Squeak-dev March 2004

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Reminder: Harvesting Party TODAY 00:00 GMT (Thursday evening in the US)
by Ken Causey 04 Mar '04

04 Mar '04

Just a reminder that the next Harvesting Party will take place between 00:00 (Midnight) and 04:00 (4 AM) GMT Friday February 5th, 2004. This is 7 PM US Eastern Standard Time on Thursday. As usual we will meet on #squeak on irc.freenode.net. More information about the #squeak IRC channel can be found at http://people.squeakfoundation.org/article/7.html Information about the Harvesting Party idea can be found at http://people.squeakfoundation.org/article/29.html If you have the time please attend and work toward the future of Squeak. The next seven parties are scheduled for 04:00 (4 AM) GMT Tuesday March 9th 2004 08:00 (8 AM) GMT Saturday March 13th 2004 12:00 (Noon) GMT Wednesday March 17th 2004 16:00 (4 PM) GMT Sunday March 21st 2004 20:00 (8 PM) GMT Thursday March 25th 2004 00:00 (12:00 AM) GMT Tuesday March 30, 2004 04:00 (04:00 AM) GMT Saturday April 03, 2004

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[BUG][BFAV] Possible bug in title generation
by Frank Shearar 04 Mar '04

04 Mar '04

Say you've got a thread with title "[BUG][3.7a-5764] FileContentsBrowser class side double clicking" and you review a reply to that post. The title of the (email containing the) reply is, say, "RE: [BUG][3.7a-5764] FileContentsBrowser class side double clicking" So you open up your DecentReviewerNotePad and bung out a reply. You send the reply, and wonder why the reply doesn't join the thread. It's because the DRNP sent your mail with the title "RE: [BUG] [3.7a-5764] FileContentsBrowser class side double clicking" Note the space between "[BUG]" and "[3.7a-5764]". I've not looked into what exactly is going on here. Possibly it's just that BFAV is very finicky with parsing/matching the title? I mean, I'd think that whitespace around the tags would be ignored, but that's just an off-the-cuff feeling with no thought around it (like, how exactly do you know what whitespace is OK to ignore and what not?, etc). This is with version 2.08. frank

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BUG] [BFAV] MessageNotUnderstood: FileList2 class>>morphicViewOn:withLabel: frank.shearar at rnid.org.uk
by Steve Moffitt 04 Mar '04

04 Mar '04

Hi Frank-- I got that same message in BFAV when I tried to open attachments. Looking at older images I found the message morphicViewOn: withLabel: on the instance side of FileList2 so copied it to class side in currant image and it seemed to fix it. Steve

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RE: Squeak readable to most people on this list, but is it to eve ryone?
by Oca Emilio 04 Mar '04

04 Mar '04

> > I find a series of short lines with good temp > > variable names far easier to read than long Smalltalk lines. > > > > Me, too. ( And I also use parens a fair amount :)) My preferences are: a) To write Smalltalk expressions, one for each of the steps required to get done a method's intention or work. b) Don't use temp if they are not relevant to the essence of that method. c) If a expression gets to big or complex, split it in several conceptual lines (here is where prityPrint fails for me). d) If b) becomes necessary or c) becomes unreadable, it's time to build new methods. On parents, I prefer to make clear for anyone (expert or not) reading my code the way expressions are solved. I tend to add unnecessary parents to achieve this. It happened to me the need to read code on other languages with more complex syntax and precedence, and I pretend to avoid that experience to the ones who read my code. Regards Emilio

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[BUG] [BFAV] MessageNotUnderstood: FileList2 class>>morphicViewOn:withLabel:
by frank.shearar＠rnid.org.uk 04 Mar '04

04 Mar '04

Using version 2.08, I selected Hans-Martin's fix (archive ID 20514) and selected "view attachments" and got the above-mentioned error. frank

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[ENH] DeclareClass-rr (sm) (
by rrobbes＠info.unicaen.fr 04 Mar '04

04 Mar '04

from preamble: "Change Set: DeclareClass Date: 4 March 2004 Author: rr Adds an option when a global variable is not found, which is to define a new class named like it, instead of merely defining a global variable. Modifies a method and adds one. Example : NewClass new inspect. ""asks to define the class"" NewClass removeFromSystem. ""Removes it so you can play with it again :-) "" "!

