It can probably work in P8 because parts of Spec20 are working in P8 but not all the features and widgets like tables and others. But torsten will tell us.
> On 3 May 2020, at 17:34, Esteban Maringolo <emaring...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Excellent Torsten! > > I guess it will not work in Pharo 8 because of the Spec 2 requirement. Right? > > Regards! > > Esteban A. Maringolo > > On Sat, May 2, 2020 at 5:35 PM Torsten Bergmann <asta...@gmx.de> wrote: >> >> Hi, >> >> time flows and Pharo-Project is improving on all ends since its inception in >> 2008. As you know over time for the code project hosting we used >> SqueakSource, SS3 repos and other and later switched to SmalltalkHub >> available on http://smalltalkhub.com. >> Starting with Iceberg in Pharo 6 many community projects are now hosted >> elsewhere - most of them moved to GitHub. Pharo's git support allows >> also for GitLab, BitBucket and other git hosting services. >> >> I still think easy and quick accessibility to external (re)sources directly >> from the image is key - especially for new users who often get lost >> among all the various things that are available. Back in 2013 I therefore >> provided a small tool called ConfigBrowser as a replacement for >> MetacelloConfigurationBrowser to easily load Metacello configs directly into >> Pharo. >> >> Later we improved quick loading with a primary tool called "Catalog" written >> by Esteban. Catalog is indexing every 24 hours all configs within >> specific meta-repositories on SmalltalkHub (per Pharo version) like >> >> http://www.smalltalkhub.com/#!/~Pharo/MetaRepoForPharo80 >> >> to automatically build >> >> http://catalog.pharo.org/ >> >> and also a JSON source >> >> http://catalog.pharo.org/catalog/json >> >> The last one feeds the catalog browser and catalog spotter search within the >> Pharo image. >> >> So Catalog helped us and especially new Pharo users to find what is >> available as external project or package. Unfortunately some package >> maintainers >> are too lazy and do not maintain their configs over old and new Pharo >> versions. Also SmalltalkHub.com is now seen as legacy and will only be >> available >> in a read only mode or as a browseable archive soon. >> >> So we have to think about others steps beyond Catalog and (triggered by a >> recent discussion on Discord) I started now a simple tool that helped me >> finding all GitHub projects marked with "pharo" as GitHub topic. I >> additionally also added previous catalog loading. More sources could be added >> as well as some kind of custom stores/plugins. Maybe this tool could be the >> base for a future replacement of the catalog tool. >> >> Long story short - let me introduce "Pharo Compendium": >> >> Compendium is a new UI tool to list, browse and load Pharo artefacts from >> the web like: >> >> - GitHub Projects >> - Catalog Projects >> >> and other >> >> By default there are two plugin packages available for GitHub and Catalog - >> but you can implement own ones easily to connect to other sources >> on the web. Compendium is available on: >> >> https://github.com/astares/Pharo-Compendium >> >> It is implemented using the new Spec2 UI framework - so you need a recent >> Pharo 9 image to give it a try. Just run: >> >> Metacello new >> repository: 'github://astares/Pharo-Compendium/src'; >> baseline: 'Compendium'; >> load >> >> to load the tool. Then go to "Tools" -> "Compendium Browser". Attached is a >> screenshot demoing the primary functionality. >> >> If you want your GitHub project to be listed in the tool you simply need to >> add the topic "pharo" to the GitHub repository on the GitHub webpage. >> >> Feel free to comment or help improving the tool by sending PR's. >> >> Thx >> T. (aka astares) >> >> > -------------------------------------------- Stéphane Ducasse http://stephane.ducasse.free.fr / http://www.pharo.org 03 59 35 87 52 Assistant: Julie Jonas FAX 03 59 57 78 50 TEL 03 59 35 86 16 S. Ducasse - Inria 40, avenue Halley, Parc Scientifique de la Haute Borne, Bât.A, Park Plaza Villeneuve d'Ascq 59650 France
