Hi alain This is great to know that you can now work officially on Bloc and I really hope that your project with Thales will succeed. We need a strong Pharo. After more than 5 years of discussions with Thales I'm happy to see coming truth. People do not imagine the amount of energy we can spend sometimes :) And indeed you are right! I was sad to see that you are not even part of the github team after all the effort you spent on Bloc (and Miro and Miro2). I think that I was just the guy asking stupid questions but indeed this is true that it was in collaboration with Rmod, thank to mention it. I also agree with you that this is important that your work is respected and acknowledged and indeed I do not see how it relates to humane assessment.
Stef On Thu, May 11, 2017 at 5:36 PM, Alain Plantec via Pharo-dev < pharo-dev@lists.pharo.org> wrote: > > > ---------- Forwarded message ---------- > From: Alain Plantec <alain.plan...@yahoo.com> > To: Pharo Development List <pharo-dev@lists.pharo.org> > Cc: Alain Plantec <alain.plan...@yahoo.com>, Moose-related development < > moose-...@list.inf.unibe.ch>, Any question about pharo is welcome < > pharo-us...@lists.pharo.org> > Bcc: > Date: Thu, 11 May 2017 17:36:36 +0200 > Subject: Re: [Pharo-users] [ann] bloc & cairo+morphic > Hello Doru, all, > > I’m really happy to see Bloc progresses. > Even I’m not active since more than one year, Bloc is still an important > project for me. > > but let me complete this short historical presentation a little bit. > > Bloc is a project that I initiated in 2013 in collaboration with RMOD > following experiments made around the ROME project. > The idea was to completely revisit the 2D framework of Pharo to address > Morphic limits. > Following an invitation of the Software Composition Group (thanks to Oscar > Nierstrasz and to Doru here), > I presented the first version of Bloc at Bern (March, 2015), then Doru and > Aliaksel joined the project. > One year ago, during his PhD at Brest, Glenn Cavarle produced a new > version of the Bloc infrastructure that is now the > one used together with the layouting system that was implemented by > Aliaksel. > > Please, do not use the humane assessment web site but the github project > one instead. > > I will restart working on Bloc/Brick soon in the context of a project that > we recently signed with the Thales company. > > Thanks, > Cheers > > Alain > > > > On 8 mai 2017, at 23:00, Tudor Girba <tu...@tudorgirba.com> wrote: > > > > Hi, > > > > We are happy to announce that based on the work of Glenn, Alex extended > Bloc (Sparta) to work directly in the Morphic world using Cairo as a > backend. > > > > Cairo is less powerful than Moz2D (see the screenshot below for an > example), but the implementation addresses a concern that the community > raised regarding a perceived increased liability due to the dependency to > Moz2D. Essentially this means that Bloc can be treated as another graphical > library that can coexist with Morphic without requiring any external VM > plugin. > > > > <bloc-two-backends-morphic-host-figures.png> > > > > I would also like to point out that adding a new backend and host was > possible because of the many iterations (including throwing away whole > implementations) that Alex and Glenn went through. I think they did an > amazing job. > > > > You can find a bit more details about Bloc here: > > http://www.humane-assessment.com/blog/bloc-flexible-backends-hosts/ > > > > Another issue raised regarding Bloc was that of the engineering effort > required to make it a reality. That is why I would also like to announce > that Alex joined feenk.com where he is primarily working on the graphical > stack for Pharo. > > > > Cheers, > > Doru > > > > > > -- > > www.tudorgirba.com > > www.feenk.com > > > > "To lead is not to demand things, it is to make them happen." > > > > > > > > > > > >
