Re: [Pharo-project] Pharo for Professional Development

2010-01-11 Thread Stéphane Ducasse
But gwenael did a complete GTK binding for Squeak/pharo and he moved everything to GNU. Too bad. So we/you could gain from that. Stef On Jan 11, 2010, at 8:18 AM, Stéphane Ducasse wrote: > Now for pharo people could ressurect the GTK port done by gwenael. > Or pay for that. > > Stef > > On Jan

Re: [Pharo-project] Pharo for Professional Development

2010-01-11 Thread csrabak
Given we're at the start of the year, I can still have wishes as well, then let's add Gayvert's wxWidgets as well http://www.wxsqueak.org/ []s -- Cesar Rabak Em 11/01/2010 05:18, Stéphane Ducasse < stephane.duca...@inria.fr > escreveu: Now for pharo people could ressurect the GTK port done

Re: [Pharo-project] Pharo for Professional Development

2010-01-10 Thread Stéphane Ducasse
Now for pharo people could ressurect the GTK port done by gwenael. Or pay for that. Stef On Jan 11, 2010, at 2:40 AM, Stephen Taylor wrote: > Schwab,Wilhelm K wrote: >> Dolphin is better than that > > I've put my money where my mouth is with Dolphin - I think I've bought > every product they'v

Re: [Pharo-project] Pharo for Professional Development

2010-01-10 Thread Benoit St-Jean
oject@lists.gforge.inria.fr Sent: Sun, January 10, 2010 8:40:15 PM Subject: Re: [Pharo-project] Pharo for Professional Development Schwab,Wilhelm K wrote: > Dolphin is better than that I've put my money where my mouth is with Dolphin - I think I've bought every product they've ever

Re: [Pharo-project] Pharo for Professional Development

2010-01-10 Thread Schwab,Wilhelm K
-boun...@lists.gforge.inria.fr [mailto:pharo-project-boun...@lists.gforge.inria.fr] On Behalf Of Stephen Taylor Sent: Sunday, January 10, 2010 9:44 PM To: Pharo-project@lists.gforge.inria.fr Subject: Re: [Pharo-project] Pharo for Professional Development Schwab,Wilhelm K wrote: > Steve, > > I&#

Re: [Pharo-project] Pharo for Professional Development

2010-01-10 Thread Stephen Taylor
Schwab,Wilhelm K wrote: > Steve, > > I'm confused: how is a D4 guy an idea space fan??? The key word is laziness - not the good sort of laziness that programmers are supposed to have, along with hubris, etc, but the bad sort you're supposed to shake yourself out of. I've bought the various n

Re: [Pharo-project] Pharo for Professional Development

2010-01-10 Thread Schwab,Wilhelm K
fr Subject: Re: [Pharo-project] Pharo for Professional Development Schwab,Wilhelm K wrote: > Dolphin is better than that I've put my money where my mouth is with Dolphin - I think I've bought every product they've ever released, just to give them a hand - despite the fact th

Re: [Pharo-project] Pharo for Professional Development

2010-01-10 Thread Stephen Taylor
Schwab,Wilhelm K wrote: > Dolphin is better than that I've put my money where my mouth is with Dolphin - I think I've bought every product they've ever released, just to give them a hand - despite the fact that I've still got a Dolphin version4 image on the go! > The feature you are describing

Re: [Pharo-project] Pharo for Professional Development

2010-01-10 Thread Schwab,Wilhelm K
other times. Bill -Original Message- From: pharo-project-boun...@lists.gforge.inria.fr [mailto:pharo-project-boun...@lists.gforge.inria.fr] On Behalf Of Stephen Taylor Sent: Sunday, January 10, 2010 6:19 PM To: Pharo-project@lists.gforge.inria.fr Subject: Re: [Pharo-project] Phar

Re: [Pharo-project] Pharo for Professional Development

2010-01-10 Thread Stephen Taylor
Michael Rueger wrote: > Henrik Johansen wrote: > >> This is just another reason why multiple native windows would be nice, >> though, leaves the problem for someone else :) > > Interestingly enough a lot of the (complex) multiple native window > applications have (gone back to) all in one windo

