Squeak-dev April 2012

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Croquet is back...even if not in smalltalk
by Enrico Spinielli 10 Apr '12

10 Apr '12

>From David A. Smith (the names have changed... No more islands, router) but the concepts - and even some slides drawings - are the same http://www.virtualworldframework.com/ See also the post from Nicolay http://nsuslovi.blogspot.com/2012/04/virtual-world-framework-aka-croquet-2.… Enjoy Enrico

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[ELECTION] IMPORTANT: Reminder on how to get onto voters list
by Göran Krampe 10 Apr '12

10 Apr '12

Hi folks! If you voted last year (or got a ballot in your inbox at least) then you are all set. You can stop reading now. Stop. Seriously, stop it. :) If you DID NOT get a ballot in your inbox last year, then you are NOT all set. You have 3 days to fix that, OR YOU WILL NOT BE ABLE TO VOTE. How to fix it? Let me repeat from the Election page: - Get a known Squeaker to vouch for you. If a known Squeaker sends an email to voters(a)squeak.org giving me name and email for you - then I will add you. - Send an email to voters(a)squeak.org presenting yourself with information/arguments showing me that you are indeed serious about voting and that you are indeed a Squeaker. And no, I don't have any hints on what you should write! :) Unless you totally screw that up, you will probably be added. And no, don't send me a 10 page essay ;) - When the voting period starts all voters will receive an email with instructions and a link to the voting website. All info here: http://wiki.squeak.org/squeak/6187 ...tick, tock, tick, tock... regards, Göran

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[ELECTION] Clock is ticking! Only 3 days left to announce candidacy!
by Göran Krampe 10 Apr '12

10 Apr '12

Howdy fellow Squeakers! Hope your bellies are stuffed with eggs and candy (or if you live in a part of the world that does not eat that stuff "en masse" this time of year, something equally nice) and you are getting ready for the Election 2012! As was noted in the SOB meeting notes: http://lists.squeakfoundation.org/pipermail/squeak-dev/2012-April/163653.ht… ...I require each candidate to announce their candidacy separately on squeak-dev - I should have said that more clearly, but it is like it has always been, and I did miss the note about the current SOB potentially all re-running (except from Jecel I think). Nevertheless - we have only *three* candidates this far and that is WAY TOO FEW! So please everyone, this is your chance to step up to the plate and get some new energy into Squeak (and I for one think we really need it!). There are only 3 days left and if we end up with too few candidates I will have to step outside of the framework and get creative - and I really, really hesitate to do that. regards, Göran

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Daily Commit Log
by commits＠source.squeak.org 10 Apr '12

10 Apr '12

Changes to Trunk (http://source.squeak.org/trunk.html) in the last 24 hours: http://lists.squeakfoundation.org/pipermail/packages/2012-April/005286.html Name: Collections-eem.471 Ancestors: Collections-nice.470 Fix TranscriptStream>ensureEndsWith: & ensureCr =============================================

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Croquet is back...even if not in smalltalk
by Chris Cunnington 10 Apr '12

10 Apr '12

Pretty amazing. And great to see. I guess I'll be finding out what COLLADA is. Chris

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shift-enclose broken in trunk...
by Eliot Miranda 09 Apr '12

09 Apr '12

Hi All, in the current 4.3 trunk shift-enclose on Mac doesn't work, it performs the unshifted enclose. e.g. command-shift-single-quote (which is double quote) encloses with a single quote. I think this is an image issue. It has been fine in my Qwaq/Teleplace image for ages, but in testing I see it is broken in 4.2 also. Anyone have any idea what's going on here? -- best, Eliot

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Declaration Of Candidacy
by Chris Cunnington 09 Apr '12

09 Apr '12

Hi fellow Squeakers, I wanted to be on the Squeak Oversight Board a year ago to associate with better programmers and therefore become better with Squeak. And that's how being on the SOB has benefited me. That's why I'd like to be on the SOB again. Of course, I wasn't elected last year for what the Squeak community could do for me, but what I could do for the Squeak community. In the past year I've been to ESUG 2011, STIC 2012, kept the minutes for the board meetings, innovated by posting them as they happen on Squeak-Dev, assisted with the release of Squeak 4.3, encouraged the creation of a Squeak G+ (which no longer exists), been part of the transition of SOB meetings from Teleplace to G+, updated the squeak.org site, and annoyed every single one of my fellow SOB members except Jecel. There's just no reaching some people. I plan to do it all again. And more. Squeak 4.4 will be based on Cog. I'd like to see Colin's Filesystem included in 4.4 and the declaration that FileDirectory is deprecated for removal a year later. I'm in the process of setting up a Jenkins server so we can run tests more regularly on the trunk, as it's evolving. That should heave into view this month. I'm interested in working on an improved Squeak Map based on scripts, and I have plans for that, but I can't start working on that for a few months, after the Jenkins, and a few more things get off my desk. We have long term plans about shrinking the core image and making masses of packages easy to add and remove. There are two things about that which are clear to me. It's not the highest priority. We need to create suitable infrastructure and get a clear view into the crystal of the image to see where the fault lines are for the calving of that glacier. The second thing is that when the circumstances are right the progress will not be incremental, but a quantum leap. When we have laid things out in our minds about how it all should work, I imagine the event will be instantaneous - from supernova to neutron star. Bang. All this to say, because you don't see appreciable change toward a smaller core image, that doesn't mean it isn't happening. I think the ultimate change will be a sudden collapse. Like a roof. I'll say something about the year we had: it's hard to follow Andreas. In comparison to him any SOB year is going to look a little dull. I think we wallowed a bit and re-found the things we felt were important. I think we did that and this year will build on last year and things will move a little more conspicuously. One of these days, Andreas will come back, and when he does, I think the circumstances will have been created by this board to more broadly assist him in propelling Squeak into its future. Thanks, Chris

