Posted by stepharo on Aug 24, 2014; 6:45pm
URL: https://forum.world.st/Can-Pharo-meet-all-your-computing-needs-tp4774250p4774447.html


> Hi folks

Welcome :)
>
> I've been playing with Pharo recently, and really enjoying writing
> some programs in the Pharo environment.
I'm happy to hear that.
> As a result, I've been wondering if I can use Pharo the way I would
> use Emacs, as an environment for doing everything.
Basically yes.
> For example, can I use Pharo to:
>
> * Send emails to this mailing list?
     Yes. In the past there was Celeste an email client.
> * Use IRC?
     There was a client somewhere
> * Start Bash?
If you ask me, I would like to we able to write pharo programs and run
them headless and one error get a debugger, edit/debug the script and
press continue and gte my script fixed.
> * Read the Pharo documentation (e.g. Pharo By Example)?
     With GT-inspector you can edit pillar file and we were thinking
that it should not be that difficult to write a little renderer

>
> If these things do exist, how do I discover them? Is there a package
> manager I can use to find new tools I can use in Pharo?
Some of them are old
     - look on squeakmap (they may not work directly in Pharo_
     - look on squeaksource
     - look on smalltalkhub

Now we are slwoly building an infrstructure where published packages
will be validated for a distribution and a catalog will be
automatically built.

stef