Re: [Pharo-users] Accessing DLLs in Smalltalk/V

2014-05-30 Thread Joachim Geidel
Hello Clément, Am 29.05.2014 um 17:23 schrieb Clément Bera bera.clem...@gmail.com: NativeBoost is clearly the best option because it is the fastest, it is mostly implemented in the image so you can look at the code and it is by default in the image. FFI from the VM typically manages much

Re: [Pharo-users] Accessing DLLs in Smalltalk/V

2014-05-30 Thread stepharo
Hi joachim could you spend some time and helping us to write a documentation on nativeboost? Else it will always stay the same. I cannot systematically try to write documentation on things I do not have expertise because it is killing me. For igor everything is obvious :) but we spent some

Re: [Pharo-users] [ANN] iStoa 14.06

2014-05-30 Thread Tudor Girba
I just tried it this morning, and it works on Mac just fine. It looks quite interesting! Doru On Fri, May 30, 2014 at 9:59 AM, stepharo steph...@free.fr wrote: I have a son of 7 but on mac I will try to ee what I can do. On 29/5/14 10:49, Hilaire Fernandes wrote: Hi, If you have young

Re: [Pharo-users] Accessing DLLs in Smalltalk/V

2014-05-30 Thread kilon alios
he has not provided documentation for Nativeboost that's true, but he never left a question unanswered either ;) I think I will come around eventually to adding documentation to Nativeboost. Imagine every Pharoer adding 10 lines of documentation every day. Say 100 people . That's 33 pages per

Re: [Pharo-users] Accessing DLLs in Smalltalk/V

2014-05-30 Thread Joachim Geidel
Hi all, Am 30.05.2014 um 10:30 schrieb kilon alios kilon.al...@gmail.com: he has not provided documentation for Nativeboost that's true, but he never left a question unanswered either ;) just to make sure that my message isn’t misunderstood: I am not blaming Igor for not having written a

Re: [Pharo-users] Sending transactional emails from Pharo

2014-05-30 Thread Norbert Hartl
Am 30.05.2014 um 05:19 schrieb Esteban A. Maringolo emaring...@gmail.com: As promised... I tested it, and worked. Thank you again Norbert! I’m glad to hear that. I chose Mandrill over Postmark by two main reasons (other than better looking UI): * It doesn't require me to authenticate the

Re: [Pharo-users] MacOS headless but showing up in dock?

2014-05-30 Thread Bernat Romagosa
Installing Alien proved to be quite a challenge... but I managed! Now I got an instance of ObjectiveCAlien that (I think) represents some kind of dock object, but I don't really know what to do with it... Here's what I have: #NSApplication inObjectiveC sharedApplication dockTile What kind of

Re: [Pharo-users] Accessing DLLs in Smalltalk/V

2014-05-30 Thread kilon alios
just to make sure that my message isn’t misunderstood: I am not blaming Igor for not having written a book about NativeBoost (yet), and I am very thankful that he wrote NativeBoost in the first place. I know how hard it is to maintain a piece of software over an extended period of time. You have

Re: [Pharo-users] the mystery of dirty package

2014-05-30 Thread Usman Bhatti
Tx for the pointer Thierry. So, I did a small script (because there were 314 methods) to see number of non-class-extension methods with and without loading the dirty marker package and I could spot the culprit. Running this script before and after loading the second package and doing a

Re: [Pharo-users] the mystery of dirty package

2014-05-30 Thread Tudor Girba
I do not quite understand. If it is an overriden method, the dirtyness should not go away when looking for changes, no? In our case, there are no changes found. @Usman: what is the problematic method? Doru On Fri, May 30, 2014 at 1:11 PM, Usman Bhatti usman.bha...@gmail.com wrote: Tx for

Re: [Pharo-users] the mystery of dirty package

2014-05-30 Thread Usman Bhatti
On Fri, May 30, 2014 at 1:16 PM, Tudor Girba tu...@tudorgirba.com wrote: I do not quite understand. If it is an overriden method, the dirtyness should not go away when looking for changes, no? +1 In our case, there are no changes found. @Usman: what is the problematic method? Doru,

Re: [Pharo-users] MacOS headless but showing up in dock?

2014-05-30 Thread Esteban Lorenzano
On 30 May 2014, at 08:00, Bernat Romagosa tibabenfortlapala...@gmail.com wrote: Installing Alien proved to be quite a challenge... but I managed! why? configuration should work out of the box. Now I got an instance of ObjectiveCAlien that (I think) represents some kind of dock object,

Re: [Pharo-users] the mystery of dirty package

2014-05-30 Thread GOUBIER Thierry
De : Pharo-users [pharo-users-boun...@lists.pharo.org] de la part de Tudor Girba [tu...@tudorgirba.com] Envoyé : vendredi 30 mai 2014 13:16 À : Any question about pharo is welcome Objet : Re: [Pharo-users] the mystery of dirty package I do not quite understand.

