[Pharo-users] Re: Maintainer of smalltalk.org?

2021-10-06 Thread Benoit St-Jean via Pharo-users
Peter William Lount. Used to work with him, I'll let him know when I get back home! Envoyé à partir de Yahoo Courriel sur Android Le mar., oct. 5 2021 à 22:25, James Foster a écrit : I recently came across smalltalk.org and am curious to know who maintains it. I tried sending an email to

[Pharo-users] Re: Can a class be not equal to itself?

2020-12-31 Thread Benoit St-Jean via Pharo-users
It never occurred to me that it would ever be the case! I've always thought classes were singleton and that SomeClass copy would always return the sole instance of that class! I wonder what are the implications of returning a copy, say, when you add an instVar to the "original" class ?  What

Re: [Pharo-users] The results are in!

2020-02-08 Thread Benoit St-Jean via Pharo-users
--- Begin Message --- I guess I have to re-ask again since nobody answered my question from this week... Where can we post Pharo questions/remarks/thoughts/you-might-want-to-have-a-look-at-this-cool-idea/whatever (or anything that could be of any interest to Pharoers) ? MAYBE we need another

Re: [Pharo-users] About "it's not pharo but smalltalk"

2020-02-08 Thread Benoit St-Jean via Pharo-users
--- Begin Message --- Smalltalk didn't "fail". We just didn't have the CPU power at the time to achieve our dreams! And "Smalltalk is slow" was tagged forever besides the name... 2020-02-08 07:17, Ben Coman wrote:The aim of the advertised statement that Pharo-is-not-Smalltalk is to avoid you

Re: [Pharo-users] Promoting Pharo

2020-02-06 Thread Benoit St-Jean via Pharo-users
wasn‘t my proposal. Norbert On 2020-02-06 06:12, Norbert Hartl wrote: Are the numbers the order in which you will do it? Norbert Am 06.02.2020 um 11:37 schrieb Benoit St-Jean via Pharo-users mailto:pharo-users@lists.pharo.org>>: *Von: *Benoit St-Jean mailto:bstj...@yahoo.com>>

Re: [Pharo-users] Promoting Pharo

2020-02-06 Thread Benoit St-Jean via Pharo-users
wasn‘t my proposal. Norbert On 2020-02-06 06:12, Norbert Hartl wrote: Are the numbers the order in which you will do it? Norbert Am 06.02.2020 um 11:37 schrieb Benoit St-Jean via Pharo-users mailto:pharo-users@lists.pharo.org>>: *Von: *Benoit St-Jean mailto:bstj...@yahoo.com>>

Re: [Pharo-users] Promoting Pharo

2020-02-06 Thread Benoit St-Jean via Pharo-users
-06 06:12, Norbert Hartl wrote: Are the numbers the order in which you will do it? Norbert Am 06.02.2020 um 11:37 schrieb Benoit St-Jean via Pharo-users mailto:pharo-users@lists.pharo.org>>: *Von: *Benoit St-Jean mailto:bstj...@yahoo.com>> *Betreff: **Promoting Pharo* *Datum: *6. Febru

Re: [Pharo-users] Large Image Generator

2020-02-06 Thread Benoit St-Jean via Pharo-users
--- Begin Message --- Pablo, Here's my quick list of ideas to generate gigantic images... The easiest way to fill the image quickly is to load huge packages that can also generate tons of data. The firsts that come to mind are Moose, Roassal, Seaside, BioSmalltalk, PolyMath, Marea, Magma (not

[Pharo-users] Promoting Pharo

2020-02-06 Thread Benoit St-Jean via Pharo-users
--- Begin Message --- Some rough & simple ideas... 1) Make Pharo visible on Rosetta.org There is currently 1006 tasks (mini projects) implemented in 764 programming languages. Pharo is nowhere to be seen there, besides the programming language entry on the wiki for Pharo still points to pharo

Re: [Pharo-users] About "it's not pharo but smalltalk"

2020-02-06 Thread Benoit St-Jean via Pharo-users
--- Begin Message --- Then I have a question... and I'm not being sarcastic here! As Pharo users, are we allowed to suggest ideas from other environments, even other languages or projects? If I think we should implement something similar to VisualWork's MemoryPolicy in Pharo, where should I d

Re: [Pharo-users] About "it's not pharo but smalltalk"

2020-02-05 Thread Benoit St-Jean via Pharo-users
--- Begin Message --- Here we go again... What is wrong with you people? Seriously? With this "Pharo is NOT Smalltalk" BS? If it looks like a duck, swims like a duck, and quacks like a duck, then it probably is a duck! To convince yourself, I urge you all to try to evaluate this in any oth

Re: [Pharo-users] [ANN] Hashtable on pharo-contributions

2020-01-30 Thread Benoit St-Jean via Pharo-users
--- Begin Message --- Cool! If that helps, I'm currently working on a "custom" type of collection used for sampling objects based on probabilities. Should be ready in a few days if anyone's interested. For lack of a better word, it's currently called "SamplingSet". To make a long story short,

