> On 29 Jun 2018, at 23:32, Ben Coman <b...@openinworld.com> wrote: > > Per (https://github.com/exercism/meta/issues/91) > it looks like the syntax highlighter is "prism" (https://prismjs.com/). > I added ".st" for Pharo... (https://github.com/exercism/m > eta/issues/90#issuecomment-399412215). > > It briefly crossed my mind to wonder if using ".st" for both traditional > fileout format and tonel format might cause complications, > but that might be jumping at shadows. Ultimately the both comprise > Smalltalk syntax. > > cheers -ben > > On 30 June 2018 at 01:55, Tim Mackinnon <tim@testit.works> wrote: > >> Hi Ben - it looks completely do-able. >> >> Just submitted my hello world for python - and it wasn’t anything >> particularly special. I thought your suggestion of using Tonel is perfect - >> I’m just not sure how well the exercism site will render tonel format >> (ideally with correct colour coding). >> >> I’ve noticed there are lots of Textmate themes for Smalltalk floating >> around (and indeed I took one and put it on my iPad for a text app who’s >> name I’ve forgotten and it seemed to render tonal fine). So if exercism >> uses that - then it really shouldn’t be a ton of work to make the >> submit/pull calls like you suggested? It seems that exercism is just >> providing conversations and a push pull mechanism - so really its git with >> training wheels? Or have I missed something? >> >> Tim >> >> On 29 Jun 2018, at 17:14, Ben Coman <b...@openinworld.com> wrote: >> >> >> >> On 29 June 2018 at 22:53, Tim Mackinnon <tim@testit.works> wrote: >> >>> Presumably someone is working on Pharo Exercism (did I notice Ben or >>> Hilaire asking about the tonel format for it?) >>> >>> Is it possible for someone to put a comment in the repo for it - so we >>> can coordinate effort? I’m assuming that someone can at least get hello >>> world working as an example? >>> >>> It would also be handy if someone who understands how it works, can give >>> a quick explanation here - as I would offer to suggest it as something for >>> the next UK Smalltalk gathering next month. I’m assuming the cli submits >>> files to some travis runner and you get results back - and we just have to >>> fill something in that will interpret those files and launch a command line >>> pharo to get the results (presumably handling walkbacks in a way that the >>> results get fed back). And then I’m guess we have a pharo add-in that would >>> let you do this from the image some way too? >>> >>> Tim >>> >> >> I don't know much or even how I ended up tuning in on it - but of several >> of these sorts of initiatives I've heard about, Exercism looks like a good >> one. >> I haven't put any thought into exercises, but have been thinking about >> infrastructure. >> >> Here is some discussion about making a code exporter to be able to use >> the command line tool to interact with the server. >> https://github.com/exercism/pharo/issues/6#issuecomment-398346884 >> >> I've been looking at how the command line tool communicates with the >> server >> to determine how hard it would be too hard to write a Pharo direct >> interface to their server. >> I wasn't planning to share my experiments yet, but since it may be a >> while before I get a chance to extend it further, >> perhaps it interests someone... >> https://github.com/bencoman/pharogui-exercism >> >> On 30 June 2018 at 06:38, Tim Mackinnon <tim@testit.works> wrote:
> Nice one Ben - I think a few quick iterations could get something out the > door and then we can refine it and make it really cool! > Btw, for on lookers, I'm more and more liking what I see in Exercism, with templates to help generate problem descriptions and test data for exercises. For example... * https://github.com/exercism/problem-specifications/blob/master/exercises/dominoes/description.md * https://github.com/exercism/problem-specifications/blob/master/exercises/dominoes/canonical-data.json * https://github.com/exercism/docs/blob/master/language-tracks/exercises/anatomy/readmes.md cheers -ben
