I don't know how familiar you are with irc channels , but that is pretty much standard behaviour. So no its definitely not a reason to close channel. I rather help people who keep trying to learn pharo than people who give up too easily to be frank with you. Quantity is not Quality ;)
On Sat, Jun 21, 2014 at 6:41 PM, Max Leske <[email protected]> wrote: > > On 21.06.2014, at 17:36, kilon alios <[email protected]> wrote: > > First off: > <rant>why do we have an IRC channel if nobody seems to be > listening??</rant> > > too small community for an irc channel. My experience with irc is that > 90-99% of people logged in at least are idle. For its size #pharo is quite > active actually. > > > Probably true. We should consider closing it. We’ve had people there > asking questions before. Some of them didn’t get an answer at all (bad > image for us) or were pointed to the mailing list which they probably would > have tried anyway if the channel hadn’t existed... > > > sorry can't help you with your question :( > > > Thanks anyway :) > > > > On Sat, Jun 21, 2014 at 6:24 PM, Max Leske <[email protected]> wrote: > >> First off: >> <rant>why do we have an IRC channel if nobody seems to be >> listening??</rant> >> >> Sorry about that. Here’s my original question as posted on IRC: >> >> Hi guys. >> I have a couple of SystemWindow instances sitting around in my image >> which can’t be garbage collected. They all once showed a debugger but that >> debugger seems to be only referenced by the window. >> I’m kind of running in circles. Does anyone have an idea how to find the >> root pointers which prevent garbage collection of an object? Using >> PointerFinder manually isn’t helping much (I’m in a Pharo 1.1.1 image). >> >> Cheers, >> Max >> > > >