Re: [Pharo-users] Large Image Generator

2020-01-30 Thread Benoit St-Jean via Pharo-users
inished 1, the other two we are in working. Also, I will like to add an implementation of the work of Clement and Sophie to generate images to stress the GC. If you have ideas or things to add let's share them!! Cheers, Pablo On Wed, Jan 29, 2020 at 6:48 PM Benoit St-Jean via P

[Pharo-users] Large Image Generator

2020-01-29 Thread Benoit St-Jean via Pharo-users
--- Begin Message --- Just read that announcement (https://pharoweekly.wordpress.com/2020/01/29/ann-large-image-generator/) on Pharo Weekly. Anyone knows more about the precise goal of that project?  What is the exact purpose of those images and what are we trying to test?  Garbage collection

Re: [Pharo-users] Resources Page

2020-01-28 Thread Benoit St-Jean via Pharo-users
--- Begin Message --- I don't know if it's still the case but "trial version" for VAST, in the past, only meant that you could use the product forever but you didn't have the possibility to create an executable iirc. On 2020-01-28 20:37, horrido wrote: I never consider a trial version as a fre

Re: [Pharo-users] [pharo-project/pharo] Proposed improvement : performance of #atRandom: in class Bag (#5392)

2019-12-18 Thread Benoit St-Jean via Pharo-users
--- Begin Message --- While I'm at it, another improvement would be to buffer #newFrom: by reading large chunks of the argument via a ReadStream, adding the objects read to a buffer and inserting into the receiver via #add:withOccurrences:.  That way, if you read say 1000 object (of which lot

[Pharo-users] Proposed improvement : performance of #atRandom: in class Bag

2019-12-18 Thread Benoit St-Jean via Pharo-users
--- Begin Message --- For those interested, I proposed a fix to *drastically* improve the performance of Bag>>#atRandom: ! See https://github.com/pharo-project/pharo/issues/5392 -- - Benoît St-Jean Yahoo! Messenger: bstjean Twitter: @BenLeChialeux Pinterest: benoitstjean Insta

Re: [Pharo-users] SplitMix64

2019-10-25 Thread Benoit St-Jean via Pharo-users
--- Begin Message --- Of course !!! On 2019-10-25 04:57, Serge Stinckwich wrote: On Fri, Oct 25, 2019 at 4:04 AM Benoit St-Jean via Pharo-users mailto:pharo-users@lists.pharo.org>> wrote: For those interested, my implementation of the SplitMix64 pseudo-random number gen

[Pharo-users] SplitMix64

2019-10-24 Thread Benoit St-Jean via Pharo-users
--- Begin Message --- For those interested, my implementation of the SplitMix64 pseudo-random number generator. Useful if you need to generate pseudo-random big integers (up to 2^64). https://github.com/bstjean/SmalltalkStuff/tree/master/SplitMix64 - Beno??t St-Jean Yahoo! Me

Re: [Pharo-users] how to get out of this mess

2019-03-24 Thread Benoit St-Jean via Pharo-users
--- Begin Message --- Hi Roelof, I probably missed your prior posts but I do have a few questions and/or comments for you before I can be of any help! This code is for tournaments of what sport exactly?  Hockey teams?  Baseball teams?  Or tournaments between players (such as in chess where

Re: [Pharo-users] planet.smalltalk.org

2019-03-09 Thread Benoit St-Jean via Pharo-users
--- Begin Message --- Finally got a reply from the owner of smalltalk.org.  He's looking into it.  He suffered from major injuries in a staircase accident, that's why he hasn't been working on smalltalk.org for a while.  I should get other news from him very soon!  Let's wait a little while I sa

Re: [Pharo-users] Parsing text to discover general data of interest (phone, email, address, ...)

2019-03-07 Thread Benoit St-Jean via Pharo-users
--- Begin Message --- Couldn't find anything in Smalltalk but that should you give ideas and inspire you or get you started... https://github.com/search?q=contact+scraping&type=Repositories I guess we have all that's needed in Pharo : parsers (HTML, XML, PetitParser), Soup & regex ! On 2019-

Re: [Pharo-users] http://planet.smalltalk.org ?

