Hi guys > > I started to port Values to Pharo. > If you want to give an hand my current effort is here. > > https://github.com/Ducasse/PharoValues > <https://github.com/Ducasse/PharoValues> > > should migrate license and other stuff too. > > S > >> On 1 Mar 2022, at 19:08, christian.hai...@smalltalked-visuals.com >> <mailto:christian.hai...@smalltalked-visuals.com> wrote: >> >> Hi all, >> >> PDFtalk is a PDF library for VisualWorks[1]. The library has been ported >> successfully to Gemstone[2]. >> Now, there is interest from companies in a port to Squeak and VA Smalltalk. >> >> The project[3] has started and we are making good progress. >> The first step: porting the Values package. >> This is easy, because there are no namespace issues. >> >> The next step is to implement class renamings so that namespaced classes can >> be renamed to global prefixed names. >> >> Then PDFtalk with all its components, except for the UI, can be ported. >> >> The porting approach is different to the traditional way of loading and >> fixing. >> The import files for other Smalltalks are generated from VisualWorks where >> the code is transformed by declarative rules. >> The approach is documented in [4]. >> >> I set up a GitHub organization for this project[5]. There, the fileouts for >> each dialect are published (Gemstone, Squeak and VA Smalltalk so far), so >> that people without VisualWorks can work with the code in their Smalltalk. >> >> Also, I record and explain all steps of the porting process for Squeak in >> great detail[6], so that people can follow it. >> >> I would like to invite Smalltalkers from all dialects to take part in this >> project. >> The code transformations for Squeak will be quite similar to the ones needed >> for Pharo and Cuis. >> Therefore, each port to one Smalltalk will help the port to other Smalltalks. >> >> Any takers? >> >> Happy hacking, >> Christian >> >> >> [1] https://wiki.pdftalk.de/doku.php?id=start >> <https://wiki.pdftalk.de/doku.php?id=start> >> [2] https://wiki.pdftalk.de/doku.php?id=pdftalk4gemstone >> <https://wiki.pdftalk.de/doku.php?id=pdftalk4gemstone> >> [3] https://wiki.pdftalk.de/doku.php?id=pdftalknonnamespacefileout >> <https://wiki.pdftalk.de/doku.php?id=pdftalknonnamespacefileout> >> [4] https://wiki.pdftalk.de/doku.php?id=smalltalktransform >> <https://wiki.pdftalk.de/doku.php?id=smalltalktransform> >> [5] https://github.com/PortingPDFtalk <https://github.com/PortingPDFtalk> >> [6] https://wiki.pdftalk.de/doku.php?id=valuesportinglog >> <https://wiki.pdftalk.de/doku.php?id=valuesportinglog>_______________________________________________ >> Esug-list mailing list -- esug-l...@lists.esug.org >> <mailto:esug-l...@lists.esug.org> >> To unsubscribe send an email to esug-list-le...@lists.esug.org >> <mailto:esug-list-le...@lists.esug.org> > >
