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Pharo 2.0 Released

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Re: Pharo 2.0 Released

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Post by Garoof »

bergie3000 wrote: post #16

Strange that the Pharo home page doesn't explain what Pharo does. I'm not familiar with Pharo and after scrutinizing the Pharo home page I'm still don't have a clue what it does. I see a lot of mentions of Smalltalk on this page yet 'Smalltalk' doesn't appear on the Pharo home page. Am I missing something? If I'm not already familiar with Pharo, am I simply not part of the intended audience?

> I see a lot of mentions of Smalltalk on this page yet 'Smalltalk' doesn't appear on the Pharo home page.

Huh? Are we looking at the same page? On the home page I see "Pharo's goal is to deliver a clean, innovative, free open-source Smalltalk-inspired environment."

(Note that the HN link is not to the home page, but to the 2.0 download page.)

Re: Pharo 2.0 Released

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Post by dh83 »

emaringolo wrote: post #18
dh83 wrote: post #7

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Yes seaside is still in active development and there is progress on getting a nice configuration working on Pharo 2.0. Until then you can use our manual build from https://ci.inria.fr/pharo-contribution/job/Seaside-2.0/ to test it.

It isn't fully functional, is it? The image from the CI opens with an STDOUT error. What's missing to have a "nice" (working?) configuration for Pharo 2.0?

Seaside works, yet it has not been officially release for 2.0 hence we rely on a gofer script to load all dependencies. What error? I doubt it's related to seaside. And for the configuration we mostly need somebody to do it :) since the seaside config is pretty big on its own you got to be careful when changing things for a new release.

Re: Pharo 2.0 Released

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Post by epo »

vincentperes wrote: post #17
bergie3000 wrote: post #16

Strange that the Pharo home page doesn't explain what Pharo does. I'm not familiar with Pharo and after scrutinizing the Pharo home page I'm still don't have a clue what it does. I see a lot of mentions of Smalltalk on this page yet 'Smalltalk' doesn't appear on the Pharo home page. Am I missing something? If I'm not already familiar with Pharo, am I simply not part of the intended audience?

agree, really hard to find out what it is, the only work that I catch and gave me a hint is 'virtual machines', but still pretty vague

Must be really hard to figure you are looking at a download page and then to click on "home".

Re: Pharo 2.0 Released

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Post by [deleted] »

diminish wrote: post #23
rasur wrote: post #6

Double ended fun! Pharo at the backend, Amber smalltalk on the client. Excellent news from the Pharo team! It's the most fun I've had playing with computers for almost a decade - Long may it continue!

Could someone explain, why pharo matters? I just noticed it on HN#1, and never heard of it before.

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Re: Pharo 2.0 Released

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Post by sj4nz »

Someone needs to put what "Pharo" is on the front page of their web site somewhere else other than just the title element in the header which I ignore most of the time. Browser tabs are usually really narrow if you have 8-9 open. :)

I had to come here to learn it was a Smalltalk environment.

Re: Pharo 2.0 Released

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Post by gecko »

stuffihavemade wrote: post #5

Is Seaside still being developed? Seems that it died out with DabbleDB being bought up and the take over of the client side js frameworks.

Seaside is still developed, but if I were writing a website in Smalltalk right now, I'd be using one of the REST frameworks along with Amber Smalltalk, not Seaside. IMHO, Seaside is an amazing and beautiful piece of technology whose time has passed. I'd personally probably look at something like Iliad instead.
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