hi, I'm new to self, so I downloaded the latest stable version and followed the instructions. I dropped "demo.snap" on "selfdroplet.app" and tried to play...
I have an older Dell Ispiron (8600) laptop running Ubuntu 8.1 as a desktop machine, with a keyboard connected via USB. keyboard is a painfully generic 101 key...
Hi Jéraume, You could try out the new 4.4 alpha. It probably doesn't solve your keyboard problem though. I'll have a look around and see if I can track down...
Hi all, To keep things ticking over, I've released a new alpha of 4.4. The difference from the first alpha are: - When you double-click snapshots on MacOS X...
Russell, congratulations on the new release! I'll try to test the Mac version (if it runs on PPC - I have no Intel Macs) later this week and can also test ...
I don't really have the time to be on irc at the moment but a blog is a good idea. I can set up a wordpress blog at blog.squeaklanguage.org and get it listed...
What kinds of blog posts would these people be interested in? I'd be happy to write about my experiences with Self or with Klein, if you think people might be...
I'm guessing that what people would be looking for would be evidence of life and community and insight into what Self is like to actually develop in. I get the...
Congratulations ! ... It is certainly a well-deserved prize. Salud ! Baltasar -- Baltasar GarcÃa Perez-Schofield Dpt. Informática, Universidad de Vigo,...
Hi, I have been thinking about doing some implementation work and writing a self like system where self is the embedded language. I am curious to what extent...
Hi Carter, I'm not sure that you can ever be 100% safe from patents in the modern world... I can say that it is feasible to create a project with Self's ...
Thanks for the reply. I am currently thinking of implementing my own "runtime" system which uses self as the programming language of choice to interface with...
Hi Carter, Changelog is at http://selflanguage.org/documentation/changes/detailed/index.html Doesn't include the latest round of changes yet, which are...
Carter, I believe that no patents were filed at Sun on Self technology through to the official end of the project in '95. More recent implementation ideas,...
Is it possible to run the existing Self implementation in a headless environment? For example, running a webserver on a remote machine accessed via ssh. Chris....
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Hi Chris, Self's quite happy to run with or without the gui. Easiest way to create a headless image:- Start Self from the command line: Self -s Clean.snap Then...
... Great, thanks Russell, I'll give that a try. Would creating an image from scratch using "'small.self' _RunScript" also do the trick or will that leave...
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Not sure. I need to go through all those image building scripts and check they are still working (and maybe refactor them into a single script with...
... The Linux one needs some tweaks to work on my Linux distro (Arch Linux). I had to change bin/src/makeDeps.cpp: # ifdef __linux__ -# include <c++/4.1/new>...
... $ gcc --version gcc (GCC) 4.4.0 20090526 (prerelease) Copyright (C) 2009 Free Software Foundation, Inc. This is free software; see the source for copying...
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Cool. Glad to see it works on the latest. Any problems or warnings compiling? -Russell...
... It seems to run ok so far. There are a bunch of warnings during compilation. For example: ../../../vm/src/any/fast_compiler/blist.hh:46: warning:...
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Do sockets work in the Linux VM? When trying methods like openTCPHost I get an error about the slot socketConstants not existing. I notice this is defined in...