Squeak-dev May 2008

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hydra mac vm update
by John M McIntosh 08 May '08

08 May '08

Ok, a bit more progress. There is still quite a few things to puzzle out. I don't want to pound the VM with a ticker update every millisecond. I don't have a nice way to schedule a wakeup event sometime in the future by using some generic pthread service. I therefore re-implemented the logic that clock checks every message send and backward jump to check the current time and consider the next wakeup time. Likely we'll have to tune this, or perhaps 0.5% of run time devoted to looking at the clock is just good enough programming. Given all that I'm still dealing with having the second instance of the interpreter unlock the global vm logic so plugins can load in a clean manner. I did stick in a change where it does halt the 2nd instance when there is no squeak process runnable and no pending Delay but that isn't a correct solution. However I now am at the point where I can do HydraVM loadAndRunNewImage: 'test.image' HydraVM doIt: 'Transcript show: 10000 factorial' at: 2 Which then prints a really big number, later. I can of course interact with the main interpreter instance, and also do the 10000 factorial, which then makes my machine run at 200% cpu and whirl the fans to high. Going forward I need some folks who can compile the VM and do some testing. Also I still have to do a sanity check and review all the global & static variable usage in the mac specific code, and the drawing isn't correct, menu's get drawn with full transparency. -- = = = ======================================================================== John M. McIntosh <johnmci(a)smalltalkconsulting.com> Corporate Smalltalk Consulting Ltd. http://www.smalltalkconsulting.com = = = ========================================================================

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Better order & information exchange (Was: Re: [squeak-dev] [ANN] A new anniversary without 3.10)
by Igor Stasenko 08 May '08

08 May '08

I think this is more social issue. I doubt that this fix was rejected instead of just simply got unnoticed by release team. We need to be more organized. We need a common workplace where one can draw on the board, while others can leave comments or put suggestions. The release team members should pay more attention how to make their progress more open and publicly available. The current release process, how i see it, lacks centralized bottleneck, where all things were filtered and accepted or rejected , and immediately announced to public. For the people, who not involved directly in release process, many things remain mystery, and they don't have an easy way how to let one of release team members know about issues and to draw their attention. They barely can know why or when people take look on a different issue, or did they took a look at all. Mantis regardless of how good it is, seems not fit good for current release process, otherwise we would not have such problems, isn't? 2008/5/7 Keith Hodges <keith_hodges(a)yahoo.co.uk>: > Edgar J. De Cleene wrote: > > > I announce today 3.10 pass another month into Limbo. > > > > > > > but DateAndTime now seconds still returns a fraction. > > who abandoned who? > > Keith > > > -- Best regards, Igor Stasenko AKA sig.

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Reminder hackontest.ch: What feature would you like to see in Squeak/Etoys/Scratch/OpenCroquet/Seaside/Sophie/...?
by Markus Gälli 07 May '08

07 May '08

Hi folks as I pointed out earlier I've registered Squeak on http://www.hackontest.ch "Can you code 24 hours non-stop? Hackontest is a new Google-sponsored 24-hour programming competition between different open source projects. Its goals are to enhance Free Software projects according to user needs and to make visible how enthusiastically open source software is being developed. During the current online selection process users and developers of open source software may submit feature requests and rate and comment them. On August 1st, 2008 the Hackontest jury will pick the three most promising teams. Each team will receive a free trip to Switzerland on September 24/25, 2008 to participate in the competition located in Zurich. Hacking 24 hours inside an etoy.CONTAINER, the teams and their virtually present communities will implement certain features based on the online ratings and jury selection. In the end, the Hackontest jury evaluates the code and awards the winners with a total of USD 8500. The jury is made up of 10 renowned open source contributors: Jeremy Alison (Samba), Jono Bacon (Ubuntu), Brian W. Fitzpatrick (Subversion), Martin F. Krafft (Debian), Alexander Limi (Plone), Federico Mena- Quintero (GNOME), Bram Moolenaar (vim), Bruce Perens (OSI founder), Lukas K. Smith (PHP) and Harald Welte (gpl-violations.org)." For a more detailed description what hackontest is about see the "word from the sponsor" at http://google-opensource.blogspot.com/2008/05/happy-hacking-real- time.html It is absolutely ok to register the requests you yourself would like to work on. So please feel very free to - register on http://www.hackontest.ch (make sure to press the submit/ login buttons, simple enter did not work for me), - add you favorite project to Squeak - and start rating. I think having some feature requests there would also help us to advertise for "All things Squeak" in general. Cheers Markus p.s. We definitely should have some Etoy related project, as the event will be hosted by the art group called Etoy.com :-) http://etoy.com/blog/archive/2008/04/22/etoy-got-slash-dotted.html

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Box-Admins Team Report for April, 2008
by Ken Causey 07 May '08

