On 8 August 2011 00:15, Levente Uzonyi <leves at elte.hu> wrote:
> On Fri, 5 Aug 2011, Frank Shearar wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> I did some work yesterday [1] getting Coral (a scripting framework for
>> Pharo: http://www.squeaksource.com/Coral.html) working in Trunk. I
>> made a few adjustments to Coral itself, mailing Oscar Nierstrasz the
>> changes (what look to be getting Coral to work with the latest
>> Filesystem code, post-large-refactor), and had to add a few methods to
>> Squeak that Coral was expecting. Presumably these were methods renamed
>> by Pharo:
>>
>> Character >> join:
>> String >> join:
>> Class >> addInstVarNamed:
>> MetaClass >> addInstVarNamed:
>> Class >> subclass:
>> SmalltalkImage >> vmFullPath
>> Symbol >> isBinary
>
> There's no #join: in Squeak, the rest seem to be just renamed methods.

Indeed so: supplying the obvious delegations and behaviours got me a
green bar in the Coral test suite.

>> My question's a bit broader: there are many more Pharo developers than
>> Squeak developers, it seems. They're doing lots of cool stuff. We can
>
> I'd rather say that Pharo developers talk a lot more about what they do,
> than Squeak developers.
>
>> easily port these cool things to Squeak (at least, at the moment). If
>> anyone else is doing this kind've thing, perhaps it's worthwhile
>> either adding these kinds of methods to Grease, or having a general
>> "Pharoisms" package.
>
> I vote for the general package.

As a first stab, then, let's just rename what I have:

Installer ss project: 'CoralSqueak'; install: 'Coralsqueak'.

frank

> Levente
>
>>
>> It's not all one-way, of course: having things easily loadable into
>> Squeak means that Squeak hackers (like me) can more easily contribute
>> to interesting packages (like Coral) without having to keep track of
>> two communities. (Coral could, with some love, become a full REPL,
>> which is something I really want.)
>>
>> frank
>>
>> [1]
>> http://stackoverflow.com/questions/6938114/a-smalltalk-implementation-with-the-perfect-feature-set/6948945#6948945
>>
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