Re: [Pharo-dev] AbstractLayout class comment

2016-09-25 Thread Marcus Denker
yes, needs update. can you add an issue? > On 26 Sep 2016, at 07:50, Ben Coman wrote: > > Minor thing... > AbstractLayout class comment says... > > "There are special cases of layouts without slots, like NilLayout or > BitsLayout." > > but I see no NilLayout in the system. Did this become Emp

[Pharo-dev] AbstractLayout class comment

2016-09-25 Thread Ben Coman
Minor thing... AbstractLayout class comment says... "There are special cases of layouts without slots, like NilLayout or BitsLayout." but I see no NilLayout in the system. Did this become EmptyLayout? cheers -ben

Re: [Pharo-dev] comparison statistics

2016-09-25 Thread Ben Coman
Of course the saying goes "There are three types of lies: lies, damn lies and statistics" But assuming some estimate with no data is equally fallible. Yes the committers list is obviously just "main developers" but equally as I consider the names on the Pharo About page, these are not drive-by one-

Re: [Pharo-dev] comparison statistics

2016-09-25 Thread Dimitris Chloupis
Allow me to be very skeptical, are you sure your numbers is not main contributors because I find it hard to believe that Python that has around 2 million coders world wide https://blog.pythonanywhere.com/67/ has ONLY 92 total contributors ? I would assume an estimate of around 1000 including thos

Re: [Pharo-dev] comparison statistics

2016-09-25 Thread Benoit St-Jean via Pharo-dev
--- Begin Message --- It could also reflect the complexity of the environment.  A lot of stuff can be done in waaay less lines of code in Pharo than in C for instance.  Hence, we need less developers in Pharo/Smalltalk to do more stuff!  - Benoît St-Jean Yahoo! Messenger

[Pharo-dev] comparison statistics

2016-09-25 Thread Ben Coman
Just bumped into some interesting statistics to consider when the minor worry occasionally arises that Pharo is not more popular. One aspect to measure the liveness and success of a project is the number of developers contributing to it. From the attached png, here are the number of developers fo

Re: [Pharo-dev] [ANN] FFI Tutorial, Pharo5 / Libclang

2016-09-25 Thread Esteban Lorenzano
this is super good… thanks for doing this. once finished I would like to use it as tutorial reference :) cheers, Esteban > On 24 Sep 2016, at 19:25, Ben Coman wrote: > > hi all, > > Just announcing that I'm writing a series of posts on using FFI in > Pharo 5 to interface to libclang, the in

Re: [Pharo-dev] FFI callout arguments - references to internal objects

2016-09-25 Thread Esteban Lorenzano
Hi Ben, I will take a better look tomorrow morning, but as first sight, seems to be that you want to declare SomeObject and receive it as argument to the callback, while you are receiving just an ExternalAddress. If is that the problem what happens is that callbacks do not handle *any type* a

[Pharo-dev] [pharo-project/pharo-core]

2016-09-25 Thread GitHub
Branch: refs/tags/60240 Home: https://github.com/pharo-project/pharo-core

[Pharo-dev] [pharo-project/pharo-core] d5075d: 60240

2016-09-25 Thread GitHub
Branch: refs/heads/6.0 Home: https://github.com/pharo-project/pharo-core Commit: d5075d407114ba1d3b529fb2740cbb34a4eaa50b https://github.com/pharo-project/pharo-core/commit/d5075d407114ba1d3b529fb2740cbb34a4eaa50b Author: Jenkins Build Server Date: 2016-09-25 (Sun, 25 Sep 2016