07 May '08

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. For April, 2008: Minor maintenance went on as usual but nothing of particular note took place. Note that the box-admins mailing list archive is open for viewing so if you are interested in the details you can always looks there. I want to thank the community for the monetary support needed to fund the box and remind them that the bills continue to appear and that you can currently contribute to the hosting bills by going to http://www.squeak.org/Foundation/SupportSqueak/ and purchasing a Squeak badge. 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/ https://svn.squeak.org/ http://update.squeakfoundation.org/ http://wiki.squeak.org/ http://bugs.squeak.org/ and DNS services for squeak.org and squeakfoundation.org domain names. Ken

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Problem with OBPackageBrowser
by Esteban Lorenzano 07 May '08

07 May '08

Hi, I don't know if this belongs to this list, but I don't know of any other where I can get help on this. I'm having different behaivor between OBSystemBrowser and OBPackageBrowser, in this case: OBSystemBrowser new open; jumpTo: (OBClassCategoryNode on: 'Sushimoto') This works fine, but: OBPackageBrowser new open; jumpTo: (OBClassCategoryNode on: 'Sushimoto') Throws a DNU #isDescendantOfClass: in #isAncestorOf:using: I'm using lates OmniBrowser-Full (0.25) from Universes in a 3.10 image. Thanks for any help, Esteban

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Squeak logo refreshing (was: [squeak-dev] Reminder hackontest.ch)
by cdrick 07 May '08

07 May '08

I'm sorry to open this thread again... but seeing the page of hackontest ( http://www.hackontest.ch/)...and all other open source logo.. I find squeak a bit outdated and this contrasts even more when in the first sentence, you can read " Squeak is a modern, open source full-featured implementation of the powerful Smalltalk programming ..." squeak logo http://www.hackontest.ch/resource/.thumblogo/SqueakLogo.png I'm not against the mouse icon at all... but refreshing it with a 3D look maybe could be nice, and will also fit squeak evolution with croquet for instance... there could some similarities with the gimp icon... but with a mouse instead ;) http://www.hackontest.ch/resource/.thumblogo/wilber_1.png Are there any 3D artist there ? Could the board manage this move ? Thanks Cédrick

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[ANN] Algernon: Your Personal Assistant for Squeak
by Joey Hagedorn 07 May '08

07 May '08

Hello everyone! We just wanted to announce our new software release, Algernon. Algernon is a keyboard-based launcher that provides lightning quick access to categories, classes, morphs, and global variables in your image. It's inspired by similar tools like Quicksilver and LaunchBar for Mac OS X. Give it a try and let us know what you think. We hope you love using it as much as we do! Thanks, Erik Hinterbichler and Joey Hagedorn http://map.squeak.org/account/package/b263b71c-9359-424c-bcc8-1269ccd4ccf8 P.S. None of this would have been possible without the work of Hernán Tylim on KeyBinder, our CS598 classmates, or our professor Ralph Johnson.

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[ANN] Squeak By Example in french
by Serge Stinckwich 07 May '08

07 May '08

Hi all, there is now a french edition of "Squeak By Example" book. Available as a free download or a printed copy on lulu.com. http://squeakbyexample.org/fr Enjoy ! -- Serge Stinckwich http://doesnotunderstand.org/

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SqueakGTK
by Gwenaël Casaccio 07 May '08

07 May '08

Hi everybody, I put a new version of SqueakGTK at http://gforge.inria.fr/frs/?group_id=1211, you can download the squeakVM (squeakGTK-3.10-1.tar.bz2 but only for unix maybe macos ??) patched with the GtkPlugin and the callback support and rebuild the vm. To build the vm inside the Squeak- 3.10-1 dir create a dir i.e. build/ go to this dir, ../platform/unix/config/configure make [make install] After you can install the Gtk-G.C.70.mcz file into your image and do in a workspace : "GtkDemo open" ;) If don't use a unix version of the vm or if you want to rebuild the vm by hand you must patch the code source of the squeakVM with the GtkPlugin-02052008.tar.bz2 and also with squeakCallback-02052008.tar.bz2 inside your image install vmmaker, install Callback.cs, ExtraRoot.cs and Gtk-G.C.70.mcz. Once you've done this with vmmaker you can rebuild the vm. I don't think the plugin will work for the squeak windows vm (I've tried to compile the vm but without success) Cheers, Gwenael Casaccio

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Invitation to join the Squeak Group on LinkedIn
by Merik Voswinkel 06 May '08

06 May '08

Hi Squeakers, You’re invited to join the Squeak Group on LinkedIn. Joining will allow you to find and contact other (professional) Squeak members on LinkedIn. The goal of this group is to help members: • Reach other members of Squeak • Accelerate careers/business through referrals from Squeak Group members • Know more than a name – view rich professional profiles from fellow Squeak Group members Here’s the link to join: http://www.linkedin.com/e/gis/98736/6F264C349F27 Hope to see you in the group, — Merik Voswinkel of the Linkedin Squeak Group Team

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