2019-03-03 Thread Benoit St-Jean via Pharo-users
--- Begin Message --- The smalltalk.org domain was registered to Peter William Lount. I've worked with him at some point.  Maybe I could ask him if he plans to do anything with planet.smalltalk.org at all (we are still in contact) ? On 2019-03-03 20:07, Pierce Ng wrote: On Sun, Mar 03, 2019 at

Re: [Pharo-users] Fwd: startup error in windows 10

2019-01-30 Thread Benoit St-Jean via Pharo-users
laire wrote: Hi Benoit, It is DrGeo 18.06 https://launchpad.net/drgeo/trunk/18.06/+download/DrGeo.app-18.06a.zip Thanks to try out. Hilaire Le 30/01/2019 à 00:16, Benoit St-Jean via Pharo-users a écrit : Hilaire, do you have an URL so I can download the exact same thing that users has?  I'

Re: [Pharo-users] Fwd: startup error in windows 10

2019-01-29 Thread Benoit St-Jean via Pharo-users
--- Begin Message --- Hilaire, do you have an URL so I can download the exact same thing that users has?  I'm also on Windows 10. I'll try to run in dev mode and see what happens! On 2019-01-29 14:27, Hilaire wrote: I asked the user to send me the PharoDebug.log to have a more accurate feedbac

Re: [Pharo-users] Class name with diacritic character and Pharo

2019-01-27 Thread Benoit St-Jean via Pharo-users
--- Begin Message --- Sorry, my toothache meds are kicking in! lol Correction to my last post: I mean *fileouts" don't work when author name has diacritic French characters! Obviously, couldn't test filing in! On 2019-01-27 11:03, Sven Van Caekenberghe wrote: Hi Dominique, On 27 Jan 2019

Re: [Pharo-users] Class name with diacritic character and Pharo

2019-01-27 Thread Benoit St-Jean via Pharo-users
--- Begin Message --- While we're at it, a similar problem arises when the author name (in my case BenoîtStJean) contains a French diacritic. Just tested it with Pharo 7 (64 bit on Windows 10)... Fileout works fine.  But filing in crashes! On 2019-01-27 11:03, Sven Van Caekenberghe wrote: Hi

Re: [Pharo-users] adding instance variables (data) to the Object class

2019-01-16 Thread Benoit St-Jean via Pharo-users
--- Begin Message --- Petr, Since you seem to want to add this (these) extra instance variable(s) in the context of some kind of persistence (objects being retrieved/created from/to some kind of database), perhaps subclassing all your objects from a PersistentObject class (that inherits from O

Re: [Pharo-users] [Pharo-dev] New book: Pharo with Style

2018-12-31 Thread Benoit St-Jean via Pharo-users
--- Begin Message --- Besides, I forgot to add one comment : you should have guidelines for protocol naming.  It's not critical per se but I find it quite annoying to look for stuff in "enumerating" when it's been put in "printing" !  loll On 2018-12-31 03:51, Stephane Ducasse wrote: Thanks! T

Re: [Pharo-users] GPS / Longitude / Latitude library

2018-12-22 Thread Benoit St-Jean via Pharo-users
--- Begin Message --- Hi Alistair! First off, thanks for the "thank you note" in this email & on GitHub. Would you be interested in working on a port of GeoSphere (https://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/geosphere/geosphere.pdf) to Pharo ?  I'll have some spare time in the next weeks so we cou

Re: [Pharo-users] GPS / Longitude / Latitude library

2018-12-04 Thread Benoit St-Jean via Pharo-users
--- Begin Message --- Perhaps porting the R package GeoSphere to Pharo/Squeak/Smalltalk would be an option?  It's rather complete and used a lot (at least in the R community) ! https://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/geosphere/geosphere.pdf - Benoît St-Jean Yahoo! Messenger: bstj

Re: [Pharo-users] Latest Pharo and Aida/Web

2018-12-03 Thread Benoit St-Jean via Pharo-users
--- Begin Message --- If I'm not mistaken (according to the fact that both class comments are exactly the same), SecureHashAlgorithm (in Squeak) is the exact same thing as class SHA1 (in Pharo)... Just updating the code with the "new" class name will probably do the job! - Ben

Re: [Pharo-users] can I improve this

2018-12-03 Thread Benoit St-Jean via Pharo-users
--- Begin Message --- Wouldn't be that hard to implement.  We just need a modulo (like I did) when sending #next to wrap around... Or even better: a "cyclic" iterator, something like #withWrapDo: ? - Benoît St-Jean Yahoo! Messenger: bstjean Twitter: @BenLeChialeux Pinterest: b

Re: [Pharo-users] can I improve this

2018-12-03 Thread Benoit St-Jean via Pharo-users
te: Op 3-12-2018 om 17:01 schreef Benoit St-Jean via Pharo-users: Many many many thanks For me too and that is the answer I expect Two question, Why is trough StandardFileStream a line and can this also be rewritten with a StreamContents Roelof --- End Message ---

Re: [Pharo-users] can I improve this

2018-12-03 Thread Benoit St-Jean via Pharo-users
is an intellectual horizon of radius zero".  (A. Einstein) On Monday, December 3, 2018, 10:37:57 a.m. EST, Roelof Wobben wrote: Op 3-12-2018 om 16:13 schreef Benoit St-Jean via Pharo-users: > file := StandardFileStream readOnlyFileNamed: 'C:\Recv\day.1.input'. &g

