Re: [Pharo-project] Towards Pharo 1.0

2009-02-23 Thread David Pennell
Milestone 3 includes - closures (may be with the changes of mathieu with a new image format) Didn't we pickup Eliot's recent closure work? If so, how do the two relate? On Mon, Feb 23, 2009 at 1:45 PM, Adrian Lienhard wrote: > Hi all, > > Marcus, Stef and I have been meeting today and we d

Re: [Pharo-project] On not unnecessarily closing down the language

2008-12-27 Thread David Pennell
Its handy to at least have the option of making args writable in order to support implementing languages like Javascript on top of the bytecode set. -david On Sat, Dec 27, 2008 at 8:43 AM, Yoshiki Ohshima wrote: > At Sat, 27 Dec 2008 00:24:02 -0800, > Vassili Bykov wrote: > > > > On Thu, Dec 25,

Re: [Pharo-project] Inclusion of OB-Tools inside Pharo

2008-12-22 Thread David Pennell
Bill, Can you give an example of the kind of comments that RB doesn't respect for you? I've used RB extensively on VW, but not much at all on Squeak yet. It had problems with end of line comments, but didn't do badly with comments on there own line. I adopted to its limitations rather than try t

Re: [Pharo-project] Notifiers

2008-12-20 Thread David Pennell
So only open one and recognize eecursive UHE and do something clever. Opening an infinite # of any kind of window sucks. -david On Dec 20, 2008, at 2:58 PM, "Bill Schwab" wrote: > Stef, > > Under ordinary circumstances, it's ok, but OA tried this and then > quickly decided it was a bad idea

Re: [Pharo-project] How do we deal with submitted code

2008-12-19 Thread David Pennell
I think you should get the agreements. Perhaps if you provided an easier way to send the agreement than physical mail or fax (e.g. signed, scanned and e-mail), you might get more signed agreements. Sending international mail is not something us provincial American's do very often. My sweet wife

Re: [Pharo-project] Inspector Gadget

2008-12-05 Thread David Pennell
c 4, 2008, at 1:32 AM, David Pennell wrote: > > > We currently have both "inspect" and "explore". It would be nice to > > have one tool. I'd vote for "explore" as a base with some > > enhancements to pick up the useful features from "insp

Re: [Pharo-project] inspector gadget

2008-12-05 Thread David Pennell
hew Fulmer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wed, Dec 03, 2008 at 11:59:10PM -0600, David Pennell wrote: > > You can modify iVars in Explorer, but it doesn't update the display. > > How do you do that? > > In inspector, you select the ivar in the top-left pane, edit the &g

Re: [Pharo-project] inspector gadget

2008-12-03 Thread David Pennell
You can modify iVars in Explorer, but it doesn't update the display. On Wed, Dec 3, 2008 at 11:22 PM, Matthew Fulmer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wed, Dec 03, 2008 at 10:26:30PM -0600, David Pennell wrote: > > I agree. > > Just to be clear - I use both becau

Re: [Pharo-project] inspector gadget

2008-12-03 Thread David Pennell
r and the action Inspect it. > > On Wed, Dec 3, 2008 at 6:32 PM, David Pennell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > > We currently have both "inspect" and "explore". It would be nice to have > > one tool. I'd vote for "explore" as a ba

[Pharo-project] inspector gadget

2008-12-03 Thread David Pennell
We currently have both "inspect" and "explore". It would be nice to have one tool. I'd vote for "explore" as a base with some enhancements to pick up the useful features from "inspect". -david ___ Pharo-project mailing list Pharo-project@lists.gforge.in

[Pharo-project] refactor instance variables

2008-12-03 Thread David Pennell
refactor instance variables | accessors used to figure out which instance variables needed to be added and give you a chance to accept or reject the proposed list. After loading the latest updates, it now presents a list of instance variables, letting you pick one and only one to add. The new beh

[Pharo-project] Fwd: [squeak-dev] Rio: exceptions documentation

2008-12-03 Thread David Pennell
Should we add an item on the tracker to remove CrLfFileStream? -- Forwarded message -- From: Keith Hodges <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Wed, Dec 3, 2008 at 8:04 AM Subject: Re: [squeak-dev] Rio: exceptions documentation To: The general-purpose Squeak developers list < [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [Pharo-project] Seaside29 and pharo

2008-12-02 Thread David Pennell
I managed to load Seaside 2.9 in a Pharo image (current as of today). All tests are green, but when I try to open http://localhost:8080/seaside/config, I get "MessageNotUnderstood: WAKom>dispatchRequest:". Any suggestions? BTW - I just installed the changesets from [3]. -david On Sat, Nov 22,

Re: [Pharo-project] FFI inside Pharo ?

