Squeak-dev November 2008

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Box-Admins Team Report for October, 2008
by Ken Causey 05 Nov '08

05 Nov '08

The box-admins team is reponsible for seeing that the community shared server is maintained and setting up any new features to be hosted on that server. For October, 2008: If you remember in my last report I said something about September being a 'tumultuous month'. Well little did I know. The server continued to be problematic as we petitioned Hetzner to investigate. Finally they took a look and the immediate result was catastrophic and the server was down for about 4 days. I've recounted the details elsewhere http://lists.squeakfoundation.org/pipermail/squeak-dev/2008-October/132082.… and won't go into it again here. Well Hetzner did finally come to our rescue (along with the invaluable assistance of Marcus Denker, Cees de Groot, and Göran Krampe) and I can now report that the server has been up and running nicely since October 23rd. Don't uncross your fingers yet, but perhaps we can all breathe easier. I want to thank the community for the monetary support needed to fund the box and remind you that the bills continue to appear and that you can currently contribute to the hosting bills by going to http://www.squeak.org/Foundation/SupportSqueak/ and purchasing a Squeak badge. Note that a donation here may be used for other Squeak Foundation services including but not limited to development, development infrastructure, and promotion of Squeak. The services being hosted have continued to grow and include (but are not limited to): http://www.squeak.org/ SqueakMap - http://map.squeak.org/ http://ftp.squeak.org/ http://lists.squeakfoundation.org/ http://discuss.squeakfoundation.org/ http://source.squeakfoundation.org/ http://map.squeak.org/ https://svn.squeak.org/ http://update.squeakfoundation.org/ http://wiki.squeak.org/ http://bugs.squeak.org/ and DNS services for squeak.org and squeakfoundation.org domain names. Ken

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List Windows shares from Squeak?
by Elod Kironský 05 Nov '08

05 Nov '08

Hi! I would like to list the window shares for a host in the network, from Squeak ofc ;) Is it possible? Is there any abstraction/package to work with shares/samba? Thanks in advance, Elod Elod Kironsky Software Developer AVG Technologies Email: elod.kironsky(a)avg.com www.avg.com www.avg.cz

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Gumstix and Squeak
by Brad Fuller 05 Nov '08

05 Nov '08

I think Dave Hylands has placed Squeak 3.6 on a gumstix (BTW, Dave, which motherboad?) Has anyone else experimented with squeak on the gumstix lately, maybe with the latest 3.10 and the latest VM? Dave: your notes online mentions using buildroot and not OE. Anyone run squeak on OE (gumstix or other platform)? If you've done work on the gumstix and squeak, or OE and squeak, what has been your experience? I have a 600MHz verdex board that I"m looking into porting squeak to, but I'd like to not reinvent the wheel, and would love to hear your trials, errors and successes. TIA! brad -- Brad Fuller

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How to tell which package version?
by Sophie (itsme213) 05 Nov '08

05 Nov '08

I'm trying to determine which version of Monticello I have. The Monticello Browser says "Monticello-edc.312". How to I translate this to a version, such as "1.5"? Or should I be looking somewhere else? Thanks - Sophie

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Re: [squeak-dev] new blog post plus closure bootstrap code
by David T. Lewis 05 Nov '08