Re: [Pharo-users] can I improve this

2018-12-03 Thread Benoit St-Jean via Pharo-users
eChialeux Pinterest: benoitstjean Instagram: Chef_Benito IRC: lamneth Blogue: endormitoire.wordpress.com "A standpoint is an intellectual horizon of radius zero".  (A. Einstein) On Monday, December 3, 2018, 10:12:36 a.m. EST, Roelof Wobben wrote: Op 3-12-2018 om 16:08 sc

Re: [Pharo-users] can I improve this

2018-12-03 Thread Benoit St-Jean via Pharo-users
bben: > Op 3-12-2018 om 15:30 schreef Benoit St-Jean via Pharo-users: > > Thanks, > > But at first glance you do not use the contents of file anywhere or am > I mistaken. > When I try your code on the real input I see a divide by zero error > message. > > Roelof > > > > --- End Message ---

Re: [Pharo-users] can I improve this

2018-12-03 Thread Benoit St-Jean via Pharo-users
--- Begin Message --- Concerning Day1, part2 of Advent Of Code 2018, here's my quick take (Coded in a workspace with Squeak)... | file total numbers index frequencies duplicate | duplicate := false. frequencies := Set new: 15. frequencies add: 0. numbers := OrderedCollection new: 1000. total

Re: [Pharo-users] How to take care that the + before a number is ignored

2018-12-02 Thread Benoit St-Jean via Pharo-users
personalized and it is annoying to have to commit a supplementary file in the github repository. Phil On Sun, Dec 2, 2018 at 3:27 PM Benoit St-Jean via Pharo-users wrote: Exactly! It's easier to manipulate that OrderedCollection that to open/reopen the file.  It'll be VERY han

Re: [Pharo-users] How to take care that the + before a number is ignored

2018-12-02 Thread Benoit St-Jean via Pharo-users
tual horizon of radius zero".  (A. Einstein) On Sunday, December 2, 2018, 6:26:12 a.m. EST, Sven Van Caekenberghe wrote: > On 2 Dec 2018, at 12:14, Benoit St-Jean via Pharo-users > wrote: > > > From: Benoit St-Jean > Subject: Re: [Pharo-users] How to t

Re: [Pharo-users] How to take care that the + before a number is ignored

2018-12-02 Thread Benoit St-Jean via Pharo-users
LeChialeux Pinterest: benoitstjean Instagram: Chef_Benito IRC: lamneth Blogue: endormitoire.wordpress.com "A standpoint is an intellectual horizon of radius zero".  (A. Einstein) On Sunday, December 2, 2018, 7:15:06 a.m. EST, Roelof Wobben wrote: Op 2-12-2018 om 12:19 sc

Re: [Pharo-users] How to take care that the + before a number is ignored

2018-12-02 Thread Benoit St-Jean via Pharo-users
Einstein) On Sunday, December 2, 2018, 6:09:42 a.m. EST, Roelof Wobben wrote: Op 2-12-2018 om 11:55 schreef Benoit St-Jean via Pharo-users: Nope, only the part how I can read the file. Roelof --- End Message ---

Re: [Pharo-users] How to take care that the + before a number is ignored

2018-12-02 Thread Benoit St-Jean via Pharo-users
Roelof Wobben wrote: Op 2-12-2018 om 11:55 schreef Benoit St-Jean via Pharo-users: Nope, only the part how I can read the file. Roelof --- End Message ---

Re: [Pharo-users] How to take care that the + before a number is ignored

2018-12-02 Thread Benoit St-Jean via Pharo-users
erest: benoitstjean Instagram: Chef_Benito IRC: lamneth Blogue: endormitoire.wordpress.com "A standpoint is an intellectual horizon of radius zero".  (A. Einstein) On Sunday, December 2, 2018, 5:50:30 a.m. EST, Roelof Wobben wrote: Op 2-12-2018 om 11:43 schreef Benoit St

Re: [Pharo-users] How to take care that the + before a number is ignored

2018-12-02 Thread Benoit St-Jean via Pharo-users
--- Begin Message --- You're giving yourself *A LOT* of trouble by not simply reading a file!  Besides, you'll have the same problem for every problem, twice per problem! - Benoît St-Jean Yahoo! Messenger: bstjean Twitter: @BenLeChialeux Pinterest: benoitstjean Instagram: Che

Re: [Pharo-users] How to take care that the + before a number is ignored

2018-12-02 Thread Benoit St-Jean via Pharo-users
--- Begin Message --- Roeloff, Is this for the Advent of Code 2018? The easiest way is to read the input file...  Then, I can guide you from there!  ;) - Benoît St-Jean Yahoo! Messenger: bstjean Twitter: @BenLeChialeux Pinterest: benoitstjean Instagram: Chef_Benito IRC: lamne

Re: [Pharo-users] split on space or -

2018-11-24 Thread Benoit St-Jean via Pharo-users
--- Begin Message --- Nice! Never realized we had that method in the image! - Benoît St-Jean Yahoo! Messenger: bstjean Twitter: @BenLeChialeux Pinterest: benoitstjean Instagram: Chef_Benito IRC: lamneth Blogue: endormitoire.wordpress.com "A standpoint is an intellectual

Re: [Pharo-users] split on space or -

2018-11-24 Thread Benoit St-Jean via Pharo-users
--- Begin Message --- You need to add something like this in class String: rejectForAcronymsWords: aCollectionOfUnwantedWords " 'An example with an unwanted particle at the start of a sentence and also one in the middle'     rejectForAcronymsWords: #('a' 'an' 'the' 'in' 'of' 'at' 'and')      "

Re: [Pharo-users] Line Number...

