Re: [Pharo-users] Resources Page

2020-01-29 Thread Vince Refiti
Hi Come to think of it, what has happened to Claus Gittinger’s Smalltalk/X (https://www.exept.de/smalltalk-x.html). My German is feeble so I cannot understand most of it. But googling it brought me to Smalltalk/X jv-branch (https://swing.fit.cvut.cz/projects/stx-jv). That looks both

Re: [Pharo-users] Resources Page

2020-01-29 Thread Erik Stel
I think SqueakJS would be a good addition for the Open Source resources: https://squeak.js.org (Javascript based VM for running both headful and headless images both in the browser or (headless) in nodejs). And maybe Caffeine should get a mention in that same area (it uses SqueakJS):

Re: [Pharo-users] Resources Page

2020-01-29 Thread tbrunz
horrido wrote >> Another thing to consider is a section (or page) for Smalltalk demos >> (postings that demonstrate Smalltalk strengths and attractive aspects); >> you >> already have one, "Seven minutes of Pharo for Rubyists". There are many >> more... > > Perhaps you can provide a few more

Re: [Pharo-users] Resources Page

2020-01-29 Thread merkste
Thanks for curating a list of useful resources. Personally, I like the book "The Design Patterns Smalltalk Companion" very much. Maybe it fits your list too. Best, Steffen Richard Kenneth Eng schrieb am Tue Jan 28 2020 23:24:16 GMT+0100 (Mitteleuropäische Normalzeit): I've added a

Re: [Pharo-users] Resources Page

2020-01-28 Thread Vince Refiti
Hi Richard For Dolphin Smalltalk there are youtube videos by Andy Bower (co-creator of Dolphin) showing Dolphin Successfully running in MacOS under Wineskin (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S9HhHFJn5gg). It should almost certainly run under Wine as well. So maybe you mighlt like to add that

Re: [Pharo-users] Resources Page

2020-01-28 Thread Mariano Martinez Peck
On Tue, Jan 28, 2020 at 11:35 PM Benoit St-Jean via Pharo-users < pharo-users@lists.pharo.org> wrote: > I don't know if it's still the case but "trial version" for VAST, in the > past, only meant that you could use the product forever but you didn't > have the possibility to create an executable

Re: [Pharo-users] Resources Page

2020-01-28 Thread Mariano Martinez Peck
On Tue, Jan 28, 2020 at 10:26 PM Richard Sargent < richard.sarg...@gemtalksystems.com> wrote: > Thanks. > > On Tue, Jan 28, 2020, 17:21 horrido wrote: > >> Done. I didn't realize there was a free license for GemStone/S. >> >> Too bad VA Smalltalk doesn't offer a free license. >> > > I believe

Re: [Pharo-users] Resources Page

2020-01-28 Thread horrido
If someone can confirm that this is still true, I'll update the Resources Page. Pharo Smalltalk Users mailing list wrote > I don't know if it's still the case but "trial version" for VAST, in the > past, only meant that you could use the product forever but you didn't > have the possibility

Re: [Pharo-users] Resources Page

2020-01-28 Thread Benoit St-Jean via Pharo-users
--- Begin Message --- I don't know if it's still the case but "trial version" for VAST, in the past, only meant that you could use the product forever but you didn't have the possibility to create an executable iirc. On 2020-01-28 20:37, horrido wrote: I never consider a trial version as a

Re: [Pharo-users] Resources Page

2020-01-28 Thread horrido
I never consider a trial version as a free product. As far as I'm considered, it's only free (or Community Edition) if I can use it indefinitely. Dale Henrichs-3 wrote > I think the free license is contingent upon having contributed to an > open source project. Also there appears to be free

Re: [Pharo-users] Resources Page

2020-01-28 Thread Dale Henrichs
I think the free license is contingent upon having contributed to an open source project. Also there appears to be free trial version[1]. Dale [1] https://www.instantiations.com/products/vasmalltalk/download.html On 1/28/20 5:25 PM, Richard Sargent wrote: Thanks. On Tue, Jan 28, 2020, 17:21

Re: [Pharo-users] Resources Page

2020-01-28 Thread Richard Sargent
Thanks. On Tue, Jan 28, 2020, 17:21 horrido wrote: > Done. I didn't realize there was a free license for GemStone/S. > > Too bad VA Smalltalk doesn't offer a free license. > I believe they do. > > > Richard Sargent (again) wrote > > Thank you, Richard. > > > > Would you be kind enough to

Re: [Pharo-users] Resources Page

2020-01-28 Thread horrido
Done. I didn't realize there was a free license for GemStone/S. Too bad VA Smalltalk doesn't offer a free license. Richard Sargent (again) wrote > Thank you, Richard. > > Would you be kind enough to annotate the GemStone link to point out that > we have a free license that permits commercial

Re: [Pharo-users] Resources Page

2020-01-28 Thread horrido
tbrunz wrote > Very good, Richard -- this is helpful, and is a great page to refer people > to. > > The image(?) under "Miscellaneous" is broken (at least in my browser; the > other links all work.) Fixed. Thanks. > You might consider adding a link to "A Terse Guide to Pharo", >

Re: [Pharo-users] Resources Page

2020-01-28 Thread Richard Sargent
Thank you, Richard. Would you be kind enough to annotate the GemStone link to point out that we have a free license that permits commercial use, not only personal use. Thanks again for all your hard work! On January 28, 2020 2:24:16 PM PST, Richard Kenneth Eng wrote: >I've added a Resources

Re: [Pharo-users] Resources Page

2020-01-28 Thread tbrunz
Very good, Richard -- this is helpful, and is a great page to refer people to. The image(?) under "Miscellaneous" is broken (at least in my browser; the other links all work.) You might consider adding a link to "A Terse Guide to Pharo",

[Pharo-users] Resources Page

2020-01-28 Thread Richard Kenneth Eng
I've added a Resources page to my new blog: https://smalltalk.tech.blog/resources/. It is very much a *curated *list. I felt this was needed because when I visit other Smalltalk resources pages, I get overwhelmed by the number of links and options. It is possible to have *too many* choices.