Re: [Pharo-users] Help in thinking about how to save a "program"

[Benoit St-Jean via Pharo-users]

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Hi Glenn,
Another very useful tool you can use to save/manipulate/store Smalltalk scripts 
is ScriptManager (http://catalog.pharo.org/catalog/project/ScriptManager).  
There are plenty of similar tools but this one is very easy to use and simple 
and has been doing the job for years for me.

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      From: Glenn Hoetker <ghoet...@me.com>
 To: pharo-users@lists.pharo.org 
 Sent: Sunday, June 11, 2017 7:23 PM
 Subject: [Pharo-users] Help in thinking about how to save a "program"
   
Hi all.  I’m new to Pharo and loving it.  As I transition from a text-file 
based mindset, I’m a little stuck and would appreciate help in how to think 
about a situation in a Pharonic (Pharo-ish, Pharoc?) way.
I”m crafting a short program to help me process a large text file 
(specifically: extract, sorting, and regularizing the “keyword” fields of a 
large BibTex file). Especially since I don’t really know what I’m doing, 
working in a Playground has been a great development environment.  Now that the 
program is complete (under 30 lines, wonderful), I want to be able to save it 
for future reference (and perhaps for future use).  If I’d written a shell 
script, I’d just save “fixBibDeskKeyWords.sh” to a directory. I’m not sure what 
to do in the Pharo environment, thought.
At the moment, it just lives in the Playground I’ve developed it on.  I could 
save the image and leave that Playground open, but I’m just positive that’s not 
a best practice. I also worry about what happens if I closed/cleared that 
Playground by accident.
I think I understand that, if I created a new package, I could use Monticello 
to save it to a local cache and load it into a new image whenever I needed it.  
But, given that it’s short, highly specialized and fairly linear, the idea of 
creating a “GHBibDeskStuff” package with one class (“GBibDeskKeywordFixer” 
containing a single “FixFile” method seems really heavy and awkward.
Can one save the contents of a Playground in a Pharonic way?  Is there a better 
approach?
Thank you to all involved in this wonderful programming ecosystem. I appreciate 
any advice.
Glenn
Glenn Hoetkerghoetker@me.comhttp://hoetker.faculty.asu.edu




   

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