Squeak-dev October 2006

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Spoon progress 3 October 2006: SystemDictionary deleted
by Craig Latta 04 Oct '06

04 Oct '06

Hi-- I have successfully removed class SystemDictionary (and its sole instance, "Smalltalk") from the minimal object memory. There is now no global state per se, only a few objects that the VM knows about via the "special objects array". As I described before[1], each method literal for referring to a class is the responsibility of the class itself (stored in the "name" slot provided by Class). Now I'm moving on with creating a "hello world" module (one that just draws anything to the display). I plan to make another release when that works. more to come, -C [1] http://lists.squeakfoundation.org/pipermail/spoon/2006-July/000124.html -- Craig Latta http://netjam.org/resume

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Re: using services: Any plan to accomodate icons?
by Peace Jerome 04 Oct '06

04 Oct '06

Hi Romain, I finally remembered my other queation. I've quite gotten to like the dgd instigated icons that decorate the menus and the explorers. Do services provide a way to include them? I notice that the annotations <yes> and <no> will decorate the menu item with the filled or unfilled check box. Can anything furthur be used? Yours in curiosity, -- Jerome Peace __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com

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Is OSProcess usable in Squeak 3.9 on Windows/XP yet?
by Simon Guest 04 Oct '06

04 Oct '06

Hi, I'm trying to use OSProcess on Windows/XP with Squeak 3.9, and am now chaining back up the list of other things I need in place to do that. Apparently I need OSProcessPlugin (for new VM primitives to provide access to OS facilities not available in the base VM). To install OSProcessPlugin, I need VMMaker. Apparently VMMaker is not yet ready for Squeak 3.9 on Windows. Does this mean I need to go back to Squeak 3.8 for now? cheers, Simon

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News Team Report for September, 2006
by Giovanni Corriga 03 Oct '06

03 Oct '06

The purpose of the News team is to publish news regarding Squeak development and use. It aims to provide a service to the Squeak community, highlighting anything which the Squeak users may find interesting in The Weekly Squeak newszine. It will also try to promote Squeak outside its own community, by submitting articles and news items to mainstream websites such as Slashdot and OSNews. After a nine months hiatus, The Weekly Squeak is back in business, but now in blog form. The blog, which is available at http://weeklysqueak.wordpress.com , is getting roughly 80 hits per day, and its feed has been added to the Planet Smalltalk and Planet Squeak aggregators. The most important open issues are: 1. At the moment, I'm the only one able to publish contents to the blog, even if other contributors can write article which I have to approve. This will likely change in the future once we get the hang of the thing. 2. The blog is somewhat disconnected from the mailing lists; we should start sending weekly summaries to the squeak-dev, beginners and announcements lists. 3. The only mailing lists tracked at the moment are squeak-dev and seaside. Proposed actions, scheduled for October: 1. Try to add one or two posts to the blog everyday. 2. Resume production of weekly summaries to be sent to the mailing list(s). 3. Try to find some more contributors, and start tracking more mailing lists. Long term actions 1. start producing articles to be sent to mainstream news sites. 2. move the blog to news.squeak.org maybe? 3. change the look of the blog to resemble the one of www.squeak.org The News team has a mailing list (news at lists.squeakfoundation.org, subscribe at http://lists.squeakfoundation.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/news ). Everyone can subscribe to the list, even if just for lurking, but new team members are always welcome ;) Giovanni

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Re: authors for 3.9
by ncellier＠ifrance.com 03 Oct '06

03 Oct '06

Same for nicolas cellier (nice). Personally I prefer MIT, but I let Squeakfoundation choose whatever appropriate. Anyway do little changes really give us any right on existing code? I guess not. Le Mardi 03 Octobre 2006 15:10, Stéphane Rollandin a écrit : > same here (spfa) > > Stef > > >> Changes by kfr, which are mine initials (Karl Ramberg), are released > >> under the license of choice for the Squeakfoundation. > > > > Same thing for the changes authored by rr. ________________________________________________________________________ iFRANCE, exprimez-vous ! http://web.ifrance.com

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October Portland Smalltalk Users Group Meeting
by Eric Winger 03 Oct '06

03 Oct '06

We're going to be holding our next Portland Smalltalk Users group meeting next week, October 10th at 7pm. Details are here: http://www.cincomsmalltalk.com/userblogs/eric/blogView? showComments=true&entry=3337289535 All are welcome. Eric

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more info please about apache license and squeak
by stephane ducasse 03 Oct '06

03 Oct '06

http://laptop.media.mit.edu/laptopnews.nsf/latest/news 2. Alan Kay reports that Steve Jobs has agreed to relicense Squeak under the Apache License so we can include it with the base software in the laptop. how does it interact with APSL 20. for which version of squeak? Stef

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Plopp US/English?
by David Faught 03 Oct '06

03 Oct '06

>Blake wrote: >> Is there an English version of Plopp planned? Can one have it >> shipped to the US? Michael Rueger wrote: >Planned yes. You can order plopp on the German amazon.de site, don't >know if they ship to the US though. > >BTW, does anyone have a suggestion for a different name for the English >version? Seems the connotations of plopp aren't making it a suitable >name in English ;-) As interested as I am in supporting Squeak-based products, I can tell you that the competition for my money is Cosmic Blobs http://www.cosmicblobs.com/ The marketing and web site is very slick, it is reasonably priced, and I am thinking that it may be a superior technology in some respects. Although I may buy the English version of Plopp anyway, if and when it becomes available. Has anyone done anything with real-time metaballs modeling in Squeak? As for an English name for Plopp, how about: 3D Playground, Kids 3D Sketching, Swell, Billow, No Huff No Puff, Balloon 3D, Bear Bolster, 3D Pump, Pooch, Inflation Creation ...

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Re: Collecting actions for RC2
by Chris Muller 03 Oct '06

03 Oct '06

Yeeooww! Somehow this slipped through the cracks. http://bugs.impara.de/view.php?id=1621 Somehow only part of the above code, the new SUnit test, got included in 7061. The test fails because the actual fix code did not get included. Would you mind file in the all the code attached to the above and include this in the next RC? Thanks..

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Re: Squeak on the Nokia 770
by Damien Pollet 03 Oct '06

03 Oct '06

On 10/3/06, Dan Ingalls <Dan(a)squeakland.org> wrote: > Has anyone ported Squeak to the Nokia 770? I have this in my bookmarks, untested. http://tech.inhelsinki.nl/2006-08-29/ -- Damien Pollet type less, do more

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