Re: [Pharo-project] Pharo for Professional Development

2009-12-19 Thread Pavel Krivanek
On Fri, Dec 18, 2009 at 1:39 PM, George Herolyants wrote: > 2009/12/18 Michael Rueger : >> Henrik Johansen wrote: >> >> Interestingly enough a lot of the (complex) multiple native window >> applications have (gone back to) all in one window UIs (Eclipse, all of >> the Adobe products, ...). > > Yea

Re: [Pharo-project] Pharo for Professional Development

2009-12-18 Thread Simon Denier
On 18 déc. 2009, at 12:29, Henrik Johansen wrote: > > On Dec 18, 2009, at 12:03 09PM, Simon Denier wrote: >> >> >> >> About the taskbar: I'm more and more convinced that the taskbar does not >> work well for me, in particular does not scale. I would prefer something >> like the Mac Os dock.

Re: [Pharo-project] Pharo for Professional Development

2009-12-18 Thread Simon Denier
On 18 déc. 2009, at 13:23, Bart Gauquie wrote: > > The dev build really misses a process like the core build has with > integrators. But we can not mimic this process in dev since it integrates > external packages, whose developers are sometimes not concerned with Pharo. I > volunteer for tha

Re: [Pharo-project] Pharo for Professional Development

2009-12-18 Thread Schwab,Wilhelm K
nria.fr Subject: Re: [Pharo-project] Pharo for Professional Development On Fri, 18 Dec 2009, George Herolyants wrote: > 2009/12/18 Michael Rueger : >> Henrik Johansen wrote: >> >> Interestingly enough a lot of the (complex) multiple native window >> applications

Re: [Pharo-project] Pharo for Professional Development

2009-12-18 Thread George Herolyants
2009/12/18 Levente Uzonyi : > Sure, start the vm with: -vm display=none. Then use RFB to connect to the > image, we use several such images. Yes. You're right. I completely forgot about the possibility to use RFB. Yeah, in this case all the native dialogs won't fit at all. And multiple windows in

Re: [Pharo-project] Pharo for Professional Development

2009-12-18 Thread Michael Rueger
Bart Gauquie wrote: > > Allow me to explain why I have such strong beliefs about this. On my > firm, we are using some techniques to enable that. On one project they > are releasing new functionality every two weeks. How they do that is as > following. These 2 weeks releases are incremental ch

Re: [Pharo-project] Pharo for Professional Development

2009-12-18 Thread Levente Uzonyi
On Fri, 18 Dec 2009, George Herolyants wrote: > 2009/12/18 Levente Uzonyi : >> On Fri, 18 Dec 2009, George Herolyants wrote: >>> And native basic dialogs may be helpful too, to not reinvent the wheel >>> (aka FileBrowser :). >> >> At first sight this idea seems to be cool, but it's not. FileBrowse

Re: [Pharo-project] Pharo for Professional Development

2009-12-18 Thread Marcus Denker
On Dec 18, 2009, at 2:39 PM, Bart Gauquie wrote: > > Do you have negative experiences with writing tests? No. > I've been using it all my professional career; and I firmly believe it is the > only way to develop software, a good test set really helps to move forward at > a sustainable pace. C

Re: [Pharo-project] Pharo for Professional Development

2009-12-18 Thread Bart Gauquie
Marcus, We have the rule to do something, even if what we do it is not perfect. > I never suggested this. Only trying to improve the way we are working, so that we can work more efficiently. > > The idea to request a test for everything does not work. And in addition, > even tests do no guarant

Re: [Pharo-project] Pharo for Professional Development

2009-12-18 Thread George Herolyants
2009/12/18 Levente Uzonyi : > On Fri, 18 Dec 2009, George Herolyants wrote: >> And native basic dialogs may be helpful too, to not reinvent the wheel >> (aka FileBrowser :). > > At first sight this idea seems to be cool, but it's not. FileBrowser is > not a "reinvented wheel", it's really useful in

Re: [Pharo-project] Pharo for Professional Development

2009-12-18 Thread Levente Uzonyi
On Fri, 18 Dec 2009, George Herolyants wrote: > 2009/12/18 Michael Rueger : >> Henrik Johansen wrote: >> >> Interestingly enough a lot of the (complex) multiple native window >> applications have (gone back to) all in one window UIs (Eclipse, all of >> the Adobe products, ...). > > Yeah! That's tr