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The Trunk: Collections-eem.471.mcz
by commits＠source.squeak.org 09 Apr '12

09 Apr '12

Eliot Miranda uploaded a new version of Collections to project The Trunk: http://source.squeak.org/trunk/Collections-eem.471.mcz ==================== Summary ==================== Name: Collections-eem.471 Author: eem Time: 8 April 2012, 5:16:02.533 pm UUID: ddf0731e-45e0-42a2-bd10-7f65ab12fe6f Ancestors: Collections-nice.470 Fix TranscriptStream>ensureEndsWith: & ensureCr =============== Diff against Collections-nice.470 =============== Item was changed: WriteStream subclass: #TranscriptStream + instanceVariableNames: 'lastChar' - instanceVariableNames: '' classVariableNames: 'AccessSema' poolDictionaries: '' category: 'Collections-Streams'! !TranscriptStream commentStamp: '<historical>' prior: 0! This class is a much simpler implementation of Transcript protocol that supports multiple views and very simple conversion to morphic. Because it inherits from Stream, it is automatically compatible with code that is designe to write to streams.! Item was added: + ----- Method: TranscriptStream>>contents (in category 'accessing') ----- + contents + ^AccessSema critical: + [| contents sz | + contents := super contents. (sz := contents size) > 0 ifTrue: + [lastChar := contents at: sz]. + contents]! Item was added: + ----- Method: TranscriptStream>>ensureEndsWith: (in category 'accessing') ----- + ensureEndsWith: anObject + "Append anObject to the receiver IFF there is not one on the end." + + lastChar = anObject ifTrue: [^self]. + super ensureEndsWith: anObject!

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Daily Commit Log
by commits＠source.squeak.org 09 Apr '12

09 Apr '12

Changes to Trunk (http://source.squeak.org/trunk.html) in the last 24 hours: http://lists.squeakfoundation.org/pipermail/packages/2012-April/005283.html Name: Tools-eem.400 Ancestors: Tools-nice.399 Make MessageNames pattern text enlargeable (needed now MessageNames can take many semi-colon separated patterns) ============================================= http://lists.squeakfoundation.org/pipermail/packages/2012-April/005284.html Name: System-eem.482 Ancestors: System-eem.481 allMethodsSelect:localTo: aClass ============================================= http://lists.squeakfoundation.org/pipermail/packages/2012-April/005285.html Name: Morphic-eem.617 Ancestors: Morphic-cwp.616 Hack fix for shift-enclose-' which at least gives enclose for the comment character ". But still no shift-enclose for | (which maybe shifted \) or < (which may be shifted ,). =============================================

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OK, I'll throw my hat in the ring for the 2012 board
by merlyn＠stonehenge.com 09 Apr '12

09 Apr '12

I'll admit it. My day job*s* consume most of my time now. This is the full-on opposite of the situation when I put my hat in the ring for the 2008 board. I was broke (no income) and broken (arm) and bummed (the market crash reduced the value of my house by a full third, putting me heavily underwater, and my dad and uncle had both recently passed away). But I had rediscovered this thing from my younger days. Smalltalk, particularly in the form of Squeak, and the Seaside framework that made it a whole lot easier to debug webapps and carry state around. And GLASS, which gave me access to commercial-grade VMs when I wanted to scale. In the midst of so much sadness, this made me happy. So I created a blog, and spoke out about Squeak on a dozen podcasts (including my own). And I spoke bravely of the "year of squeak", inspiring others (including many of my fan base) to take a look at that silly little toy language with decades of history. Lots of action back then. Lots of inspiration. This past year, my work schedule has interrupted my attending about 20% of the bi-weekly board meetings, and it seems like I have not much to offer except making promises that never find time to complete, which I regret later. However, I'm still inspired by Squeak. I have a client that has committed to a major code rewrite of their customer-facing site in Seaside and jQuery before the end of this year, so I'll be dusting off the old images soon. I'm also working to migrate the squeak.org websites to a more accessible platform (running jailed in a FreeBSD VM, on ZFS so point-in-time snapshotting and journaling are all available). I also still have a voice and a following, and whether or not I'm reelected to this year's board, I will still speak fondly of Squeak. So, I beg you, if you find a candidate that's likely to make more than 80% of the meetings (and have time to take on more outside tasks), please choose them. But otherwise, I'm there, and will continue to do what I can, even if it's not everything I want. The rest of the board also said that if I don't run again this year, the meetings will be far more boring, since I'm also the jester in the group. Consider this my official announcement. If y'all have questions, I'll watch for them here in squeak-dev. Thank you. -- Randal L. Schwartz - Stonehenge Consulting Services, Inc. - +1 503 777 0095 <merlyn(a)stonehenge.com> <URL:http://www.stonehenge.com/merlyn/> Smalltalk/Perl/Unix consulting, Technical writing, Comedy, etc. etc. See http://methodsandmessages.posterous.com/ for Smalltalk discussion

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