Hi Alain! Thanks for the mail (even if the historial part has always been pretty clear to me). We miss you! Be back soon!
Cheers, Alexandre -- _,.;:~^~:;._,.;:~^~:;._,.;:~^~:;._,.;:~^~:;._,.;: Alexandre Bergel http://www.bergel.eu ^~:;._,.;:~^~:;._,.;:~^~:;._,.;:~^~:;._,.;:~^~:;. > On May 11, 2017, at 12:36 PM, Alain Plantec via Pharo-dev > <pharo-...@lists.pharo.org> wrote: > > > From: Alain Plantec <alain.plan...@yahoo.com> > Subject: Re: [Pharo-users] [ann] bloc & cairo+morphic > Date: May 11, 2017 at 12:36:36 PM GMT-3 > To: Pharo Development List <pharo-...@lists.pharo.org> > Cc: Alain Plantec <alain.plan...@yahoo.com>, Moose-related development > <moose-...@list.inf.unibe.ch>, Any question about pharo is welcome > <pharo-users@lists.pharo.org> > > > Hello Doru, all, > > I’m really happy to see Bloc progresses. > Even I’m not active since more than one year, Bloc is still an important > project for me. > > but let me complete this short historical presentation a little bit. > > Bloc is a project that I initiated in 2013 in collaboration with RMOD > following experiments made around the ROME project. > The idea was to completely revisit the 2D framework of Pharo to address > Morphic limits. > Following an invitation of the Software Composition Group (thanks to Oscar > Nierstrasz and to Doru here), > I presented the first version of Bloc at Bern (March, 2015), then Doru and > Aliaksel joined the project. > One year ago, during his PhD at Brest, Glenn Cavarle produced a new version > of the Bloc infrastructure that is now the > one used together with the layouting system that was implemented by Aliaksel. > > Please, do not use the humane assessment web site but the github project one > instead. > > I will restart working on Bloc/Brick soon in the context of a project that we > recently signed with the Thales company. > > Thanks, > Cheers > > Alain > > >> On 8 mai 2017, at 23:00, Tudor Girba <tu...@tudorgirba.com> wrote: >> >> Hi, >> >> We are happy to announce that based on the work of Glenn, Alex extended Bloc >> (Sparta) to work directly in the Morphic world using Cairo as a backend. >> >> Cairo is less powerful than Moz2D (see the screenshot below for an example), >> but the implementation addresses a concern that the community raised >> regarding a perceived increased liability due to the dependency to Moz2D. >> Essentially this means that Bloc can be treated as another graphical library >> that can coexist with Morphic without requiring any external VM plugin. >> >> <bloc-two-backends-morphic-host-figures.png> >> >> I would also like to point out that adding a new backend and host was >> possible because of the many iterations (including throwing away whole >> implementations) that Alex and Glenn went through. I think they did an >> amazing job. >> >> You can find a bit more details about Bloc here: >> http://www.humane-assessment.com/blog/bloc-flexible-backends-hosts/ >> >> Another issue raised regarding Bloc was that of the engineering effort >> required to make it a reality. That is why I would also like to announce >> that Alex joined feenk.com where he is primarily working on the graphical >> stack for Pharo. >> >> Cheers, >> Doru >> >> >> -- >> www.tudorgirba.com >> www.feenk.com >> >> "To lead is not to demand things, it is to make them happen." >> >> >> >> > > > >