2018-11-20 Thread Benoit St-Jean via Pharo-users
--- Begin Message --- You probably need: String>>#lineNumberCorrespondingToIndex: - Benoît St-Jean Yahoo! Messenger: bstjean Twitter: @BenLeChialeux Pinterest: benoitstjean Instagram: Chef_Benito IRC: lamneth Blogue: endormitoire.wordpress.com "A standpoint is an intellectua

Re: [Pharo-users] Where do we go now ?

2018-04-21 Thread Benoit St-Jean via Pharo-users
--- Begin Message --- >What I find sad is that people spent hours talking instead of doing. >This is why Smalltalk is for them. >Personally I prefer Pharo. Well, I guess I don't belong here anymore since "Pharo is NOT Smalltalk" as you keep saying! And since I've been a Smalltalker for only 25

Re: [Pharo-users] Where do we go now ?

2018-04-20 Thread Benoit St-Jean via Pharo-users
--- Begin Message --- I concur with Sean's comments.  The problem is not using names : the problem is for new users. A very quick look at what's in Pharo 7 shows the following names : Iceberg, Ombu, Calypso, Flashback, Nautilus, Renraku, Zodiac, Shift, Zinc, Hermes, Beacon, Cargo, Hermes, Opal,

[Pharo-users] UTF-8 encoding

2018-04-16 Thread Benoit St-Jean via Pharo-users
--- Begin Message --- Regarding the problems I have with my firstname and file paths and utf-8 encoding, I found something weird in the UTF-8 encoding.  In fact, to be more precise, I found something strange when converting a String to a ByteArray (which UTF-8 encoders convert from) If I look at

Re: [Pharo-users] Some random musings

2018-04-16 Thread Benoit St-Jean via Pharo-users
--- Begin Message --- "Float randomBetween: -4.1 and: 2.5 would be the most descriptive and compliant to your signature ;-)" I also prefer #randomBetween:and: . "Going to the class side of Float makes sense because you create a new instance." But I'm not so sure about putting this on the class si

Re: [Pharo-users] Some random musings

2018-04-16 Thread Benoit St-Jean via Pharo-users
--- Begin Message --- "Any interest to introduce a method to produce random float numbers in an interval in Pharo ?" Yes, that would definitely be useful   And it would not only be useful for Float but for all numbers.  Would save us from the usual "#truncated and +1" trick we always have to

Re: [Pharo-users] Pharo Launcher

2018-04-15 Thread Benoit St-Jean via Pharo-users
ng the MSI, the laucher should go into %APPDATA% and images/vms to %DOCUMENTS%/Pharo/... This is the observed behavior of that new version. Older versions worked differently on Windows 10. Best,Phil On Mon, Apr 16, 2018 at 12:02 AM, Benoit St-Jean via Pharo-users wrote: -- Forward

Re: [Pharo-users] Pharo Launcher

2018-04-15 Thread Benoit St-Jean via Pharo-users
t like that before, so I suspect a VM thing. Phil On Sun, Apr 15, 2018 at 9:00 PM, Hilaire wrote: Can you make a search for your PharoDebug.log, because I can see, at least on P7 and Linux, this file is not always located nearby the image but at the user root directory. Hilaire Le 15

Re: [Pharo-users] Pharo Launcher

2018-04-15 Thread Benoit St-Jean via Pharo-users
--- Begin Message --- "What path did you install to?" The installer put it in: C:\Users\Benoît St-Jean\AppData\Local\Programs\Pharo\BCPharoLauncher> - Benoît St-Jean Yahoo! Messenger: bstjean Twitter: @BenLeChialeux Pinterest: benoitstjean Instagram: Chef_Benito IRC: lamneth

Re: [Pharo-users] Where do we go now ?

2018-04-15 Thread Benoit St-Jean via Pharo-users
--- Begin Message --- "I don't understand what you mean.  There is a setting that *gives* you the opportunity to decide." I have no clue, I've never been able to actually have PharoLauncher start & work!!! - Benoît St-Jean Yahoo! Messenger: bstjean Twitter: @BenLeChialeux Pin

Re: [Pharo-users] Where do we go now ?

