Nice work! Doru
> On Oct 23, 2016, at 8:36 PM, Santiago Bragagnolo > <santiagobragagn...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > Hi everybody. > > We are officially releasing a first version of scale. > > Scale is a command line handler that is there for making easier the life of > the people that uses scripting in linux. As such, we only tested it so far in > linux. It will be for sure easy to adapt it to mac because its a *nix, but > not for windoze. > > IMPORTANT REMARK: scale is not meant to develop applications, it is meant to > develop scripts in Pharo, to be launched from the command line. This means > that scale does not provide a top level syntax to declare classes or methods: > people should do that as any normal Pharo application. Scale should be used > to invoke such applications. > > When would you use scale? > - For example, to replace some bash scripts used for common boring tasks > (and you are using python or ruby there :P) > - Another example, would be when you want to replace bash scripts that > chain things like: > ./pharo eval --save "something" > ./pharo eval --save "other something" > ... > > Github: https://github.com/guillep/Scale > Oneliner to install: (note it needs sudo) > wget -O- > https://raw.githubusercontent.com/guillep/Scale/master/setupScale.sh | sudo > bash > > In the repository there is some user level documentation based on examples > and a list of available methods on the magical variable system. There are > many examples as well on the repository. > > Last but not least, I'm using this project in others two projects, where it > proof it self quite powerful what keeps me on maintaining Scale. > > These projects are: > > Pharo Android VM building https://github.com/sbragagnolo/pharo-vm > > Here I use it for automating the creation of a > * new building image, > * the creation of new resource image (for deploying on the android > apk), > * linking the android sources into the building directory > * generating the code from the console > > MakrosTool https://github.com/sbragagnolo/MakrosTool > > MakrosTool is an extension of scale that adds a second magical variable for > building up component reification in a ROS based environment. > > > Santiago & Guille > > > > > -- www.tudorgirba.com www.feenk.com “The smaller and more pervasive the hardware becomes, the more physical the software gets."