Squeak-dev March 2014

squeak-dev@lists.squeakfoundation.org

52 participants
139 discussions

Running headless on a Mac
by Frank Shearar 03 Jul '16

03 Jul '16

OK, so I've run out of patience in my flailing around. All I want is to run a headless image on a Mac (so I can unbreak the SqueakTrunk-OSX job, which _used_ to work). How? Do I say "-headless"? ("could not find module vm-display-X11") "-vm-display-null -headless"? ("squeak: could not find any sound driver") "-vm-sound-null -vm-display-null -headless"? ("could not find module vm-sound-null") I don't mind whether I use Cog or Interpreter, as long as I can just get an image running tests. Thanks! frank

8 11

Breaking up ToolBuilder
by Frank Shearar 17 Feb '16

17 Feb '16

I noticed this morning that every package that uses ToolBuilder has a transitive dependency on both Morphic and MVC (in the form of the ST80 package). This is caused by MorphicToolBuilder and MVCToolBuilder. I suggest either rename 'ToolBuilder-Morphic' to 'Morphic-ToolBuilder' and 'ToolBuilder-MVC' to 'ST80-ToolBuilder' (or'MVC-ToolBuilder'). This would move Morphic-specific stuff where it belongs, and ditto for MVC. frank

7 13

Environments update
by Colin Putney 25 Nov '15

25 Nov '15

Hi all, So I've been plugging away at Environments, and have a new implementation that supports renaming, but I wanted to get some feedback before figuring out the sequence of commits necessary to update the trunk safely. The idea is to support this kind of scenario: seaside := (Environment named: #Seaside) import: Smalltalk globals; importSelf; exportSelf; yourself. magma := (Environment named: #Magma) import: Smalltalk globals; importSelf; exportSelf; yourself. app := (Environment named: #AwesomeApp) import: Smalltalk globals; import: seaside; from: seaside import: {#Session -> #SeasideSession}; import: magma; from: magma import: {#Session -> #MagmaSession}; importSelf; exportSelf; yourself. In order to have the decompiled code use the correct names, I've changed the way lookup works. Instead of moving bindings from one environment to another, we now create a separate set of bindings for each environment, and copy the values (i.e., classes and globals) into a new binding when a binding is imported. I had originally thought to use something like #changed:/#update: to keep all the bindings in sync, but then I realized that ClassBuilder does a #becomeForward: updates a class. So it's really only globals that could become out of sync between environments. Since we have very few globals in the image, and they basically never change, an update mechanism may not be necessary in practice. So, here are some possible ways to proceed: 1. Use #changed:/#update: or something similar to keep keep global variables in sync. 2. Idea from Eliot—adopt the same convention as VW, and send #value to the binding on every access. Then we could have a special Alias bindings that forward the #value message to the original binding. 3. Share bindings for global variables between environments and disallow renaming of globals. 4. Special case the traditional globals such as Transcript and Display, and disallow the creation of new globals. Anyhow, I'd appreciate a code review from anybody who's interested in this stuff. To take a look, file the attached (hand edited) change set into an updated trunk image. Thanks, Colin

6 21

Re: [squeak-dev] Ometa vs XTreams PEG, PetitParser, Helvetia
by Hannes Hirzel 08 Apr '15

08 Apr '15

On 3/30/11, Nikolay Suslov <nsuslovi(a)gmail.com> wrote: > >From conceptual and practical point of view, > OMeta - is not yet another "system tool" written for Squeak or another fork, > in contrary to XTreams (a generalized stream/iterator framework written in > Smalltalk) burned in Pharo. OMeta is a language which allows to simplify an > existed tools in it's hosted language (Squeak, Pharo, JavaScript, etc) where > it is implemented, while not porting, learning and using another ones, like > XTreams. So, redefined tools with OMeta could become really portable and > mobile, ready for using in any other fork, even in another language, like > JavaScript. > > Regards, > Nikolay XTreams is primarily a generalized stream/iterator framework. It contains PEG parser generation facilities, which I assume might use XTreams. If not the PEG parser stuff could be separated. Nikolay, what you write is interesting but too terse for me to understand. If I understand you right you mean that OMeta goes beyond the PEG parser in XTreams and PetitParser (L. Renggli) and Helvetia (L Renggli). In which ways does OMeta go beyond these other tools? AND: Of course very welcome that you run for the board. --Hannes

