Thanks Lorenzo, but I'm not clear what the offer is... * making VisualSmalltalk compatible with ANSI ? * making Pharo compatible with VisualSmalltalk ? cheers -ben
On Fri, Sep 18, 2015 at 10:09 PM, Lorenzo Schiavina <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi Ben, > > I am available if you want to include VisualSmalltalk into ANSICompatibility > package. > I have both full documentation and lot of applications. > > Lorenzo > > -----Messaggio originale----- > Da: Pharo-dev [mailto:[email protected]] Per conto di Ben > Coman > Inviato: venerdì 18 settembre 2015 15:54 > A: Pharo Development List > Oggetto: Re: [Pharo-dev] ANSICompatibility package > > Jan, Thanks for your contribution. Actually I hadn't uploaded anything yet > since I was waiting on more votes on renaming, but to push ahead I settled on > SmalltalkCompatibility [1], since I think the repo can serve a wider purpose > than just ANSI. > > I added you to the PharoExtras team. Hopefully that works. > > [1] http://smalltalkhub.com/#!/~PharoExtras/SmalltalkCompatibility > > cheers -ben > > On Fri, Sep 18, 2015 at 7:10 PM, Jan Vrany <[email protected]> wrote: >> >>> > I would rename it to SmalltalkCompatibility to ANSICompatibility >>> > because "Compatibility" is a too general term and could mean >>> > backward compatibility of Pharo versions or compatibility to other >>> > languages as well. >>> >>> That was me :) I was thinking more broadly that over time the >>> "repository" might hold different packages Compatibility-ANSI, >>> Compatibility-VW, Compatibility-Dolphin. But maybe that is >>> overreaching and its better to be more focussed. Let me know what you >>> think on this and restate what you think the repository name should >>> be. >> >> Ben, could you please give me a commit access? I intend to move >> Compatibility-SmalltalkX and Compatibility-ANSI (which I created and >> "maintain" for my own need). Maybe some others may find them useful or >> maybe even contribute. >> >> Cheers, Jan >> >>> >>> > Also see http://wiki.squeak.org/squeak/2384 and >>> > http://map.squeak.org/package/d7011055-4446-4b8e-b6da-e7e32d3389ec >>> > which could be a start. >>> >>> I saw those, but they interact with existing classes, so I thought it >>> easier to kickstart by loading in the tests first, which are all new >>> classes. I only created the repository since the tests were *hard* >>> to find eventually at >>> http://www.spacmunke.org/svn/jst/trunk/src/test/ansi/ansi-compatibili >>> ty/ >>> So I thought it would be good make them more accessible as a >>> Monticello Package. >>> >>> cheers -ben >>> >>> P.S. I don't quite follow "to SmalltalkCompatibility to >>> ANSICompatibility" >>> do you mean "to SmalltalkCompatibility or ANSICompatibility" ? >>> >>> > >>> > > Gesendet: Dienstag, 08. September 2015 um 22:53 Uhr >>> > > Von: stepharo <[email protected]> >>> > > An: "Pharo Development List" <[email protected]> >>> > > Betreff: Re: [Pharo-dev] ANSICompatibility package >>> > > >>> > > We should have a SmalltalkCompatibility (not Ansi per se) package >>> > > were we can add some methods to help migration. >>> > > >>> > > Stef >>> > > >>> > > >>> > > Le 8/9/15 06:04, Ben Coman a écrit : >>> > > > On Tue, Sep 8, 2015 at 9:21 AM, Jan Vrany < >>> > > > [email protected]> wrote: >>> > > > > Hi, >>> > > > > >>> > > > > is there actually such a thing like ANSICompatibility >>> > > > > package? >>> > > > > (it has been mentioned here lately, but I cannot find it) >>> > > > > >>> > > > > Thanks, Jan >>> > > > > >>> > > > I made it up for the purpose of discussion to see what interest >>> > > > it generated. >>> > > > Should we start one ? >>> > > > cheers -ben >>> > > > >>> > > > >>> > > >>> > > >>> > > >>> > >>> >>> >> > >
