[Pharo-users] libUSB binding Pharo

2016-02-18 Thread François Stephany
Hi, Is there a libusb[1] binding for Pharo 4/5? After a quick google search, I've seen that Udo Schneider has started one last year. Any idea on its status? If not, would it be a nice summer job for a student (my company can pay for it...)? Cheers, Francois [1]: http://libusb.org/

Re: [Pharo-users] GSOC 2016

2016-02-18 Thread Sven Van Caekenberghe
OK, it is better is this is fully community supported and manageable. > On 18 Feb 2016, at 22:34, stepharo wrote: > > Sven > > We will migrate the html file to file.pharo.inria.fr > As well as the consultants.pharo.org. > > Stef > > > Le 17/2/16 09:52, Sven Van Caekenberghe a écrit : >> Last

Re: [Pharo-users] Customised auto-completion to give priority to specific packages

2016-02-18 Thread stepharo
I agree! I would really like to have another pass done on the ecompletion. Stef Le 19/8/15 19:04, Attila Magyar a écrit : It would be really nice to have real message completion in the debugger/inspector/workspace where the types of the variables are known. For example, when I'm debugging a met

Re: [Pharo-users] GSOC 2016

2016-02-18 Thread stepharo
Sven We will migrate the html file to file.pharo.inria.fr As well as the consultants.pharo.org. Stef Le 17/2/16 09:52, Sven Van Caekenberghe a écrit : Last year a CI job was created: https://ci.inria.fr/pharo-contribution/job/GeneratePharoTopicsPage/ I tried to revive it, but I can't find t

Re: [Pharo-users] What are immediate subclass and word variable subclass?

2016-02-18 Thread stepharo
Thanks Alex can you add the answer of eliot to the comments? Le 17/2/16 18:59, Alexandre Bergel a écrit : Thanks, I have defined https://pharo.fogbugz.com/f/cases/17625/The-immediateSubclass-and-variableSubclass-method-need-comments your comments are in a slice, waiting in the inbox Cheers, A

Re: [Pharo-users] GSOC 2016 Application update

2016-02-18 Thread stepharo
+1 Le 17/2/16 14:44, Alexandre Bergel a écrit : Thanks Serge! This is a very important effort you are leading Alexandre On Feb 17, 2016, at 5:27 AM, Serge Stinckwich wrote: Dear all, just a quick update to GSOC application of Pharo this year - We have enough topics I guess. I already s

Re: [Pharo-users] GSOC 2016 Application update

2016-02-18 Thread Alexandre Bergel
Ups… Thanks Peter! My mistake! Alexandre > On Feb 17, 2016, at 8:07 PM, PBKResearch wrote: > > Alexandre > > I would strongly disagree with your first proposed change. In my > understanding (English is my native language), 'popularity' is a mass noun, > not countable, hence the 'an' is inco

Re: [Pharo-users] Writing a dictionary as XML?

2016-02-18 Thread monty
  xml :=     XMLWriter writeWith: [:writer |         dict keysAndValuesDo: [:key :value |             writer                 tag: key                 with: value]]   Sent: Wednesday, February 17, 2016 at 12:46 PM From: "p...@highoctane.be" To: "Any question about pharo is welcome" Subject: [Ph

Re: [Pharo-users] [ANN] OSUnix and OSLinuxUbuntu on new UFFI

2016-02-18 Thread Esteban Lorenzano
> On 17 Feb 2016, at 22:37, Sebastian Heidbrink wrote: > > Hi, > > I don't want to spoil the great news, but actually the most recent changes > break Pharo 5.0 with SpurVM on Windows 8. > > UFFI must have brought something in there that makes Pharo crash. nope, this one is a VM stuff… people

Re: [Pharo-users] rollToArity: ?

2016-02-18 Thread Esteban Lorenzano
I’m not happy with the method name, but I think is well explained in method comments: ExternalAddress>>rollToArity: arity "This will 'roll' a pointer to a certain arity. What does this means? Let's say I have a method who will be called with a ** arity: method

Re: [Pharo-users] cleaning up Pharo images

2016-02-18 Thread Marcus Denker
Hi, There is right now a bug that images *never* shrink. https://pharo.fogbugz.com/f/cases/17240/Spur-When-saving-an-image-it-never-shrinks For Pharo4: > On 18 Feb 2016, at 11:20, Peter Uhnák wrote: > > Hi, > > is there a way to minimize/clean up Pharo image/changes files after an

[Pharo-users] cleaning up Pharo images

2016-02-18 Thread Peter Uhnák
Hi, is there a way to minimize/clean up Pharo image/changes files after an application has been installed into it? Currently I have the base image sitting at 65MB and changes at 36MB, which is massive considering only source code was added. I've tried running 'Smalltalk cleanUp: true', which I c

Re: [Pharo-users] GSOC 2016 Application update

2016-02-18 Thread Sven Van Caekenberghe
> On 18 Feb 2016, at 08:43, Serge Stinckwich wrote: > > Thanks to the amazing works of Peter and Uko, > we have always an updated gsoc web page here: http://gsoc.pharo.org/ > everytime you will edit the gsoc ideas topics list : > https://github.com/pharo-project/pharo-project-proposals/blob/mast

[Pharo-users] [ANN] OSUnix and OSLinuxUbuntu on new UFFI

2016-02-18 Thread Torsten Bergmann
Sebastian wrote: >I just know that Windows users should not replace their current images with >the latest >images yet. Otherwise they might have trouble. One always might have trouble when one uses the latest beta image and CI built VM. No need to warn about this. Nonetheless: