Re: [Pharo-users] [Pharo-dev] GSOC 2015 Call for Ideas

2015-02-19 Thread Andrea Ferretti
Hi Serge, as I said I do not really have the time now to get involved in a gsoc proposal, but I can give you my perspective. There are two sides to the story. The first one is complementary to SciSmalltalk: in order to analize data, you need to get data in first. So, one may want to read - say -

[Pharo-users] Using the ~pharo/stable PPA

2015-02-19 Thread Markus Fritsche
Hello list, it looks to me that old and new packages have different dependencies. If you're *not* using pillar or phratch, and have problems updating the pharo packages, please execute dpkg -l | grep -i pharo | awk ' { print $2 } ' | xargs sudo apt-get -y purge ; sudo apt-get update && sudo apt

[Pharo-users] Send message on pharo open/close?

2015-02-19 Thread David Carlos Manuelda
I need for my application to register its main class somehow, that pharo will send a message (class side) to it whenever image is started/finished, for example, to reconfigure database connections as they get invalid when image closes and opens again. Is there any hook for pharo to be able to s

Re: [Pharo-users] Send message on pharo open/close?

2015-02-19 Thread Paul DeBruicker
use #startUp: and #shutDown: on the class side of your class. check implementors of those methods for examples. David Carlos Manuelda wrote > I need for my application to register its main class somehow, that pharo > will send a message (class side) to it whenever image is started/finished,

Re: [Pharo-users] i feel dumb / Pharo3 > OrderedCollection >> do:

2015-02-19 Thread S Krish
I presumed shallowCopy for literal arrays / OrderedCollection should have been a true copy. Perhaps need to understand this.. shallowCopy "Answer a copy of the receiver which shares the receiver's instance variables. It should never be overridden. I'm invoked from the copy template method. Sub

Re: [Pharo-users] i feel dumb / Pharo3 > OrderedCollection >> do:

2015-02-19 Thread Marcus Denker
> On 20 Feb 2015, at 06:23, S Krish wrote: > > > I presumed shallowCopy for literal arrays / OrderedCollection should have > been a true copy. Perhaps need to understand this.. > OrderdCollection is not just one object, but it holds on to an Array that has it’s content. You copy the outsid