2008-11-29 Thread David Pennell
+1 On Nov 29, 2008, at 3:14 AM, Marcus Denker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On 28.11.2008, at 12:35, Antony Blakey wrote: On 28/11/2008, at 9:43 PM, Damien Cassou wrote: On Fri, Nov 28, 2008 at 12:07 PM, Igor Stasenko <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: May i guess, that dev image should contain FF

Re: [Pharo-project] About browsers

2008-11-20 Thread David Pennell
Vassili's work on Hopscotch is a very interesting approach to eliminating modes in the browser. http://bracha.org/hopscotch-wasdett.pdf -david On Thu, Nov 20, 2008 at 2:38 AM, Stéphane Ducasse <[EMAIL PROTECTED] > wrote: > > This is another illustration that the UI of Smalltalk browser is full o

Re: [Pharo-project] Exploring an event handling implementation

2008-11-16 Thread David Pennell
Yes, but... what about the Apache license? On Sat, Nov 15, 2008 at 8:17 AM, Stéphane Ducasse <[EMAIL PROTECTED] > wrote: > John is working on it. > > > On Nov 15, 2008, at 3:12 PM, David Pennell wrote: > > Is somebody working on Alien for Pharo? >> I've been

Re: [Pharo-project] Exploring an event handling implementation

2008-11-15 Thread David Pennell
Is somebody working on Alien for Pharo?I've been meaning to ask about how Pharo will handle the non-MIT (Apache) license of Alien. Do we have a list of friendly/compatible licenses? -david On Sat, Nov 15, 2008 at 6:45 AM, Stéphane Ducasse <[EMAIL PROTECTED] > wrote: > > I know that Alien FFI is

Re: [Pharo-project] FreeType

2008-11-05 Thread David Pennell
Changing the cache management policy and enhancing the mapping of logical to real fonts seem like relatively low hanging fruit or am I missing something? -david On Wed, Nov 5, 2008 at 11:19 AM, Gary Chambers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>wrote: [snip] > Currently, if the cache size limit (bytes of all glyph

Re: [Pharo-project] Strange bugs?

2008-11-02 Thread David Pennell
Just for the record - I think you guys are doing an awesome job. I'm extremely impressed at the level of effort, commitment and rate of progress that I've witnessed with the Pharo project. Keep up the great work! -david On Sun, Nov 2, 2008 at 9:49 AM, Adrian Lienhard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

Re: [Pharo-project] Issue 260 cleanup hasLiteralThorough

2008-10-21 Thread David Pennell
shouldn't that be #refersToLiteral ? http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/refers On Tue, Oct 21, 2008 at 9:41 AM, Gwenael Casaccio <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello, > > I've renamed hasLiteralThorough: to #referesToLiteral: (cf > > http://www.squeaksource.com/PharoInbox/SLICE-cleanup-hasLiter

Re: [Pharo-project] Monticello: an idealist question

2008-10-09 Thread David Pennell
VW runs has been on Linux since about 2001. On Thu, Oct 9, 2008 at 9:26 AM, Matthew Fulmer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I really wish I could try out Dolphin and VW and see what I am > missing, but they don't run on linux. > ___ Pharo-project mailing

Re: [Pharo-project] about ifEmptyOrNil:

2008-10-06 Thread David Pennell
I think it's reasonable to ditch it. Its just syntactic sugar (and should have probably been named ifNilOrEmpty). -david On Mon, Oct 6, 2008 at 6:28 AM, Bill Schwab <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > David, > > I first heard of defensive programming in the spirit of getting around > the dreaded UAE of

Re: [Pharo-project] about ifEmptyOrNil:

2008-10-05 Thread David Pennell
Stef, I would expect to see another implementation of ifEmptyOrNil on UndefinedObject that returns true. I've seen it used productively for defensive coding in frameworks, where you may get nil instead of an empty collection passed to you. -david On Sun, Oct 5, 2008 at 8:28 PM, Bill Schwab <[EMAI