Re: [Pharo-users] Sending transactional emails from Pharo

2014-05-30 Thread Esteban A. Maringolo
2014-05-30 6:41 GMT-03:00 Norbert Hartl norb...@hartl.name: * It's pretty much free (though this is not a relevant factor ) Well, it is 12000 emails free per month. We will send arount 3000 per month, and the $1.5 per 1 of Postmark wasn't expensive either. Assuming you flag the

Re: [Pharo-users] the mystery of dirty package

2014-05-30 Thread Usman Bhatti
On Fri, May 30, 2014 at 1:16 PM, Tudor Girba tu...@tudorgirba.com wrote: I do not quite understand. If it is an overriden method, the dirtyness should not go away when looking for changes, no? In our case, there are no changes found. @Usman: what is the problematic method? Grease

Re: [Pharo-users] the mystery of dirty package

2014-05-30 Thread Stephan Eggermont
Usman wrote: It is second time in a week that I have to analyze a problem related to a package getting dirty because of loading another package. But when looking for changes, the first package becomes clean again. A well-known reason can be found by taking a look in your package cache. If

Re: [Pharo-users] Sending transactional emails from Pharo

2014-05-30 Thread Norbert Hartl
Am 30.05.2014 um 14:57 schrieb Esteban A. Maringolo emaring...@gmail.com: 2014-05-30 6:41 GMT-03:00 Norbert Hartl norb...@hartl.name: * It's pretty much free (though this is not a relevant factor ) Well, it is 12000 emails free per month. We will send arount 3000 per month, and the $1.5

Re: [Pharo-users] MacOS headless but showing up in dock?

2014-05-30 Thread Bernat Romagosa
Hi Esteban, The configuration didn't work out of the box. I had to load the bleeding edge version from the configuration, then manually load the latest Core and all MacOSX packages from the MC repo. I'll check appkido, thanks a lot! :) Bernat. 2014-05-30 14:17 GMT+02:00 Esteban Lorenzano

Re: [Pharo-users] Accessing DLLs in Smalltalk/V

2014-05-30 Thread Sean P. DeNigris
kilon alios wrote An insane amount of documentation rant insane may be the key term here. We could be inventing executable active essays, which is the kind of magic our live environment makes possible, instead of writing and rewriting paper docs that quickly go stale. Non-executable docs are a

Re: [Pharo-users] [ANN] iStoa 14.06

2014-05-30 Thread Hilaire Fernandes
There is indeed a lot to go, mainly a matter of time. With a growing corpus of educative activities, more and more dedicated morphic widget are designed and written, those could lead to a kind of iStoa Studio where teacher design activities, and possibly web designed. Well that will require even

Re: [Pharo-users] Accessing DLLs in Smalltalk/V

2014-05-30 Thread kilon alios
great point , I think that Pillar already does this but its not exactly hassle free. I have to say I really like Pillar, very simple syntax, it generates pdf and hmtl ouput as well latex. Still will be an extra effort to bring it inside Pharo in a form of an editor. But frankly if you want to make

Re: [Pharo-users] ical on pharo 2

2014-05-30 Thread Paul DeBruicker
Hi Jesus Mari, Thanks for spotting and fixing those bugs. The missing methods are because I overrode them in a package I’m using and forgot about that when I saved some changes to iCal. I did not notice the problem with the timeZone because I’m in the habit of only using UTC dates and

[Pharo-users] STON on ScaledDecimal?

2014-05-30 Thread José Comesaña
Wouldn't it be good if STON could save ScaledDecimals as 12345.678s?. That way, we could read them back again as ScaledDecimal, instead of Float. I have tried and it seems quite useful. Regards

Re: [Pharo-users] STON on ScaledDecimal?

2014-05-30 Thread Joachim Tuchel
Hi, Sounds good. But I think the Scale should be streamed as well: 12345.678s3 Joachim José Comesaña jose.comes...@gmail.com schrieb: Wouldn't it be good if STON could save ScaledDecimals as 12345.678s?. That way, we could read them back again as ScaledDecimal, instead of Float. I have tried

Re: [Pharo-users] [smallwiki] Pillar annotations for Latex

2014-05-30 Thread Ben Coman
Damien Cassou wrote: You can just commit to the http://www.smalltalkhub.com/#!/~Pier/Pillar http://www.smalltalkhub.com/#%21/%7EPier/Pillar repository. duh! of course. I was looking for my name in the contributors list, but then didn't notice it was a public repository. Its uploaded now.