Pay attention
- we are sorry and yes spec evolves over time. It is getting stabilized
- the UiPainter is an experiment
- pay attention that Spec got a new pass on it in Pharo3.0alpha
- if you are ready for a bit of edge cutting version, use the latest
version and ask questions.
On Oct 22, 2013, at 12:29 AM, Buddha Buck <[email protected]> wrote:
> I am trying to learn Spec (which seems to be a moving target), and I don't
> know how all the various widgets and tools are supposed to work.
>
> Given that there is a Spec-based UIPainter project as part of this years
> Google Summer of Code (recently completed), I thought it would be a good idea
> to check that out. At the very least, I could poke around at the generated
> code and get a handle on how it works.
>
> Trying to load UIPainter (as per the instructions on
> http://uipainter-gsoc.over-blog.com/how-to-install-it) into Pharo 2.0 yielded
> errors about UIPainter being dependent on certain Spec classes which weren't
> available in Spec on Pharo 2.0.
>
> The instructions do say Pharo 3.0, so I downloaded the latest image (as of a
> few days ago), and tried again. The same errors came up.
>
> A search of the changelogs makes me thing that Pharo 30448 is the change that
> likely broke this, as it's titled "Remove Morphic Dependency from Spec" and
> removes a lot of Spec-Widget stuff. This change was also made after the "how
> to install" page was written.
>
> So how should I proceed? Should I grab image 30447 and work form that?
> Should I wait for Spec to stabilize and get documented?
>
> I'm a newbie to Smalltalk and to Pharo, so I don't know the customs yet.
Welcome
We are sorry that the system is not better but we are working steadily on it.
Stef
