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> From: Christian Haider <christian.haider(a)smalltalked-visuals.com>
> Date: February 1, 2022 at 1:44:59 AM PST
> To: vwnc(a)lists.cs.illinois.edu
> Subject: [vwnc] [PDFtalk] Porting the library to non-namespace Smalltalks
> Reply-To: christian.haider(a)smalltalked-visuals.com
>
>
> Hi,
>
> a new project started to port the PDF library PDFtalk [1] to Smalltalk dialects without namespaces.
>
> There has been some interest in the past for such a port. Unfortunately, after the first excitement, I never heard of these attempts anymore, so that I think that they were abandoned. It would be interesting to hear why.
>
> If there is still interest in getting PDFtalk into your Smalltalk, here is the chance to help and participate. I will try to do the port in the open and document everything on the wiki [1], so that lurkers can follow and helpers can comment.
>
> A project page has been set up [2] and I started a log [3] where I record in detail what I am doing for porting the Values package.
>
> The port is done with code transformations generating the source for the target dialect. You can find some documentation about the approach here [4].
>
> All these pages need work, so comments will be appreciated.
>
> Happy hacking,
> Christian
>
>
> [1] https://wiki.pdftalk.de/doku.php?id=start
> [2] https://wiki.pdftalk.de/doku.php?id=pdftalknonnamespacefileout
> [3] https://wiki.pdftalk.de/doku.php?id=valuesportinglog
> [4] https://wiki.pdftalk.de/doku.php?id=smalltalktransform
