<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body dir="auto"><br><br><div dir="ltr"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">_,,,^..^,,,_ (phone)</span></div><div dir="ltr"><br>Begin forwarded message:<br><br></div><blockquote type="cite"><div dir="ltr"><b>From:</b> Christian Haider <christian.haider@smalltalked-visuals.com><br><b>Date:</b> February 1, 2022 at 1:44:59 AM PST<br><b>To:</b> vwnc@lists.cs.illinois.edu<br><b>Subject:</b> <b>[vwnc] [PDFtalk] Porting the library to non-namespace Smalltalks</b><br><b>Reply-To:</b> christian.haider@smalltalked-visuals.com<br><br></div></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><div dir="ltr"><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=us-ascii"><meta name="Generator" content="Microsoft Word 15 (filtered medium)"><style><!--
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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--><div class="WordSection1"><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-CA">Hi,<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-CA"><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-CA">a new project started to port the PDF library PDFtalk [1] to Smalltalk dialects without namespaces.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-CA"><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-CA">There has been some interest in the past for such a port. Unfortunately, after the first excitement, I never heard of these attempts anymore, so that I think that they were abandoned. It would be interesting to hear why.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-CA"><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-CA">If there is still interest in getting PDFtalk into your Smalltalk, here is the chance to help and participate. I will try to do the port in the open and document everything on the wiki [1], so that lurkers can follow and helpers can comment.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-CA"><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-CA">A project page has been set up [2] and I started a log [3] where I record in detail what I am doing for porting the Values package.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-CA"><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-CA">The port is done with code transformations generating the source for the target dialect. You can find some documentation about the approach here [4].<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-CA"><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-CA">All these pages need work, so comments will be appreciated.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-CA"><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-CA">Happy hacking,<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-CA"> Christian<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-CA"><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-CA"><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-CA">[1] <a href="https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://wiki.pdftalk.de/doku.php?id=start__;!!DZ3fjg!pSUzKKRHc-bxj7Cuh8skJxpib0fRbHPMunGYjzwSDM6TB4QmQbo9_87z2DWWWXrEKO8dNuI$">https://wiki.pdftalk.de/doku.php?id=start</a><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-CA">[2] <a href="https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://wiki.pdftalk.de/doku.php?id=pdftalknonnamespacefileout__;!!DZ3fjg!pSUzKKRHc-bxj7Cuh8skJxpib0fRbHPMunGYjzwSDM6TB4QmQbo9_87z2DWWWXrEQMyexYQ$">https://wiki.pdftalk.de/doku.php?id=pdftalknonnamespacefileout</a><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-CA">[3] <a href="https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://wiki.pdftalk.de/doku.php?id=valuesportinglog__;!!DZ3fjg!pSUzKKRHc-bxj7Cuh8skJxpib0fRbHPMunGYjzwSDM6TB4QmQbo9_87z2DWWWXrEwUns6bA$">https://wiki.pdftalk.de/doku.php?id=valuesportinglog</a><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-CA">[4] <a href="https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://wiki.pdftalk.de/doku.php?id=smalltalktransform__;!!DZ3fjg!pSUzKKRHc-bxj7Cuh8skJxpib0fRbHPMunGYjzwSDM6TB4QmQbo9_87z2DWWWXrErpsCiaY$">https://wiki.pdftalk.de/doku.php?id=smalltalktransform</a><o:p></o:p></span></p></div></div></blockquote></body></html>