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Re: [BUG] can't find EOCD position when loading SqueakSource fromSqueakMap
by Adrian Lienhard 04 Mar '04

04 Mar '04

Hi Bernhard bernhard(a)pieber.com wrote: > Thanks for setting up the SqueakSource repository! I find it really > cool and wanted to try to set up my own server for playing around. > However, I did not come far. > > I tried to load SqueakSource 76 from SqueakMap and I got the following > error: > 'Error occurred during install: > can''t find EOCD position' > > I tried it with Squeak3.7alpha-5707 and Squeak3.6 and got the same > error. > > I just wanted to let you know about that. Thanks for the bug report. There has been a problem with automatic releases to SM from SqueakSource itself: The paths and so the mcz file which sm tried to unzip was just an 404 error message... > Is SqueakSource its own WebDAV server or do I need my own? Is there > documentation I should read before I bother you on this list? SqueakSource implements HTTP GET and PUT itself - you don't need anything in front. There is no documentation so far but we've planned to write some short instructions and put it on SqueakSource. So, just ask on this list or send a mail to Lukas or me if you have questions. Cheers, Adrian _____________________ Adrian Lienhard www.adrian-lienhard.ch www.netstyle.ch

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3.7beta planned for this Friday, March 5
by Doug Way 04 Mar '04

04 Mar '04

Just a reminder that we are shooting for moving 3.7 from alpha to beta this Friday, March 5th. So, if you have any enhancements that you'd really like to get in 3.7, submit them now! Or if they've already been submitted, try to encourage others to review them, or bring them up here. Looking at our to-do list for 3.7... http://minnow.cc.gatech.edu/squeak/3491 Remaining to-do: - Michael Rueger is working on getting the Squeakland/Etoys changes merged for 3.7. Hopefully this will be ready by Friday or thereabouts. - SmallLand: Babel and the new look are already in... not sure what's left if anything. Diego? Any remaining items should be submitted as [ENH]s. - I will changeset-ize the BitstreamVeraFonts sometime this week and submit them as an [ENH]. - RegExp package... Yoshiki asked if this could wait until after his i18n work in early 3.8alpha, so that would make me lean towards postponing until then. - ANSI. Ken Causey submitted the remaining non-Chronology changes on Feb. 20... anyone interested in this should look at/review his submission. - Adam's package cleanup... SoundSystem is done, maybe a few more could get in before beta. Can be done during beta: - Full package cleanup, can do this during beta. One item that was mentioned awhile ago was adding the Guides as co-maintainers on all of the Squeak-Official Full/Basic packages. This sounds like a good idea to me. Actually, it might make sense to have a shared SM2 account for the Guides, so that as Guides rotate in and out we don't have to keep updating the packages. Also it would clutter up the co-maintainers list less. We should really try to add other co-maintainers on some of these packages anyway, e.g. add Lex Spoon as a co-maintainer for Celeste, etc. - Accufonts -- need to look at/incorporate John McIntosh's fixes to the Accuny font, this can be done during beta too since they are "fixes" and shouldn't destabilize anything. That's all I can think of for now... - Doug

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SystemNavigation subclasses
by Romain Robbes 04 Mar '04

04 Mar '04

Hi folks, What would all of you think of a subclass of SystemNavigation restricted to one or several instances of PackageInfo ? This way, one could use all the standard methods for browsing the system as well as only some of it's part. So for example if the system browser was only using an instance of SystemNavigation to show it's content, it would be much easier to create an instance of it viewing a part of the system only. I had a small look at SystemNavigation's implementation, and it seems that a few methods only needs to be overriden (such as allBehaviorsDo: aBlock and a few more). What would you think of that ? Cheers, Romain

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[BUG][TEST] ClassDescription>>compile:classified:
by Romain Robbes 04 Mar '04

04 Mar '04

Is it a bug or a feature ? When you use the #compile:classified: method to compile code, you do not get prompted if temporary variable declarations are missing ! ie : Object compile: 'foo bar := 1. ^ bar negated' classified: 'foobar' Object new foo "yields -1" will work even if bar is declared nowhere else, which is the case in Object... This could be considered a feature, as the code actually works without problems ... (except that in most cases the missing variable declaration is trapped somewhere else, so we have to fix this, or break all the other places ;-) ). Unfortunately it's quite hard to come up with a test, as rightful compile errors seems to get notified as a side-effect of the call to #compile:classified: (they open a window entitled "Syntax Error").

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