From: Christian Haider <christian.haider@smalltalked-visuals.com>
Date: February 1, 2022 at 1:44:59 AM PST
To: vwnc@lists.cs.illinois.edu
Subject: [vwnc] [PDFtalk] Porting the library to non-namespace Smalltalks
Reply-To: christian.haider@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