05 Nov '08

On Tue, Jul 22, 2008 at 06:14:51PM -0700, Eliot Miranda wrote: > Hi All, > I've made a significant step today in making available the first cut of > my closure scheme. There is a new blog post on > www.mirandabanda.org/cogblogabout the closure bytecodes which at the > end includes a pointer to the > bootstrap @ www.mirandabanda.org/files/Cog/Closures0808/Bootstrap/. The > bootstrap has been tested on internal Qwaq images, and on Croquet 1.0 and > Squeak 3.9. I'd love to hear of other ports, e.g. to 3.10 and to Spoon. > I'm interested in bug reports (I haven't yet tested eToys) and code reviews > and tying up loose ends (for example I broke decompile with temp names and > haven't fixed it). I can confirm building a VM from the ClosureVMBootstrap.1.cs change set with SqueakSource VMMaker-dtl.104 (non-Croquet) on Squeak 3.8 on Linux. It works fine and I see no issues with backward compatibility for existing images. I am attaching the changes that were required to merge ClosureVMBootstrap with a non-Qwaq VMMaker. The changes were as follows: - Add missing ClassBlockClosure var to ObjectMemory - Merge class and instance var defs in Interpreter - Remove large integer stuff from #initializePrimitiveTable (is this for Croquet?) - Delete (now unused) primitiveObsoleteIndexedPrimitive The ClassBlockClosure definition in ObjectMemory was probably an accidental omission from the ClosureVMBootstrap change set, and the remainder of the changes are a straightforward merge for a different flavor of VMMaker. I have not yet progressed as far as getting the closure compiler loaded, but the closure-enabled VM seems to be trouble-free and fully backward compatible. Dave

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MIT License
by Mariano Martinez Peck 04 Nov '08

04 Nov '08

Hi everybody! We are tying to "put" MIT license in squeakDBX (a squeak project). I mean, we always says SqueakDBX was licensed under MIT license but we never do something about that. So, the main question is, what things do I have to do to license SqueakDBX with MIT license ? I saw some links in MC like Tool Builder project where they put in monticello website (in the project description part), the license agreement. But, do I need to do something else ? Do I need to put a file or class named COPYING or LICENSE ? Do I need to put the license agreement IN the code ? In addition, what is copyright holders ? suppose we are a group of people, not a company, what we have to put there? just our names ? I also see this link: http://wiki.squeak.org/squeak/5607 but I didn't undestand the pdf file. What I have to do with it ? A lot of thanks for the help. Mariano

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Local variable in plugin
by Ang Beepeng 04 Nov '08

04 Nov '08

How to initialize a local variable in plugin? Say I want to have smething like this in c. int myfunction (){ int* temp; for(int i=0; i< 4; i++){ temp[i] = i; } } I use self var: #temp type: 'int *temp'. for int* temp 1 to: 3 do:[:i| self m: temp r: i c:0 put: i]. for the loop. Thanks. -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/Local-variable-in-plugin-tp20296824p20296824.html Sent from the Squeak - Dev mailing list archive at Nabble.com.

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<sin asunto>
by Edgar J. De Cleene 03 Nov '08

03 Nov '08

Un regalito. Hoy subi ftp://www.squeak.org/various_images/TodaMafalda.1.RTS.image Ahi verán una version Squeak del libro , 375 paginas de las que adjunto una que muestra un genio homenajeando a otro genio. For Non Spanish speaking people, I sorry you could not enjoy the Quino and Fontanarrosa genious. It's not to late for your kids..., so here is my gift to they Edgar P/S This answer the question for what could be useful Squeak ?

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application packaging
by Mark Volkmann 03 Nov '08

03 Nov '08

I have previously asked for tips on how to package non-web apps for distribution to users. Several people suggested that I should follow the examples set by Plopp and Sophie. Unfortunately I haven't been able to locate a description of what they do. I asked on the Sophie mailing list, but got no response. Is there a summary of the approach they use on the web somewhere? --- Mark Volkmann

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Re[2]: [squeak-dev] application packaging
by Donald Major 03 Nov '08

03 Nov '08

Mark, if I understand what you're after, it sounds you should take a look at Stephan B. Wessels' "Squeak Development Example for Squeak 3.9" tutorial (URL below) http://squeak.preeminent.org/tut2007/html/ In particular, Section 6 details creating a stand alone, double-clickable application (or as close as Squeak can get, depending on OS) which won't expose the user to the Squeak development environment. The previous five sections describe developing the application used in section 6. I believe the mechanism also works in Squeak 3.10, but don't know from personal experience, nor do I know if there's any better way. Hope this helps.

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