Squeak-dev August 2008

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Strange Unix file behavior?
by Andreas Raab 08 Aug '08

08 Aug '08

Hi - I just noticed the following strange behavior on Unix: FileDirectory default fileExists: 'foo'. => false "as expected" FileDirectory default fileExists: ''. => false "as expected" FileDirectory default fileExists: '.'. => false "as expected" FileDirectory default fileExists: '..'. => false "as expected" FileDirectory default readOnlyFileNamed: 'foo'. => FileDoesNotExistException "as expected" FileDirectory default readOnlyFileNamed: ''. => MultiByteFileStream: '/home/qwaq/server/bin/forums/' "Huh?" FileDirectory default readOnlyFileNamed: '.'. => MultiByteFileStream: '/home/qwaq/server/bin/forums/.' "WTF?" FileDirectory default readOnlyFileNamed: '..'. => MultiByteFileStream: '/home/qwaq/server/bin/forums/..' "????" Is this expected behavior? If not, any ideas how to fix it? Thanks, - Andreas

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Box-Admins Team Report for July, 2008
by Ken Causey 08 Aug '08

08 Aug '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 July, 2008: July was mostly another lazy summer month on the box-admins team report. On the 19th or 20th the community server was inaccessible and Marcus Denker requested that the hosting company reboot it and it was back up on the 21st. 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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Some Squeak questions
by P.Davidowitz 07 Aug '08

07 Aug '08

Hello, I currently have these questions: 1) In Squeak class defintion display in browser, what do colored/bolded/italicized instVars signify (e.g., class CPlayer in Croquet)? Is this documented anywhere? 2) How do I include external files for a test suite (e.g., testing loading XML files); also, can they be put in their own directory (e.g., test/collada) ? 3) Is there currently a way to generically validate an XML instance file against its schema within Squeak, and if not, is someone working on this? Thanks, Paul Davidowitz pdavidow(a)gmail.com

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Smalltalk customers
by Damien Cassou 07 Aug '08

07 Aug '08

Hi, I would like to present Smalltalk to my colleagues because they all think it's an old language of no interest which nobody uses. To prove them they are false, I would like to build a list of companies who are using Smalltalk every day. Can you please give me the names of your companies if they are using Smalltalk? Thank you very much -- Damien Cassou Peter von der Ahé: «I'm beginning to see why Gilad wished us good luck». (http://blogs.sun.com/ahe/entry/override_snafu)

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Re-2: Re-2: [squeak-dev] Compilation of HydraVM
by Frank Urbach 06 Aug '08

06 Aug '08

>yes, its because your shell (or make) can't understand that >backslashes is a path separator. >You can use 'make -f Makefile.mingw32' >or fix the original makefile , or as i suggested before use mkdir which works.. I fixed the makefile. And.... yes! I have my first brand new compiled HydraVM :). The vm is 200KB thiner then yours, why I don't know. Cheers, Frank

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Re: Re-2: [squeak-dev] Compilation of HydraVM
by Frank Urbach 06 Aug '08

06 Aug '08

>then make sure that >mkdir .\obj\vm >works correctly. >Maybe you should change the PATH environment variable, so that command >line can find a windows version of mkdir utility first. during the make every mkDir leads to an directory e.g. .objZipPlugin instead of obj\ZipPlugin. Cheers, Frank

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Re-2: [squeak-dev] Compilation of HydraVM
by Frank Urbach 06 Aug '08

06 Aug '08

> It seems that you using a GNU bash command line, not running make from >windows command line. >a bash-s mkdir treats backslashes differently that's why : >mkdir .\obj\vm no I called the make from the windows commandline in the directory D:\Smalltalk\Squeak\CroquetSDK-1.0.18\HydraVM\winbuild . Hope you get some ideas from this informations Cheers, Frank

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Compilation of HydraVM
by Frank Urbach 06 Aug '08

06 Aug '08

My first try to get my own vm ends with the following error-message of make: ---------------- Makefile settings ------------------ VPATH=./src/vm ../platforms/win32/vm ../platforms/Cross/vm INCLUDES=-I. -I./src/vm -I../platforms/win32/vm -I../platforms/Cross/vm -Ic:/dx7 sdk/include CFLAGS=-g -mpentium -mwindows -fomit-frame-pointer -funroll-loops -fschedule-ins ns2 -O2 ----------------------------------------------------- mkdir .\obj\vm mkdir: cannot create directory `.objvm': File exists make: *** [obj/vm] Error 1 the structure of my build-system: croquet-sdk 1.0.18 |_ HydraVM |_platforms |_winbuild I gone through the build process with Klaus (Thanks Klaus ). I'm on WindowsXP and checked out the svn branche of HydraVM from squeakvm.org. Any suggestions appreciate. TIA Frank

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[ANN][Squeak-dev Images] August 2008 versions
by David Faught 05 Aug '08

05 Aug '08

Damien Cassou wrote: ... - OB-Tools has been included in 3.10 based images. Lukas Renggli reimplemented different Squeak standard tools using the OmniBrowser framework: Inspector, Debugger, Process Browser, File Browser, Transcript and Workspace. Lukas is requesting help for this package: http://mail.wiresong.ca/pipermail/ob-dev/2008-August/000580.html ... I don't suppose that OmniBrowser and the rest of these tools are by any chance based on ToolBuilder so that they would be useful in MVC, Tweak, and whatever else .... Just wondering, Dave

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About controlling debugger popping up
by stephane ducasse 05 Aug '08

05 Aug '08

Hello list, I was thinking how I would control the opening of debugger on deployed application. Imagine I want to copy the stack and send it by email or something like that. I could change the defaultAction of UnhandledError for example. Now if I want to scope the control of popping debuggers I could use on:do: and I was wondering if there is an idiom. I was not sure that this is a good style to do on: UnhandledError do: .... but may be I'm wrong So how do you do it. Stef

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