[Pharo-dev] confused about hanging pointer

2017-04-23 Thread Ben Coman
Background: I'm looking into https://pharo.fogbugz.com/f/cases/19973/DarkTheme-tool-bar-icons Take for example UITheme>> windowMaximizeForm "Answer the form to use for the maximize button of a window." "self haltOnce." ^self forms at: #windowMaximize ifAbsent: [ "self

[Pharo-dev] CfP: DLS 2017 - 13th Dynamic Languages Symposium, co-located with SPLASH 2017, October 24, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

2017-04-23 Thread Nick Papoylias
CALL FOR PAPERS DLS 2017 - 13th Dynamic Languages Symposium Co-located with SPLASH 2017, October 24, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

Re: [Pharo-dev] Security in the image

2017-04-23 Thread p...@highoctane.be
I was thinking of using Denis remote thing with an XMPP XEP so that we could IM our way into an image. That would be message passing. Coupled with a file transfer feature, well, could become interesting (and wild). That's On Sun, Apr 23, 2017 at 7:36 PM, Ben Coman wrote:

Re: [Pharo-dev] Security in the image

2017-04-23 Thread Ben Coman
On Sun, Apr 23, 2017 at 8:33 PM, p...@highoctane.be wrote: > But what makes Pharo nice is also that there are no such limitations. > > There are security things in Pharo, like disabling socket acces etc. > Maybe putting the VM in a true sandbox would be more adequate. > That

Re: [Pharo-dev] Security in the image

2017-04-23 Thread p...@highoctane.be
But what makes Pharo nice is also that there are no such limitations. There are security things in Pharo, like disabling socket acces etc. Maybe putting the VM in a true sandbox would be more adequate. That can be done in a lot of ways at the OS level. Think containers. Phil On Sun, Apr 23,

Re: [Pharo-dev] Security in the image

2017-04-23 Thread Guillermo Polito
Generally speaking, and from my understanding, you will not be able to do: SomeClass compile: 'initialize MyEvilHack dostuff. ^ super initialize ' In newspeak. And that's because you are not able to do: SomeClass compile: '...' Newspeak uses object capabilities, and following those

Re: [Pharo-dev] #renameTo: and #moveTo:

2017-04-23 Thread Stephane Ducasse
Yes we should improve the primitive information return back to the image. On Fri, Apr 21, 2017 at 10:08 AM, Alistair Grant wrote: > On Thu, Apr 20, 2017 at 09:21:01PM +0200, Nicolas Cellier wrote: > > 2017-04-20 9:53 GMT+02:00 Alistair Grant : > > >

Re: [Pharo-dev] Security in the image

2017-04-23 Thread Ben Coman
On Thu, Apr 13, 2017 at 3:54 PM, Denis Kudriashov wrote: > > 2017-04-12 18:32 GMT+02:00 Ben Coman : >> >> If you want hostile actors working directly within the Image with a full >> environment, then Pharo is probably not suitable. Its easy to get hold