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...
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Jecel Assumpcao Jr
jeceljr
May 11, 2009 6:30 pm
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 ...
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Jeremiah S. Junken
jjunken...
May 12, 2009 2:38 am
perhaps time to grab an irc channel on gimp.net or freenode or something?...
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Russell Allen
russell.allen23
May 12, 2009 12:39 pm
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...
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Adam Spitz
adspitz
May 12, 2009 10:04 pm
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...
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Russell Allen
russell.allen23
May 12, 2009 11:58 pm
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...
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Steve Dekorte
stevedekorte
May 13, 2009 12:07 am
... I'd like to see performance stats - stuff like message sends per second....
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Jeremiah S. Junken
jjunken...
May 13, 2009 3:29 pm
I certainly would be very interested!...
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Russell Allen
russell.allen23
May 13, 2009 10:13 pm
Congrats to Dave for receiving the Dahl-Nygaard Prize for Outstanding Work in Object-Oriented Programming! ...
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Steve Dekorte
stevedekorte
May 13, 2009 11:53 pm
... Dave, if you're still on this list - Congrats!...
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J. Baltasar GarcÃ...
baltasarq
May 14, 2009 6:56 am
Congratulations ! ... It is certainly a well-deserved prize. Salud ! Baltasar -- Baltasar GarcÃa Perez-Schofield Dpt. Informática, Universidad de Vigo,...
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Russell Allen
russell.allen23
May 15, 2009 12:27 am
Hi guys, I've created a new blog for Self at: http://blog.selflanguage.org and emailed planet.smalltalk.org to get it added. The blog is running on...
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Carter Cheng
carter_cheng
Jun 29, 2009 1:44 am
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...
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Russell Allen
russell.allen23
Jun 29, 2009 2:24 am
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 ...
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Carter Cheng
carter_cheng
Jun 29, 2009 10:09 am
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...
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Russell Allen
russell.allen23
Jun 29, 2009 11:15 am
Hi Carter, Changelog is at http://selflanguage.org/documentation/changes/detailed/index.html Doesn't include the latest round of changes yet, which are...
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Mario Wolczko
mwolczko2
Jun 29, 2009 11:58 pm
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,...
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Chris Double
chris@...
Jul 21, 2009 1:31 am
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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Russell Allen
russell.allen23
Jul 21, 2009 1:54 am
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...
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Chris Double
chris@...
Jul 21, 2009 1:57 am
... 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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Russell Allen
russell.allen23
Jul 21, 2009 2:03 am
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...
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Chris Double
chris@...
Jul 21, 2009 2:09 am
... 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>...
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Russell Allen
russell.allen23
Jul 21, 2009 2:19 am
What version of GCC are you using? -Russell...
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Chris Double
chris@...
Jul 21, 2009 2:23 am
... $ 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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Russell Allen
russell.allen23
Jul 21, 2009 2:33 am
Cool. Glad to see it works on the latest. Any problems or warnings compiling? -Russell...
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Chris Double
chris@...
Jul 21, 2009 2:45 am
... 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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Chris Double
chris@...
Jul 21, 2009 10:44 am
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...
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Chris Double
chris@...
Jul 21, 2009 10:59 am
... This is how you can test the problem from the shell. On Linux, to copy across the socketConstants: os_file parent osVariants linux _AddSlots: (|...
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Chris Double
chris@...
Jul 21, 2009 1:52 pm
I found the issue. The problem is in vm/src/unix/prims/unixPrims.cpp. The address in set_sockaddr_in isn't copied under Linux. The fix is: # if...
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Russell Allen
russell.allen23
Jul 22, 2009 1:07 am
You are the perfect open source user - you find a bug, work out the issue and provide a patch all within a single day! :) If you can send me an email at...