Re: [Pharo-project] Pharo for Professional Development

2009-12-18 Thread Marcus Denker
On Dec 18, 2009, at 1:23 PM, Bart Gauquie wrote: > > Concerning the parts that are lacking tests. We have a rule to test > everything. We have the rule to do something, even if what we do it is not perfect. The idea to request a test for everything does not work. And in addition, even tests

Re: [Pharo-project] Pharo for Professional Development

2009-12-18 Thread Marcus Denker
On Dec 18, 2009, at 1:10 PM, Marcus Denker wrote: >> >> I think that in Pharo most of the tests are unit tests. Please correct if >> I'm wrong, don't know it well enough yet. Each package is perfectly unit >> tested. > > No, no package is perfectly unit-tested. Not even close. For some things

Re: [Pharo-project] Pharo for Professional Development

2009-12-18 Thread George Herolyants
2009/12/18 Michael Rueger : > Henrik Johansen wrote: > > Interestingly enough a lot of the (complex) multiple native window > applications have (gone back to) all in one window UIs (Eclipse, all of > the Adobe products, ...). Yeah! That's true. And their look&feel may differ from the underlying os

Re: [Pharo-project] Pharo for Professional Development

2009-12-18 Thread Bart Gauquie
> > > The dev build really misses a process like the core build has with > integrators. But we can not mimic this process in dev since it integrates > external packages, whose developers are sometimes not concerned with Pharo. > I volunteer for that. > > That is true. However, since Pharo chooses e

Re: [Pharo-project] Pharo for Professional Development

2009-12-18 Thread Simon Denier
On 18 déc. 2009, at 11:36, Bart Gauquie wrote: > > > I think we should rename 1.1. It's not #alpha, it's #unstable. > >Marcus > ___ > > > I think thats a bad idea. Pharo should also set a standard on stability. > It's even in the mission

Re: [Pharo-project] Pharo for Professional Development

2009-12-18 Thread Marcus Denker
On Dec 18, 2009, at 1:05 PM, Bart Gauquie wrote: > Hi Marcus, > > There is no release yet! > > How often are you planning to do a release? I suppose the next release is > the reached milestones for 1.1? > Yes, this will be ready in a couple of months. > > > I think that in Pharo most of

Re: [Pharo-project] Pharo for Professional Development

2009-12-18 Thread Bart Gauquie
Hi Marcus, There is no release yet! > How often are you planning to do a release? I suppose the next release is the reached milestones for 1.1? > > > everything that worked before should still work perfectly. The new stuff > being added are first buggy; seems normal to me. But if the new stuff

Re: [Pharo-project] Pharo for Professional Development

2009-12-18 Thread Michael Rueger
Henrik Johansen wrote: > This is just another reason why multiple native windows would be nice, > though, leaves the problem for someone else :) Interestingly enough a lot of the (complex) multiple native window applications have (gone back to) all in one window UIs (Eclipse, all of the Adobe

Re: [Pharo-project] Pharo for Professional Development

2009-12-18 Thread Henrik Johansen
On Dec 18, 2009, at 12:03 09PM, Simon Denier wrote: > > > > About the taskbar: I'm more and more convinced that the taskbar does not work > well for me, in particular does not scale. I would prefer something like the > Mac Os dock. On the other hand, Algernon is a great tool to navigate quick

Re: [Pharo-project] Pharo for Professional Development

2009-12-18 Thread Simon Denier
Yep, IDE tools in Pharo are at least a few years behind what you can find in other IDEs, at least in terms of usability. This is a known problem :) and there already has been a stream of propositions, enhancements, and talks about this (I myself did a presentation at ESUG 2009 about what I want

Re: [Pharo-project] Pharo for Professional Development

2009-12-18 Thread Marcus Denker
On Dec 18, 2009, at 11:21 AM, Bart Gauquie wrote: > Hi, > > The point I'm trying to make is that even on an alpha release, There is no release yet! > everything that worked before should still work perfectly. The new stuff > being added are first buggy; seems normal to me. But if the new stu

Re: [Pharo-project] Pharo for Professional Development

2009-12-18 Thread Marcus Denker
On Dec 18, 2009, at 11:36 AM, Bart Gauquie wrote: > > > I think we should rename 1.1. It's not #alpha, it's #unstable. > >Marcus > ___ > > > I think thats a bad idea. Pharo should also set a standard on stability. > It's even in the miss

