Re: [Pharo-dev] [Pharo-users] including Pillar in Pharo image by default

2017-08-17 Thread Dimitris Chloupis
I remember my 10 year self struggling learning to code basic back in 1988 on an Amstrad CPC 6128 with Locomotive Basic that required entering line numbers before the code statement. IDEs , code editors and what else were unheard of for me at least and even if they did exist would be nowhere near th

Re: [Pharo-dev] [Pharo-users] including Pillar in Pharo image by default

2017-08-17 Thread Dimitris Chloupis
On Thu, Aug 17, 2017 at 4:25 PM Esteban Lorenzano wrote: > hi Dimitris (good to see you around ;) ), > > Not going anywhere , just taking a break from Pharo :) > thing is… we want to improve our tools. > > great > And improve tools sometime means to add stuff (I’m not very happy with it > eit

Re: [Pharo-dev] [Pharo-users] including Pillar in Pharo image by default

2017-08-17 Thread p...@highoctane.be
Got an architecture discussion with a client this morning and a lot of pain they face is that there are too many choices out there on some platforms. A batteries included distro with one good framework doing its thing nicely if really a good thing to have. It reduces the amount of choice and thus

Re: [Pharo-dev] [Pharo-users] including Pillar in Pharo image by default

2017-08-17 Thread Esteban Lorenzano
> On 17 Aug 2017, at 15:24, Esteban Lorenzano wrote: > > hi Dimitris (good to see you around ;) ), > > thing is… we want to improve our tools. > > And improve tools sometime means to add stuff (I’m not very happy with it > either, I would like to remove more than what I add, but it is like t

Re: [Pharo-dev] [Pharo-users] including Pillar in Pharo image by default

2017-08-17 Thread Esteban Lorenzano
hi Dimitris (good to see you around ;) ), thing is… we want to improve our tools. And improve tools sometime means to add stuff (I’m not very happy with it either, I would like to remove more than what I add, but it is like that). For example, if we want to have good class comments, we need so

Re: [Pharo-dev] [Pharo-users] including Pillar in Pharo image by default

2017-08-17 Thread Dimitris Chloupis
Is it really necessary ? I am more a modular guy , I would love to get an image that 0.1% the size of the current one and offer me a convenient package manager to install the tools I like. I have used Pillar ALOT probably more than any other Pharo library because I was doing Pharo documentation s

Re: [Pharo-dev] [Pharo-users] including Pillar in Pharo image by default

2017-08-17 Thread Peter Uhnak
Even though I've initiated this discussion I kind of stopped reading because everyone started discussing completely unrelated things... The initial point was "we are using github/gitlab more and more, lets leverage it more" New, lets separate the concepts at play here... "Pillar - document

Re: [Pharo-dev] [Pharo-users] including Pillar in Pharo image by default

2017-08-16 Thread Esteban Lorenzano
Hi, In general (you all know me), I have the policy of “do not go alien just because” which means we do not need to reinvent the wheel all the time and we need to stick with what is already there and known (I have pushed many changes in pharo following this direction, iceberg being just the la

Re: [Pharo-dev] [Pharo-users] including Pillar in Pharo image by default

2017-08-15 Thread Eliot Miranda
> On Aug 15, 2017, at 7:25 AM, Ben Coman wrote: > > > >> On Tue, Aug 15, 2017 at 12:54 AM, Esteban A. Maringolo >> wrote: >> You hit several birds with one single mail. >> >> 2017-08-14 13:34 GMT-03:00 Tim Mackinnon : >> > Jimmie et al. nicely reasoned arguments - and Doru's point about >

Re: [Pharo-dev] [Pharo-users] including Pillar in Pharo image by default

2017-08-15 Thread Ben Coman
On Tue, Aug 15, 2017 at 12:54 AM, Esteban A. Maringolo wrote: > You hit several birds with one single mail. > > 2017-08-14 13:34 GMT-03:00 Tim Mackinnon : > > Jimmie et al. nicely reasoned arguments - and Doru's point about > controlling > > the syntax is an interesting one that I hadn’t thought