2018-04-15 Thread Benoit St-Jean via Pharo-users
n Twitter: @BenLeChialeux Pinterest: benoitstjean Instagram: Chef_Benito IRC: lamneth Blogue: endormitoire.wordpress.com "A standpoint is an intellectual horizon of radius zero".  (A. Einstein) On Sunday, April 15, 2018, 12:58:44 a.m. EDT, Ben Coman wrote: On 13 April 2018 at 17:49

Re: [Pharo-users] Pharo Launcher

2018-04-15 Thread Benoit St-Jean via Pharo-users
04/2018 à 20:52, Benoit St-Jean via Pharo-users a écrit : > Downloaded it.  Installed it.  Started it.  Selected an image.  Bam.  > The app vanished. > > Also tried on a > brand-new-and-fresh-Windows-10-machine-with-nothing-previously-installed > and same thing. > > The ap

Re: [Pharo-users] Where do we go now ?

2018-04-15 Thread Benoit St-Jean via Pharo-users
--- Begin Message --- "I find NPM as obscure as Pharo, honestly, and VA Smalltalk is worse (wth does abt or sst stand for?).  Grunt, Gulp, etc., how do the names relate to what they do?  " iirc, Abt was for "Application Builder Toolkit", Cw was for "Common Widgets", "Cfs was for "Common File Sy

Re: [Pharo-users] Where do we go now ?

2018-04-15 Thread Benoit St-Jean via Pharo-users
--- Begin Message --- "At some point we should force rule "All packages have comments". And indication with icon like we do for classes."  +1 - Benoît St-Jean Yahoo! Messenger: bstjean Twitter: @BenLeChialeux Pinterest: benoitstjean Instagram: Chef_Benito IRC: lamneth Blogue

Re: [Pharo-users] Where do we go now ?

2018-04-15 Thread Benoit St-Jean via Pharo-users
--- Begin Message --- OS/2 ?  What???  Is it free/openSource?  Man!  Where can I get that!!!  Good memories - Benoît St-Jean Yahoo! Messenger: bstjean Twitter: @BenLeChialeux Pinterest: benoitstjean Instagram: Chef_Benito IRC: lamneth Blogue: endormitoire.wordpress.com

[Pharo-users] Pharo Launcher

2018-04-15 Thread Benoit St-Jean via Pharo-users
--- Begin Message --- "To be clear, the problem was heavily influenced by the constraints of an external tool.Get PharoLauncher installed in the right location and it works like a dream.Did you try the proof-of-concept installer I posted previously to the list... http://www.mediafire.com/file/3g

Re: [Pharo-users] Where do we go now ?

2018-04-13 Thread Benoit St-Jean via Pharo-users
--- Begin Message --- For those interested. Created the issues 21686, 21693, 21695, 21696. And more to come... - Benoît St-Jean Yahoo! Messenger: bstjean Twitter: @BenLeChialeux Pinterest: benoitstjean Instagram: Chef_Benito IRC: lamneth Blogue: endormitoire.wordpress.com

Re: [Pharo-users] Where do we go now ?

2018-04-13 Thread Benoit St-Jean via Pharo-users
--- Begin Message --- BTW, why put an .exe installer for Windows available when it crashes right from the start? It just doesn't work at all.  Period.  For everyone. And I thought looking for senders of a method was something we mastered a long time ago, like starting with Smalltalk-76.  Am I su

Re: [Pharo-users] Where do we go now ?

2018-04-13 Thread Benoit St-Jean via Pharo-users
--- Begin Message --- "You cannot take an alpha version and expect production quality." I'm on Windows 10, using Pharo 7.0 alpha 32 bit. Can I at least expect to be able to save code in my local Monticello repository ? It bombs. I just reported a bug! Can I expect the Windows installer for Pharo

[Pharo-users] Where do we go now ?

2018-04-12 Thread Benoit St-Jean via Pharo-users
--- Begin Message --- Hello guys, Just a quick word to get some things straight because, quite frankly, I really don't know where we're heading. When Pharo started, the goal was to depart from Squeak and do a *major clean up* of all the code, especially Morphic.  The promise of a new, clean & l

Re: [Pharo-users] In P7 scrpt variable to tmp when in debugger

2018-04-12 Thread Benoit St-Jean via Pharo-users
--- Begin Message --- What happens if you debug the script starting with a "self halt" ?  Are the variables there with their original name?  looks like decompiled code.  A problem with your .sources file? - Benoît St-Jean Yahoo! Messenger: bstjean Twitter: @BenLeChialeux Pin

Re: [Pharo-users] Bitwise operations in ByteArray (slicing, etc.)

2018-03-04 Thread Benoit St-Jean via Pharo-users
--- Begin Message --- Just put that in Integer. bitsSliceFrom: start to: end     "     Extract bits 4 to 6, i.e. 111 which equals to 7     2r1111000 bitsSliceFrom: 4 to: 6     "     | num mask  |     self < 0 ifTrue: [self error: 'This operation is not allowed for n

Re: [Pharo-users] Bitwise operations in ByteArray (slicing, etc.)

