Doru can you change the humane assessment blog post?
On Thu, May 11, 2017 at 8:07 PM, Tudor Girba <tu...@tudorgirba.com> wrote: > 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." > > > > > >