Re: [Pharo-dev] [Pharo-users] including Pillar in Pharo image by default

2017-08-14 Thread Tudor Girba
Hi, > On Aug 14, 2017, at 3:51 PM, Esteban Lorenzano wrote: > > again, I think this is a discussion for pharo-dev. > Please keep it there (is good discussion, btw ;) ). > > What about my proposal of including a tiny PetitParser? (it would be > “InfimeParser” :P) I am for it, but there will

Re: [Pharo-dev] [Pharo-users] including Pillar in Pharo image by default

2017-08-14 Thread Jimmie Houchin
Thank Tim, My primary reason to submit the message was not to necessarily persuade you per se. But to provide something historical for the mailing list as this can be a recurring subject. Why use Pillar markup instead of ???(insert personal favorite). If Pharo were to decide on a different m

Re: [Pharo-dev] [Pharo-users] including Pillar in Pharo image by default

2017-08-14 Thread Stephane Ducasse
We can change the syntax or propose an alternate one as soon as it uses the same internal structure. Stef On Mon, Aug 14, 2017 at 6:34 PM, Tim Mackinnon wrote: > Jimmie et al. nicely reasoned arguments - and Doru's point about controlling > the syntax is an interesting one that I hadn’t thought

Re: [Pharo-dev] [Pharo-users] including Pillar in Pharo image by default

2017-08-14 Thread Esteban A. Maringolo
You hit several birds with one single mail. 2017-08-14 13:34 GMT-03:00 Tim Mackinnon : > Jimmie et al. nicely reasoned arguments - and Doru's point about controlling > the syntax is an interesting one that I hadn’t thought about. > > Personally, I find having too many similar syntax’s confusing -

Re: [Pharo-dev] [Pharo-users] including Pillar in Pharo image by default

2017-08-14 Thread Tim Mackinnon
Jimmie et al. nicely reasoned arguments - and Doru's point about controlling the syntax is an interesting one that I hadn’t thought about. Personally, I find having too many similar syntax’s confusing - contributing to things is hard enough - having to remember that its !! Instead of ## and “”

Re: [Pharo-dev] [Pharo-users] including Pillar in Pharo image by default

2017-08-14 Thread Jimmie Houchin
TL;DR Main points: Their is no universally accepted markup language. Other communities use their own markup and tools and their markup and tools choice is not determine by other communities decisions. We need a language and tool chain that we can control and maintain which accomplishes our goa

Re: [Pharo-dev] [Pharo-users] including Pillar in Pharo image by default

2017-08-14 Thread Esteban Lorenzano
again, I think this is a discussion for pharo-dev. Please keep it there (is good discussion, btw ;) ). What about my proposal of including a tiny PetitParser? (it would be “InfimeParser” :P) Esteban > On 14 Aug 2017, at 11:10, Tudor Girba wrote: > > Hi Tim, > > The main benefit of relying

Re: [Pharo-dev] [Pharo-users] including Pillar in Pharo image by default

2017-08-12 Thread Esteban Lorenzano
> On 12 Aug 2017, at 18:22, Guillermo Polito wrote: > > Esteban, I think that when Stef says "a mini version of pillar" he does not > mean a mini version of the parser or the AST, but a version that does not > have the exporting to html/latex/… I know that. But Cyril talked about “getting a

Re: [Pharo-dev] [Pharo-users] including Pillar in Pharo image by default

2017-08-12 Thread Guillermo Polito
Esteban, I think that when Stef says "a mini version of pillar" he does not mean a mini version of the parser or the AST, but a version that does not have the exporting to html/latex/... On Sat, Aug 12, 2017 at 4:37 PM, Esteban Lorenzano wrote: > and btw, this kind of threads belongs to pharo-de

Re: [Pharo-dev] [Pharo-users] including Pillar in Pharo image by default

2017-08-12 Thread Esteban Lorenzano
and btw, this kind of threads belongs to pharo-dev, not to pharo-users :) Esteban > On 12 Aug 2017, at 16:35, Esteban Lorenzano wrote: > > >> On 12 Aug 2017, at 12:46, Tudor Girba wrote: >> >> Hi, >> >> I would very much like this path. What would constitute tiny? > > no idea, we need to t