2018-03-04 Thread Benoit St-Jean via Pharo-users
--- Begin Message --- Hi Esteban, When you say "extract", what exactly do you mean? Let's suppose you have 86, i.e. 2r1010110 Which case do you want? a) 2r1010110 "2 to 5 = 2r10[1011]0 = 2r1011 = 11" or b) 2r1010110 "2 to 5 = 2r10[1011]0 = 2r00[1011]0 =  2r0010110 =  22" Both cases can be dea

Re: [Pharo-users] [Pharo-dev] Looking for names for the booklet collection

2018-03-04 Thread Benoit St-Jean via Pharo-users
--- Begin Message --- Why not simply: Pharo Tools & TechnologiesPharo Language & Environment - Benoît St-Jean Yahoo! Messenger: bstjean Twitter: @BenLeChialeux Pinterest: benoitstjean Instagram: Chef_Benito IRC: lamneth Blogue: endormitoire.wordpress.com "A standpoint is an

Re: [Pharo-users] Ever growing image

2018-03-04 Thread Benoit St-Jean via Pharo-users
Pinterest: benoitstjean Instagram: Chef_Benito IRC: lamneth Blogue: endormitoire.wordpress.com "A standpoint is an intellectual horizon of radius zero".  (A. Einstein) On Sunday, March 4, 2018, 5:13:30 AM EST, Esteban Lorenzano wrote: On 3 Mar 2018, at 16:35, Benoit St-

Re: [Pharo-users] Ever growing image

2018-03-03 Thread Benoit St-Jean via Pharo-users
--- Begin Message --- On a side note, being a long-time VW & VAST user, I've always felt the Image Stripper & Runtime Packager did a fairly good job at removing crap from the resulting image.  I don't recall ready anything substantial comparing the Pharo way (bootstrapping from a minimal image

Re: [Pharo-users] How do you store and manage small programs?

2017-11-25 Thread Benoit St-Jean via Pharo-users
--- Begin Message --- Have a look at Script Manager. http://catalog.pharo.org/catalog/project/ScriptManager  - Benoît St-Jean Yahoo! Messenger: bstjean Twitter: @BenLeChialeux Pinterest: benoitstjean Instagram: Chef_Benito IRC: lamneth Blogue: endormitoire.wordpress.com "A st

Re: [Pharo-users] Timespan translateToUTC problematic

2017-11-21 Thread Benoit St-Jean via Pharo-users
--- Begin Message --- Oups!  Didn't see that one.  Yes!  - Benoît St-Jean Yahoo! Messenger: bstjean Twitter: @BenLeChialeux Pinterest: benoitstjean Instagram: Chef_Benito IRC: lamneth Blogue: endormitoire.wordpress.com "A standpoint is an intellectual horizon of radius zero".

Re: [Pharo-users] Timespan translateToUTC problematic

2017-11-21 Thread Benoit St-Jean via Pharo-users
--- Begin Message --- #hasSameDayAs: - Benoît St-Jean Yahoo! Messenger: bstjean Twitter: @BenLeChialeux Pinterest: benoitstjean Instagram: Chef_Benito IRC: lamneth Blogue: endormitoire.wordpress.com "A standpoint is an intellectual horizon of radius zero".  (A. Einstein)

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

2017-06-12 Thread Benoit St-Jean via Pharo-users
--- Begin Message --- 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

Re: [Pharo-users] PostgreSQL and Pharo 6

2017-04-18 Thread Benoit St-Jean via Pharo-users
that route I get >> >>> error >> >>> #OptionAt:IfAbsent: was sent to nil . With this code >> >>> >> >>> conn2 := GAPostgresDriver new . >> >>> conn2 host: 'ec2-**-***-***-185.eu-west-1.compute.amazonaws.com' >> &g

Re: [Pharo-users] PostgreSQL and Pharo 6

2017-04-17 Thread Benoit St-Jean via Pharo-users
est-1.compute.amazonaws.com' portno: ''databaseName:'***'  userName: '*'  password:''***'. conn connectionArgs: ca. conn execute: 'select * from search_terms'. it fails with no connection, is there anyt

Re: [Pharo-users] PostgreSQL and Pharo 6

2017-04-17 Thread Benoit St-Jean via Pharo-users
nArgs: ca. conn execute: 'select * from search_terms'. it fails with no connection, is there anything else i need to do ?is there a guide for how to use this ?  On Mon, Apr 17, 2017 at 7:30 PM Dimitris Chloupis wrote: thank you Benoit  On Mon, Apr 17, 2017 at 4:23 AM Benoit St-Jean vi

Re: [Pharo-users] PostgreSQL and Pharo 6

2017-04-17 Thread Benoit St-Jean via Pharo-users
userName: '*'  password:''***'. conn connectionArgs: ca. conn execute: 'select * from search_terms'. it fails with no connection, is there anything else i need to do ?is there a guide for how to use this ?  On Mon, Apr 17, 2017 at 7:30 PM Dimitris Chloupis wrote:

Re: [Pharo-users] PostgreSQL and Pharo 6

2017-04-16 Thread Benoit St-Jean via Pharo-users
--- Begin Message --- ODBC worked fine as well if you don't need native driver access  - Benoît St-Jean Yahoo! Messenger: bstjean Twitter: @BenLeChialeux Pinterest: benoitstjean Instagram: Chef_Benito IRC: lamneth Blogue: endormitoire.wordpress.com "A standpoint is an intelle

Re: [Pharo-users] Pharo 5 ODBC

2017-03-20 Thread Benoit St-Jean via Pharo-users
--- Begin Message --- Can you give the URL of what exactly you loaded?  There's a bunch of ODBC packages/versions out there so I'd need more details.  I've used ODBC on Pharo 5 before without any problem.  Besides, what OS and database are you using?  - Benoît St-Jean Yahoo! Mes

Re: [Pharo-users] [Pharo-dev] What is the craziest bug you ever face

2017-03-13 Thread Benoit St-Jean via Pharo-users
--- Begin Message --- My worst bug(s) is(are) related to the TopLink ORM. In one particular case, we were working on a *huge* system and different "modules" were assigned to different teams.  Every module was working perfectly by itself (as confirmed by the SUnit testing) but sometimes, the datab

[Pharo-users] Socket, network, testing and coding

2017-02-28 Thread Benoit St-Jean via Pharo-users
--- Begin Message --- Hi guys, Quick question regarding sockets and testing. I'm trying to implement a simple communication protocol to exchange data (strings) between 2 images and I was wondering what was the easiest way to test/develop my code?  I want to be able to do something similar to a

Re: [Pharo-users] About asSymbol message , some questions in my mind

2017-02-10 Thread Benoit St-Jean via Pharo-users
--- Begin Message --- It can be useful if you want to save some space in some very specific cases.  You could have a one million strings 'hello' (hence one million objects) or deal transform them into symbols and have only one #hello.  I recall a coworker telling me about this ultra-fast string

[Pharo-users] Pharo Spur 64 VM

2017-02-06 Thread Benoit St-Jean via Pharo-users
--- Begin Message --- Is this normal, I could not find the Spur 64bit VM for Windows on the Pharo file server? It is available for Mac & Linux but there's no file in the "win" directory. tia--- End Message ---

Re: [Pharo-users] DatePrinter

2016-11-04 Thread Benoit St-Jean via Pharo-users
--- Begin Message --- I'm a bit late to comment but just remember that in French month and day names never use a capital letter !  - Benoît St-Jean Yahoo! Messenger: bstjean Twitter: @BenLeChialeux Pinterest: benoitstjean Instagram: Chef_Benito IRC: lamneth Blogue: endormito

Re: [Pharo-users] How does Boolean ifTrue work?

2016-11-04 Thread Benoit St-Jean via Pharo-users
--- Begin Message --- I guess you can circumvent the inlining by using perform (and selecting the code with "debug it" from the menu) as in: true perform: #ifTrue: with: [ 3 inspect ]  - Benoît St-Jean Yahoo! Messenger: bstjean Twitter: @BenLeChialeux Pinterest: benoitstjean I

Re: [Pharo-users] Glorp

2016-09-30 Thread Benoit St-Jean via Pharo-users
uild/artifact/book-result/Glorp/Glorp.html It's still a work in progress, but the install part is accurate.  Do you plan to use it with Sqlite, or with MySql/postgreSQL Renaud 2016-09-30 21:23 GMT-04:00 Benoit St-Jean via Pharo-users : -- Message transféré -- From: Be

[Pharo-users] Glorp

2016-09-30 Thread Benoit St-Jean via Pharo-users
--- Begin Message --- Hello Pharoers, I want to use Glorp and I am puzzled as to what to install. I have found a few Glorp related package and I really don't know which one to use nor which one is current.  Besides, those packages are spread across different websites. So, which one should I use?

Re: [Pharo-users] Converting a string containing dots to integer

2015-04-04 Thread Benoit St-Jean via Pharo-users
--- Begin Message --- This might do the trick: (Number readFrom: ('8.524.757' copyReplaceAll: '.' with: '')) asIntegeror even nicer (and simpler) ('8.524.757' reject: [:char | char == $.]) asInteger  - Benoit St-Jean Yahoo! Messenger: bstjean Twitter: @BenLeChialeux Pinterest: beno

Re: [Pharo-users] Converting a string containing dots to integer

2015-04-04 Thread Benoit St-Jean via Pharo-users
--- Begin Message --- Do you have more details? Such as, do you have values  with more than one dot ?  (e.g. 1.436.782)Do you have values with no dot? - Benoit St-Jean Yahoo! Messenger: bstjean Twitter: @BenLeChialeux Pinterest: benoitstjean IRC: lamneth Blogue: endormitoire.wordp