[squeak-dev] The Inbox: EToys-cbc.293.mcz

H. Hirzel hannes.hirzel at gmail.com
Tue Oct 16 16:48:11 UTC 2018


On 4/20/17, Eliot Miranda <eliot.miranda at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi Chris,
>
>> On Apr 19, 2017, at 7:57 PM, Chris Cunningham <cunningham.cb at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>> Actually, Elliot, did you want to keep it in the image?  I was removing it
>> pursuant to Bert's suggestion.
>
> No, which is why I suggested putting it in some new package.  It shouldn't
> get lost; someone may find it useful, and the Pharo folks are usually by the
> vm father nationality to support Athens.
>
>>
>> After removing it myself, and then doing a Smalltalk garbageCollect, it is
>> no longer anywhere in the image (or Undeclared, either).  (Although
>> BlockContext is, but that's another issue.)
>>
>> I have added a new package for it if you want to keep it around.  We went
>> here because the ExternalForm was removed from FFI and put into EToys, and
>> then Bert said it wasn't used in EToys (and it isn't).
>
> Thanks
>
>>
>> Now in package: http://source.squeak.org/inbox/GraphicsExternal-cbc.1.mcz
>
> Great!

Eliot, you asked in the thread of today 16th October
     'Where is ExternalForm?  '

about this package.

To check which one is more recent.

--Hannes

>>
>> Thanks,
>> cbc
>>
>>> On Wed, Apr 19, 2017 at 4:47 PM, Eliot Miranda <eliot.miranda at gmail.com>
>>> wrote:
>>> Hi All,
>>>
>>>     can we please do something like put it in a new package called
>>> GraphicsExternal or FFI-External?  Or put it in FFI-Examples?  It's
>>> orphaned in my work image at the moment :-(.
>>>
>>>> On Mon, Apr 17, 2017 at 1:01 PM, Chris Cunningham
>>>> <cunningham.cb at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>> Hi.
>>>>
>>>> there are now two options in the inbox.
>>>> First move http://source.squeak.org/inbox/FFI-Tests-cbc.9.mcz to Trunk
>>>> to get the test for ExternalForm out of FFI (since ExternalForm is no
>>>> longer in FFI).
>>>> Then, either:
>>>> 1> move http://source.squeak.org/inbox/EToys-cbc.293.mcz to trunk (to
>>>> keep ExternalForm in the image, if desired, but add the test to EToys),
>>>> or
>>>> 2> move http://source.squeak.org/inbox/EToys-cbc.294.mcz to trunk, to
>>>> competely remove ExternalForm and ExternalScreen from Squeak, since they
>>>> are no longer used (also doesn't has the test removed).
>>>>
>>>> Thanks,
>>>> cbc
>>>>
>>>>> On Mon, Apr 17, 2017 at 10:12 AM, Bert Freudenberg
>>>>> <bert at freudenbergs.de> wrote:
>>>>> Hi Chris,
>>>>>
>>>>> thanks for looking into this! ExternalForm is not used by Etoys, so it
>>>>> should just be removed along with the test. I guess it's a leftover
>>>>> from Balloon3D.
>>>>>
>>>>> For the FFI package, you could submit a fixed version to the Inbox and
>>>>> any core developer can move it to the FFI repo.
>>>>>
>>>>> - Bert -
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>> <snip>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> --
>>> _,,,^..^,,,_
>>> best, Eliot
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>
>>
>


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