This week (48/2020) on the Issue Tracker

That was a busy week.. we merged 50 Pull requests the last 7 days. And no, not only trivialities!


Graphics
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Add the missing implementation of OSSDL2GLRenderer >> #pixelExtent #7786
        https://github.com/pharo-project/pharo/pull/7786

Clean the OSWindowGenericRenderer texture APIs for properly implementing a text renderer #7836
        https://github.com/pharo-project/pharo/pull/7836


Fluid Class Definition
=======================
Cleanups…

Fixes: #7816 this is what is breaking #7774 #7817
        https://github.com/pharo-project/pharo/pull/7817

- 7820 class description contains dead code related to slots printing #7828
        https://github.com/pharo-project/pharo/pull/7828
       
- Trait was missing the #named:package: instance creation method #7837
        https://github.com/pharo-project/pharo/pull/7837
       
- Origin/7770 cleaning old definition printer #7845
        https://github.com/pharo-project/pharo/pull/7845


FFI
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- Cleanup UnifiedFFI packages #7793
        https://github.com/pharo-project/pharo/pull/7793
       
- Extracting FFI backend #7834
        https://github.com/pharo-project/pharo/pull/7834

Variables/Compiler
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- MetaLinks-Cleanup-Variables2 #7742
        Instead of names, use Variables! More to come.
        https://github.com/pharo-project/pharo/pull/7742

- SemanticAnalysis-Args-are-read #7844
        Arguments are now correctly tagged as #read im semantic analysis
        https://github.com/pharo-project/pharo/pull/7844

- Compilerbased-meta-data-tagging #7779
        We now tag methods with #halt calls during compilation
        instead of scanning bytecode slowly later.
        https://github.com/pharo-project/pharo/pull/7779

Speed Improvements
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speedup #hasProperty: a little by using includesProperty: instead of #propertyAt:ifAbsent:

- CompiledMethod-hasProperty-use-includesProperty #7854
        https://github.com/pharo-project/pharo/pull/7854

This lead to a Proposal: Simplify How Pragmas are stored (feedback wanted!)
        - https://github.com/pharo-project/pharo/issues/7871


Bug Fixes
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- Fix side-effect in MCOrganizationDefinition #7815
        https://github.com/pharo-project/pharo/pull/7815

- #ensureCreateDirectory` Shouldn't Resolve #7833
        https://github.com/pharo-project/pharo/pull/7833

- fixing-title-in-osx #7843
        Blog post: https://thepharo.dev/2020/11/25/a-vm-bug-no-an-image-one/
        https://github.com/pharo-project/pharo/pull/7843
       
- Fixing dependencies error. #7856
        https://github.com/pharo-project/pharo/pull/7856

- 7862-Cleaning-finder-code-glicthes #7864
        https://github.com/pharo-project/pharo/pull/7864

Small Improvements
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- 7755 re excessive arguments rule should exclude ffi callouts #7757
        https://github.com/pharo-project/pharo/pull/7757

- 7777-Could-we-have-isTestMethod-on-Symbol-too #7785
        https://github.com/pharo-project/pharo/pull/7785
       
- 7347 improve exception description api #7661
        https://github.com/pharo-project/pharo/pull/7661
       
- Accessor generator should create formatted version #7853
        https://github.com/pharo-project/pharo/pull/7853

- Add additional linux platform checking #7803
        https://github.com/pharo-project/pharo/pull/7803



Unused Varianbles Cleanup
=========================
I wrote about this:
https://blog.marcusdenker.de/finding-unused-variables-an-example-for-first-class-variables

The tests are for now on “self skip” until we clean the unused vars.

- Cleanup-Unused-Ivars #7780
        https://github.com/pharo-project/pharo/pull/7780
       
- add testNoUnusedClassVariablesLeft (skipped for now) #7784
        https://github.com/pharo-project/pharo/pull/7784

Lot of activity to clean it up:

- Remove unused var in SycMethodNameEditorTest #7799
        https://github.com/pharo-project/pharo/pull/7799

- Var cleanup in DependencyAnalyser #7791
        https://github.com/pharo-project/pharo/pull/7791

- Care on unused ivars in Renraku #7811
        https://github.com/pharo-project/pharo/pull/7811
       
- Unused ivar MorphicTabManagerAdapter #7809
        https://github.com/pharo-project/pharo/pull/7809
       
- Care on unsued ivars in Calypso #7814
        https://github.com/pharo-project/pharo/pull/7814
       
- Unused ivar in Reflectivity-Tools-Tests #7824
        https://github.com/pharo-project/pharo/pull/7824
       
- Unused ivar in Clap #7822
        https://github.com/pharo-project/pharo/pull/7822
       
- Remove unused trait users #7797
        https://github.com/pharo-project/pharo/pull/7797
       
- Unused ivars in UDPSocketTest #7849
        https://github.com/pharo-project/pharo/pull/7849

Cleanups
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Cleanups are those changes that do not have any immediate
impact for the users. But they prepare the future: they make code
simpler, remove dead code, add documentation, fix typos...

- Move ReAsClassRule to GeneralRules #7759
        https://github.com/pharo-project/pharo/pull/7759
       
- Rule based cleanup for RBCompositeRefactoryChange #7776
        https://github.com/pharo-project/pharo/pull/7776
       
- Simplify ReExcessiveArgumentsRule>>#basicCheck: #7789
        https://github.com/pharo-project/pharo/pull/7789
       
- remove-halt-visitEnglobingErrorNode #7801
        https://github.com/pharo-project/pharo/pull/7801
       
- Fulfil ClassTestCase>>#classToBeTested subclass reponsibility #7805
        https://github.com/pharo-project/pharo/pull/7805
       
- Cleanup and extend Dr. Test #7807
        https://github.com/pharo-project/pharo/pull/7807
       
- Cleanup DrTest - pass #2 #7819
        https://github.com/pharo-project/pharo/pull/7819
       
- Remove FFITutorial #7795
        https://github.com/pharo-project/pharo/pull/7795
       
- Merge-MethodNameEditor-RBMethodNameEditor #7775
        https://github.com/pharo-project/pharo/pull/7775
       
- PharoDocComment : remove a direct reference to RBParser #7781
        https://github.com/pharo-project/pharo/pull/7781
       
- PharoDoc-pass2 #7829
        https://github.com/pharo-project/pharo/pull/7829
       
- [Code cleaning] Replaced 'Character tab asString' to 'String tab' #7835
        https://github.com/pharo-project/pharo/pull/7835
       
- Clean up Base64MimeConverterTest #7851
        https://github.com/pharo-project/pharo/pull/7851
       
- reduce-ASTCache-reset #7783
        https://github.com/pharo-project/pharo/pull/7783
       
- 7857-Cleaning-ends-of-class-names-in-Calypso #7858
        https://github.com/pharo-project/pharo/pull/7858
       
- 7859-CalypsoContextPartTwo #7861
        https://github.com/pharo-project/pharo/pull/7861
       
- Small typo in ExtendedDatePrinter>>#printDate:format:on: #7870
        https://github.com/pharo-project/pharo/pull/7870
       
- Ban rule "class not referenced" for WebBrowser subclasses #7847
        https://github.com/pharo-project/pharo/pull/7847