Could you guys look at how to fix mouse clicks so the select first time
and stay selected. I have noticed some delay and clicks don't do whjat I
expect smoothly. I do not know if others know what I am talking about.
Snyways, it sounds like great fun, hopefully one happenss near me,
either here or on the road.
Thanks!
robert
On 12/19/2015 08:23 AM, Mariano Martinez Peck wrote:
Dear all,
I am tremendously happy to announce you that Pharo Consortium will
sponsor yet another development effort. In this particular case, it's
my honor to carry on such an effort and I will be developing and
improving a few things and ideas. All the contract and paperwork has
already been done so it's time to start working.
Regarding the developments itself, we discussed about these topics:
1) Experiment with a simpler yet more limited OSProcess alternative to
execute OS commands.
2) Improving FileSystem in order to better deal with some POSIX stuff
like symbolic links, unix file permissions, etc etc.
I have already started with 1). OSProcess is super complete and it
involves some packages (OSProcess / CommandShell) as well as some VM
plugins (OSProcessPlugin, AIOPlugin). OSProcess provides lots of
features (like forking the running image) but we would like to focus
only in executing OS commands. In addition, OSProcess dates from quite
some years ago when many of the current infrastructure features did
not exist yet.
So the idea is to think a simpler alternative to execute OS commands,
using new features such as threaded FFI (for example, for reading
async from pipes), pinned objects, etc. We want to use FFI as much as
possible rather than VM plugins.
From the image side, we are thinking about an API which would look
like a builder-like API (FileSystem, XStream, etc).
We have been discussing with David Lewis (OSProcess author) as well as
with Eliot Miranda, Esteban Lorenzano, Damien Pollet, Stephane
Ducasse, etc in order to agree in a project that would be worth doing
(otherwise we would continue using existing tools). And they have all
been very kind with me providing positive discussions.
I will soon do a survey to measure the most common use cases of
OSProcess and related tools.
If you have any thought, question, feedback, or whatever, please let
us know.
Finally, note that I will be doing this project together with another
client's project (Quuve) and my life does not have much free time
these days...so please be patient!!!
Best,
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Mariano
http://marianopeck.wordpress.com
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. .. .. ^,^ robert
