Hi, Indeed, this is wonderful news that you will rejoin your baby project :).
Cheers, Doru > On May 11, 2017, at 6:40 PM, Alexandre Bergel <alexandre.ber...@me.com> wrote: > > 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." >>> >>> >>> >>> >> >> >> >> > > _______________________________________________ > Moose-dev mailing list > moose-...@list.inf.unibe.ch > https://www.list.inf.unibe.ch/listinfo/moose-dev -- www.tudorgirba.com www.feenk.com "Yesterday is a fact. Tomorrow is a possibility. Today is a challenge."
