[squeak-dev] Re: Ongoing PunchCard releases

David T. Lewis lewis at mail.msen.com
Fri May 16 18:26:31 UTC 2014


On Fri, May 16, 2014 at 11:17:23AM -0700, Chris Cunningham wrote:
> Punched Card!  Neat!

FYI, this is Bob Arnings work, not mine.

> 
> So, I downloaded this (not realizing what it was before), and it really is
> kinda neat.  I tried putting some COBOL code into one of them to see how it
> would have looked oh so long ago:
> [image: Inline image 1]
> Pretty nice.  Except for the font - what font do you use, David, to make
> the text at the top of the card be readable?
> Also, if your background is close to the color of the cards - hard to see
> the punches.  But that's fairly accurate...

I have not paid much attention to the font. I think that if I were to work
on any improvements, I would put a high priority on implementing the hanging
chad feature ;-)

Dave

> 
> 
> -cbc
> 
> 
> On Fri, May 16, 2014 at 11:09 AM, Chris Muller <asqueaker at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> > LOL, cool, no problem the instructions should try to be more clear.
> >
> > On Fri, May 16, 2014 at 12:10 PM, David T. Lewis <lewis at mail.msen.com>
> > wrote:
> > > On Fri, May 16, 2014 at 10:21:25AM -0500, Chris Muller wrote:
> > >>
> > >> > What I specifically do not want to do is declare a new release of
> > >> > PunchedCards for Squeak 4.5. The reason that I do not want to do this
> > >> > is that there has been no change to PunchedCards, and if I were to
> > >> > tell people that a "new release" was available, this would imply that
> > >> > something has changed in PunchedCards to support Squeak 4.5 when in
> > >> > fact nothing of the sort has happened.
> > >>
> > >> Yes, of course.  You don't want to have to declare a new release, you
> > >> shouldn't have to, and you don't have to.  That's the way it already
> > >> is!  The wiki page "How to designate existing SqueakMap packages for a
> > >> new version of Squeak" (http://wiki.squeak.org/squeak/6180) says this
> > >> in step 6.
> > >
> > > I think what we have here is a case of good old fashioned user error.
> > I'll
> > > read the instructions more carefully next time we do a Squeak release!
> > >
> > > Thanks,
> > > Dave
> > >
> > >
> >
> >



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