Squeak-dev March 2008

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Problem with SqueakGtk
by Gwenaël Casaccio 07 Apr '08

07 Apr '08

Hi, I've a problem when I try to build squeak gtk, the configure script (in the squeak-vm source) detect Gtk but the Makefile for the SqueakGtk plugin is not created ... Do you have any idea of the problem ? Gwenael

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Problems installing FFI on 3.10 release
by Igor Stasenko 07 Apr '08

07 Apr '08

Anyone tried to install subject onto fresh 3.10 image? It stops with error, trying to react on class change notification, while it's own internal structures still not initialized (StructTypes classvar). Seem like a simple order of initialization bug. -- Best regards, Igor Stasenko AKA sig.

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Pier demo of squeak.org ready
by Lukas Renggli 03 Apr '08

03 Apr '08

I prepared a quick demo of the Squeak web site using Pier. My thanks go to Danie and Karl, that provided me with the old image to migrate the content. I did not adapt the CSS or the components of the page yet, what you see is as Pier comes after the installation. As I mentioned there are dozens of plugins ready that can be placed at any part of the web-site: http://squeak.lukas-renggli.ch The password for an admin users with (almost all privileges) is: demo/demo The design can be adapted when editing the "Environment" page. Some system settings are available in "System". Also try the HTML validator (note that some other pages fail to validate, but that's because of some invalid hand crafted HTML in the contents pages): http://validator.w3.org/check?uri=http%3A%2F%2Fsqueak.lukas-renggli.ch Cheers, Lukas -- Lukas Renggli http://www.lukas-renggli.ch

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OmniBase/Magma - how big??
by Bill Schwab 02 Apr '08

02 Apr '08

Hello all, Any success or horror stories with OmniBase and/or Magma? Can you report that either worked well at or got into trouble beyond any particular size (either in object count or bytes of data)? Other comments? 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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The Old Man
by Marcus Denker 01 Apr '08

01 Apr '08

"One of the sad memories of my life is a visit to the celebrated mathematician and inventor, Mr Babbage. He was far advanced in age, but his mind was still as vigorous as ever. He took me through his work-rooms. In the first room I saw parts of the original Calculating Machine, which had been shown in an incomplete state many years before and had even been put to some use. I asked him about its present form. 'I have not finished it because in working at it I came on the idea of my Analytical Machine, which would do all that it was capable of doing and much more. Indeed, the idea was so much simpler that it would have taken more work to complete the Calculating Machine than to design and construct the other in its entirety, so I turned my attention to the Analytical Machine.'" "After a few minutes' talk, we went into the next work-room, where he showed and explained to me the working of the elements of the Analytical Machine. I asked if I could see it. 'I have never completed it,' he said, 'because I hit upon an idea of doing the same thing by a different and far more effective method, and this rendered it useless to proceed on the old lines.' Then we went into the third room. There lay scattered bits of mechanism, but I saw no trace of any working machine. Very cautiously I approached the subject, and received the dreaded answer, 'It is not constructed yet, but I am working on it, and it will take less time to construct it altogether than it would have token to complete the Analytical Machine from the stage in which I left it.' I took leave of the old man with a heavy heart." -- Lord Moulton -- Marcus Denker -- denker(a)iam.unibe.ch http://www.iam.unibe.ch/~denker

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Installer bug?
by Igor Stasenko 31 Mar '08

31 Mar '08

Hello, i'm trying to create new install script for Gjallar on 3.10 I found, that with latest Installer version a commands like: Installer websqueakmap install: 'Shout'; install: 'DynamicBindings'. not working. In method #addPackage: it assumes that packages are OrderedCollection. But after first #install: , installer replacing it with Dictionary instead, so at next #install: it throws an error. I am missing something? Is given cascade sends still supported by installer, or i should write it differently? -- Best regards, Igor Stasenko AKA sig.

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About squeak mac vm
by stephane ducasse 31 Mar '08

31 Mar '08

Hi john I got a following behavior (while been in the train = no net connection). I tried to load a squeakmap package and I press on apple - . after a while I got a wallback window. then I could only move the apple window containing squeak is strange and extremely slow way. I had to kill it. At the same time I got some other Squeak running well and which with I could interact well and moving the mac ain window. I use 3.9.1 (in fact exactly sapphire-... Sapphire0.1-10016-2008-03-22 (which is based on 3.9.1) and is available at http://sapphire.gforge.inria.fr/ and the VM 3.8.18beta1U The bad news is that of course I could not reproduce it :( Stef

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Re: [squeak-dev] The Old Man
by Andres Valloud 31 Mar '08

31 Mar '08

Jecel, Perhaps what made it more difficult is that Mr. Babbage appears to have had no close partners in his work? For example, could we say something of value about Leibniz and his automaton, had we casually met him in the 1600s? Andres. Jecel Assumpcao Jr wrote: > Mr Babbage's personality, though the cause of the problem that left Lord > Moulton so sad, was also the very thing that allowed such fantastic > projects to be attempted at all. I see such "defects" in myself and > personally know a couple more people like that. I also know a few more > who see themselves as misunderstood geniuses but who are really plain > crazy. Hardly anybody seems to be able to tell them apart. > > -- Jecel > > >

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Squeaksource seems to be down...
by Hilaire Fernandes 31 Mar '08

31 Mar '08

Hilaire

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Lukas' code critics & other goodies on OB
by itsme213 31 Mar '08

31 Mar '08

Where can I find the OB-based code-critics/rewiter/searcher goodies shown on Lukas' blog http://www.lukas-renggli.ch/blog? Which image + OB/other packages do I need to load first? Many thanks, Sophie

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