Hi Christian --

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.

Best,
Marcel
Am 17.05.2022 19:27:33 schrieb Christian Haider <mail at christianhaider.de>:
Hi Squeakers,
 
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].
 
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.
 
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.
 
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?
 
Happy hacking,
                Christian
 
[1] https://wiki.pdftalk.de/doku.php?id=pdftalknonnamespacefileout [https://wiki.pdftalk.de/doku.php?id=pdftalknonnamespacefileout]
[2] 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]
 
P.S. I hope that I am writing to the right list – apologies, if this is spam for you
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