4:00 AM -0800 3/4/08, squeak-dev-request(a)lists.squeakfoundation.org apparently wrote: >Date: Tue, 4 Mar 2008 10:20:11 +0100 >From: "Damien Cassou" <damien.cassou(a)gmail.com> >Subject: Re: [squeak-dev] 3.10 Dev - Unable to load VMMaker 3.8b6.1 > from Universes >To: "The general-purpose Squeak developers list" > <squeak-dev(a)lists.squeakfoundation.org> >Message-ID: > <6ac749c10803040120l1de77e7cw5e9cbb59fccd5d88(a)mail.gmail.com> >Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 > >On Mon, Mar 3, 2008 at 11:29 PM, Ken G. Brown <kbrown(a)mac.com> wrote: >> At 2:06 PM -0800 3/3/08, squeak-dev-request(a)lists.squeakfoundation.org apparently wrote: >> >Date: Mon, 3 Mar 2008 19:56:17 +0100 >> >> >From: "Damien Cassou" <damien.cassou(a)gmail.com> >> >Subject: Re: [squeak-dev] 3.10 Dev - Unable to load VMMaker 3.8b6.1 >> > from Universes >> >To: "The general-purpose Squeak developers list" >> > <squeak-dev(a)lists.squeakfoundation.org> >> >Message-ID: >> > <6ac749c10803031056y630c04c4s7f2953f92d40b69a(a)mail.gmail.com> >> >> >Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 >> > >> >> >> >On Fri, Feb 29, 2008 at 5:38 PM, Ken G. Brown <kbrown(a)mac.com> wrote: >> >> Now trying again, in a fresh sq3.10-7159dev08.02.1 when I very carefully only do the following: >> >> - Open Universe Browser (enhanced), >> >> - then do 'update list from network' (I see the progress indicator), >> >> - then select VMMaker 3.8b6.1, (some descriptive text shows up) >> > >> > >> >- then right click on 3.8b6.1 and 'select this version'. >> > >> > >> >> - then 'install selection', nothing happens at all. >> > >> >- then, you get a debugger :-) > >Right clicking on the version number or the package does not display a menu? > > >-- >Damien Cassou Ok, option-clicking on the version number (after initially clicking it which changes its color looking like it has been selected) pops up a 'select' menu which if executed, makes the Install button work starting the loading of FFI, then the debugger. The Mantis 6952 "at: cls name ifAbsent:" eror fix, does not allow FFI to load either at this point. Same deal with the sq3.10-7159dev08.03.1 image. Ken G. Brown

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Looking for Andreas's Squeak History
by Ken G. Brown 05 Mar '08

05 Mar '08

Try the wayback machine: <http://web.archive.org/web/*/http://isgwww.cs.uni-magdeburg.de/~raab/squeak…> Ken G. Brown At 3:39 PM -0800 3/4/08, squeak-dev-request(a)lists.squeakfoundation.org apparently wrote: >Date: Tue, 4 Mar 2008 12:25:14 -0700 >From: Matthew Fulmer <tapplek(a)gmail.com> >Subject: [squeak-dev] Looking for Andreas's Squeak History (was Re: > Notes from Release Team meeting 2) >To: squeak-dev(a)lists.squeakfoundation.org >Message-ID: <20080304192513.GQ5358@tacobell> >Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii > >On Tue, Mar 04, 2008 at 04:42:47PM +0100, Michael Rueger wrote: >>> Andreas collected all prior releases somewhere. Where is it? See this >>> note. Based on the 3.6 reference, Matthew unsucessfully searched the >>> list archives between June 2003 and April 2004 >> >> http://lists.squeakfoundation.org/pipermail/squeak-dev/2004-May/077997.html >> >> The location referenced there is gone, don't know if it available somewhere >> else now. > >Anyone know where this is? The cited URLs are: >Original: http://isgwww.cs.uni-magdeburg.de/~raab/squeak/history >Mirror: http://sts.tuwien.ac.at/go/Squeak/History/ >Neither work anymore. > >-- >Matthew Fulmer -- http://mtfulmer.wordpress.com/ >Help improve Squeak Documentation: http://wiki.squeak.org/squeak/808

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Craig's 2008 campaign platform
by Craig Latta 04 Mar '08

04 Mar '08

(from [1]) Hi-- My first priority is to finish putting the Squeak project on a solid legal footing. Through membership in the Software Freedom Conservancy, the project will be able to receive tax-exempt donations. We can use that money to fund our infrastructure (e.g., servers and connectivity), as well as system development and outreach. I have been working with the Conservancy toward our membership, and would like to see this to completion. With the initial Squeak release now available under a common open-source license, and agreements from most of our contributors, the most pressing task is to make a new release composed entirely of appropriately-licensed material. I would like to choose and lead a release team to accomplish this task. I think we should also take this opportunity to create the next major release, Squeak 4. It is long past time that we incorporate several major improvements to the system, and make real progress in modularity. We've had regular leadership elections for three years now; this is a very good thing. So far, though, I don't think the elections have resulted in clear technical mandates, mostly because the candidates haven't advocated strong technical positions. In my own case, I've been hesitant to advocate my own modularity work[2] when running for the board, because I haven't finished implementing it. I think we need a mandate now with regard to modularity, so that we can keep the releases well-organized in the future after going to the trouble of our relicensing effort. Let's turn our attention to Squeak 4 now. Let's create a kernel with nothing extraneous in it, and a module system we can use to keep the organization clear. I think the result will be much easier to learn, and far more pleasant to use. Getting there will be difficult, but it will be worth it. Please do contact me with any questions or feedback. thanks! Craig Latta -- [1] http://people.squeakfoundation.org/article/82.html [2] http://netjam.org/spoon

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Re: Using SQLite3 package
by iansimpson＠freenet.co.uk 04 Mar '08

04 Mar '08

I had a similar problem. What I did was place the sqlite.dll in the same directory as the .image file and changed SqliteLibrary>>moduleName to return the correct library file name: SqliteLibrary>>moduleName ^ 'sqlite3.dll'. Hope this helps

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Re: [squeak-dev] Copying a file from Squeak on Linux
by Bill Schwab 04 Mar '08

04 Mar '08

Bert, My image reports its #vmPath as: /usr/local/lib/squeak/3.9-8/ and looking there, I see the vm and some plugins. Is being in that directory enough, or is there something else I have to do to get it to see and/or report a plugin's existence? Are they loaded at startup, only on demand, etc.? >From my feeble experiments, I'm guessing that it is on demand. I became curious over the DES plugin, which I now appear to have working. To get there, I grabbed the plugin from http://wiki.squeak.org/squeak/2410 and then saved it as both /usr/local/lib/squeak/3.9-8/DESPlugin /usr/local/lib/squeak/3.9-8/DESPrims.so Not quite knowing what I was doing (make that being completely clueless), I am not sure which one made it work. Any ideas? The DESPlugin class comment includes: You should build this plugin with the module name 'DESPrims'. and adding the .so seemed like might be a good idea. Does the plugin load code try/ignore that extension? Thanks, Bill ========================== Bert Freudenberg <bert@...>bert@... wrote: Also, #listBuiltinModules will list the plugins compiled into the VM. There is no similar call for external plugins, but these you can see in the files system yourself. - Bert - Wilhelm K. Schwab, Ph.D. University of Florida Department of Anesthesiology PO Box 100254 Gainesville, FL 32610-0254 Email: bschwab(a)anest.ufl.edu Tel: (352) 846-1285 FAX: (352) 392-7029

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