8 11

Shrinking
by Colin Putney 19 Oct '14

19 Oct '14

Hi folks, What's the state of the art in shrinking these days? I'm starting a new web project with Squeak, and I want to create a smallish base image that I can use to build up images for development and deployment. It doesn't have to be absolutely minimal, just unloading unnecessary code and cleaning up the registries, clearing caches etc would fine. I tried "Smalltalk shrinkAndCleanDesktop", but it complains about obsolete behaviours still being present, so I guess there's some bit rot there. Suggestions? Colin

10 24

OpenGL procedural textures generator (by David Faught) for Squeak 4.4
by Nikolay Suslov 09 Jun '14

09 Jun '14

Hello, I have successfully proceeded in running TweakCore on the recent Squeak 4.4 trunk image (from Jenkins). And one of the famous existed applications developed in Tweak is the OpenGL procedural textures generator by David Faught. I make it also loadable to the current Squeak. You could download the ready to run image from here: http://krestianstvo.org/TweakCoreOpenGL-squeak44.zip or execute in the workspace in own image: "1. Load FFI" (Installer repository: 'http://source.squeak.org/FFI' ) install: 'FFI-Pools'; install: 'FFI-Kernel'; install: 'FFI-Tests'.. "2. Load CroquetGL " (Installer repository: 'http://www.squeaksource.com/CroquetGL') install: '3DTransform'; install: 'OpenGL-Pools'; install: 'OpenGL-Core'. "3. Load TweakCore and Procedural textures application for Tweak" (Installer repository: 'http://sdk.krestianstvo.org/sdk/inbox') install: 'tweakcore'; install: 'Tweak-OpenGL-sn.3'. "4. Set the default settings in Tweak" CDefaultWidgetLibrary setDefaultSettings. "5. Run one of two examples" CProjectMorph open: Wrinkle1. "or" CProjectMorph open: Wrinkle2. The attached screenshot shows the running application. Regards, Nikolay

7 9

Re: The new site looks great! [EOM]
by Chris Cunnington 15 Apr '14

15 Apr '14

>There have recently been some very impressive announcements from Michael Perscheid about the Path Tools Framework OK. I'll add a link in the Projects section. Eliot's right about the link to squeakvm.org. It's the first at the bottom of the Virtual Machine page. Chris

4 4

SMServer beta online
by Chris Cunnington 01 Apr '14

01 Apr '14

http://box4.squeak.org:9971/seaside/ss Here's a beta to replace map.squeak.org. Not all of the features work (Join, New Proejct, Save in the Your Project form). I didn't see much point in doing everything until qmail is installed on box4. It's Seaside2.8 and SS2. (Well, I've removed Magritte and re-installed SSTableReport, so perhaps I'm hacking SS2Retro). I'll save SS2Retro to its own repo. I'll then push SMServer to the SqueakServices repo. Chris

6 7

[ANN} FunSqueak is coming to 4.6
by Edgar J. De Cleene 01 Apr '14

01 Apr '14

For now, have loaded OSProcess and CommandShell, plus the classic MorphicGames re-created. Also have my MultimediaMonticello (old ProcustesEnd) for you can load things like my MorphicPuzzle. I listen to request for put your favorite projects into. Edgar

4 6

Daily Commit Log
by commits＠source.squeak.org 31 Mar '14

31 Mar '14

Changes to Trunk (http://source.squeak.org/trunk.html) in the last 24 hours: http://lists.squeakfoundation.org/pipermail/packages/2014-March/006997.html Name: Tests-cwp.294 Ancestors: Tests-cwp.293 Add a test for class renaming. ============================================= http://lists.squeakfoundation.org/pipermail/packages/2014-March/006998.html Name: Environments-cwp.50 Ancestors: Environments-cwp.49 Create a new binding when renaming classes. =============================================

1 0

Jump to page: