On 27 December 2011 16:19, Lawson English <lenglish5 at cox.net> wrote:
> Hi Nicolas, no I haven't. This is basically for my Newbies tutorials for
> Squeak and Friends, and if I have to start doing that, it is no longer a
> newbie tutorial. At this level, even using Monticello to load a new package
> is a big deal.
>
> Besides I'm lazy, and fiddling with settings isn't a long term fix which is
> what the community needs in order to, say, attract IRC bot writers (a
> discussion on #programming at irc.freenode.net on the best language to write an
> IRC bot in prompted my interest in the package in the first place, and then
> I found that I had to debug the libraries before I could do a tutorial on
> how to bring up the simple client, letalone do a simple bot).

I suspect you're looking at the wrong package then! Try
http://www.squeaksource.com/IRCBot out - I once knocked up a little
bot that acted like a REPL - give it a Smalltalk expression and it
evaluates it and returns the answer - in, if I recall correctly, maybe
half an hour from cold start.

frank

>
> L.
>
>
> On 12/27/11 5:48 AM, Nicolas Cellier wrote:
>>
>> Have you tried to open preferences, and play with Compiler settings ?
>> - allow block argument assignment
>> - allow underscore assignment
>> etc...
>>
>> Nicolas
>>
>> 2011/12/26 Lawson English<lenglish5 at cox.net>:
>>>
>>> On 12/26/11 1:07 PM, Frank Shearar wrote:
>>>>
>>>> On 26 December 2011 16:17, Lawson English<lenglish5 at cox.net>    wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> has anyone used the irc client lately?
>>>>>
>>>>> MCHttpRepository
>>>>>    location: 'http://www.squeaksource.com/IRC'
>>>>>    user: ''
>>>>>    password: ''
>>>>>
>>>>> Using 4.3, it breaks with syntax errors at too many places for me to
>>>>> figure
>>>>> out how to correct on-the-fly.
>>>>>
>>>>> Just wondering if anyone has used it and gotten it to work recently.
>>>>
>>>> I didn't _use_ the client, but I happily loaded Network-IRC, -GUI,
>>>> -Model, and -IRCTests.
>>>>
>>>> frank
>>>>
>>>>
>>> There's missing methods (thought Monticello was supposed to catch that)
>>> and
>>> lots of strange little syntax errors having to do with individual
>>> characters
>>> and bytesymbols.
>>>
>>> L.
>>>
>>
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