Re: [Pharo-users] example of stand-alone desktop app

2015-12-26 Thread Damien Cassou
On December 25, 2015 11:17:01 AM GMT+01:00, "Saša Janiška" wrote: >Hello, > >I've decided to end my search for an appropriate language/environment >in >order to write open-surce multi-platform with Pharo. :-)  > >Playing a bit with 5.0 image, watching Dimitris' tutorial series, >reading several a

Re: [Pharo-users] which FFI to use

2015-12-26 Thread Damien Cassou
On December 26, 2015 8:53:47 AM GMT+01:00, "Saša Janiška" wrote: >Considering that I use x86_64 Linux, I wonder if there is some >possibility to call 64bit C library or I'd have to compile it as 32bit? You can only call 32bits libraries. Mainstream Linux distributions have both 32 and 64 so th

Re: [Pharo-users] which FFI to use

2015-12-26 Thread Saša Janiška
On Sub, 2015-12-26 at 09:37 +0100, Damien Cassou wrote: > You can only call 32bits libraries. Mainstream Linux distributions > have both 32 and 64 so there is no theoretical problem here. The only > problem is that it makes installation harder unless you package your > app with distribution-specif

Re: [Pharo-users] seeking your tutorials

2015-12-26 Thread Martin Bähr
sorry, responding to this slipped off my todo-list somehow Excerpts from stepharo's message of 2015-12-10 20:42:27 +0100: > For when do you need that? google code-in is running now, until end of january. new tasks can be added any time. > I have the magritte tutorial and we are writing a web tu

Re: [Pharo-users] seeking your tutorials

2015-12-26 Thread Martin Bähr
Excerpts from Markus Schlager's message of 2015-12-10 22:55:22 +0100: > Some material (in German) I use at school (10th Grade, Gymnasium). The > Prof-Stef-Tutorial is about pong, developed with pharo 1.3, I guess, but > changed a little for pharo 3.0. > > http://www.gymnasium-untergriesbach.de/s

[Pharo-users] Block that doesn't leak memory

2015-12-26 Thread webwarrior
BlockClosure objects hold reference to object that created them via outerContext receiver. This can cause memory leaks when moving blocks around/deepcopying/serializing. Is there a way to get "lightweight" block that has empty outerContext (like when executing code in Playground) or is there anoth

[Pharo-users] Github + Metacello + Baselines

2015-12-26 Thread Julián Maestri
I'm trying to use a BaselineOf approach for development, and wanted to know if I got something wrong. 1. Development must be done on the baseline? 2. Configurations must reference a specific point (commit,tag,branch) of the baseline? 3. My dependencies to other projects must be Baselines or Config

[Pharo-users] Transcendental #new (was Re: why Pillar)

2015-12-26 Thread Robert Withers
> On Dec 26, 2015, at 2:26 AM, Saša Janiška wrote: > > On Pet, 2015-12-25 at 15:59 -0500, Robert Withers wrote: > > Hello Robert, Good day Saša, > >> Welcome to Pharo! I view use of Pharo (squeak) as a knowledge >> sacrifice eliminating bondage to Karma. This is not the mainstream and >> a