Re: [Pharo-project] Pharo for Professional Development

2009-12-18 Thread Bart Gauquie
Thanks for pointing out, did not know that. Kind Regards, Bart On Fri, Dec 18, 2009 at 11:30 AM, Adrian Lienhard wrote: > > On Dec 18, 2009, at 10:34 , Bart Gauquie wrote: > > > Just now, I've been looking into > > http://code.google.com/p/pharo/issues/detail?id=1570 I've reported > > last > >

Re: [Pharo-project] Pharo for Professional Development

2009-12-18 Thread Bart Gauquie
I think we should rename 1.1. It's not #alpha, it's #unstable. > >Marcus > ___ > > I think thats a bad idea. Pharo should also set a standard on stability. It's even in the mission statement: 'By providing a stable and small core system, excelle

Re: [Pharo-project] Pharo for Professional Development

2009-12-18 Thread Adrian Lienhard
On Dec 18, 2009, at 10:34 , Bart Gauquie wrote: > Just now, I've been looking into > http://code.google.com/p/pharo/issues/detail?id=1570 I've reported > last > week. Thanks for reporting. Please always send a short mail to the list when you create an issue. See also http://www.pharo-projec

Re: [Pharo-project] Pharo for Professional Development

2009-12-18 Thread Bart Gauquie
Hi, The point I'm trying to make is that even on an alpha release, everything that worked before should still work perfectly. The new stuff being added are first buggy; seems normal to me. But if the new stuff is breaking old, working stuff, and we only notice it after a month; then it will take u

Re: [Pharo-project] Pharo for Professional Development

2009-12-18 Thread Cédrick Béler
> > > I think we should rename 1.1. It's not #alpha, it's #unstable. > > good idea. Just as a feedback. I tried to use Pharo to implement some algorithms in course I'm giving. This was instructive ... but I think I won't do it next year (except if I implement a pseudo-language a la etoy tile to do

Re: [Pharo-project] Pharo for Professional Development

2009-12-18 Thread Marcus Denker
On Dec 18, 2009, at 10:34 AM, Bart Gauquie wrote: > Hi Marcus, > > I can understand your reasoning. The point I was trying to make is that even > for the 1.1 alpha release everything should be stable that was stable before. > I really appreciate the effort everybody does in it; the new stuff b

Re: [Pharo-project] Pharo for Professional Development

2009-12-18 Thread Michael Rueger
Bart Gauquie wrote: > Hi Marcus, > > I can understand your reasoning. The point I was trying to make is that > even for the 1.1 alpha release everything should be stable that was > stable before. I really appreciate the effort everybody does in it; the > new stuff being added and all; but break

Re: [Pharo-project] Pharo for Professional Development

2009-12-18 Thread Bart Gauquie
Hi Marcus, I can understand your reasoning. The point I was trying to make is that even for the 1.1 alpha release everything should be stable that was stable before. I really appreciate the effort everybody does in it; the new stuff being added and all; but breaking things that worked before is no

Re: [Pharo-project] Pharo for Professional Development

2009-12-18 Thread Adrian Lienhard
Hi Bart, Thanks for the feedback. You make some good points. If you want to help make Pharo better, please report bugs! Stability is important for us. That is why we have a 1.0 that is stabilizing, and a 1.1 alpha branch at the moment. We don't just commit everything into one trunk... After

Re: [Pharo-project] Pharo for Professional Development

2009-12-18 Thread Marcus Denker
On Dec 18, 2009, at 9:41 AM, Bart Gauquie wrote: > Dear all, > > I've been using Squeak before, now I'm using Pharo. Its still 'hobby' usage. > However, on my firm, we have a lot of working groups in which we investigate > new technologies. We mainly use Java / .Net. > I've initiated a workin

[Pharo-project] Pharo for Professional Development

2009-12-18 Thread Bart Gauquie
Dear all, I've been using Squeak before, now I'm using Pharo. Its still 'hobby' usage. However, on my firm, we have a lot of working groups in which we investigate new technologies. We mainly use Java / .Net. I've initiated a working group around Smalltalk/Seaside. And chose Pharo as a smalltalk p