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Hi Christian --<div><br></div><div>This is great news! :-) Thank you for doing this. In a week or two, I will have some time again to help you out with Squeak-specific concerns.</div><div><br></div><div>Best,</div><div>Marcel</div><div class="mb_sig"></div><blockquote class='history_container' type='cite' style='border-left-style:solid;border-width:1px; margin-top:20px; margin-left:0px;padding-left:10px;'>
<p style='color: #AAAAAA; margin-top: 10px;'>Am 17.05.2022 19:27:33 schrieb Christian Haider <mail@christianhaider.de>:</p><div style='font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif'><div class="WordSection1"><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-CA">Hi Squeakers,<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">as some of you know, there is a project on the way for porting the PDFtalk library from VisualWorks to Squeak and other non-namespaced Smalltalks [1]. Now I can report a first significant achievement: the new version of the transformation tool was used successfully to produce the first fileOut of the full PDF library including tests [2].<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">Some simple massaging was needed, but now the fileOut should load into Squeak 6.0 without errors. The file is about 6 MB in size and takes around 8 minutes to load on my machine. There are lots of load warnings in the Transcript and many tests have errors, but all code loads and can be browsed and examined.<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 tool automatically rewrites namespaced names with prefixed globally unique names. This seems to work well and automates away much of the usual porting work.<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">Now I am looking for a Squeaker with an interest in PDF and/or the transformation tool and some time at hand to pair up for some coding. This is an exiting project… Heads up – who wants to be part of this?<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">[1] <a href="https://wiki.pdftalk.de/doku.php?id=pdftalknonnamespacefileout">https://wiki.pdftalk.de/doku.php?id=pdftalknonnamespacefileout</a><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-CA">[2] <a href="https://wiki.pdftalk.de/doku.php?id=portingblog#first_fileout_of_the_full_pdftalk_for_squeak_60">https://wiki.pdftalk.de/doku.php?id=portingblog#first_fileout_of_the_full_pdftalk_for_squeak_60</a><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">P.S. I hope that I am writing to the right list – apologies, if this is spam for you<o:p></o:p></span></p></div></div></blockquote>
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