> On 2 May 2020, at 22:34, Torsten Bergmann <[hidden email]> wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> time flows and Pharo-Project is improving on all ends since its inception in 2008. As you know over time for the code project hosting we used
> SqueakSource, SS3 repos and other and later switched to SmalltalkHub available on http://smalltalkhub.com.
> Starting with Iceberg in Pharo 6 many community projects are now hosted elsewhere - most of them moved to GitHub. Pharo's git support allows
> also for GitLab, BitBucket and other git hosting services.
>
> I still think easy and quick accessibility to external (re)sources directly from the image is key - especially for new users who often get lost
> among all the various things that are available. Back in 2013 I therefore provided a small tool called ConfigBrowser as a replacement for
> MetacelloConfigurationBrowser to easily load Metacello configs directly into Pharo.
>
> Later we improved quick loading with a primary tool called "Catalog" written by Esteban. Catalog is indexing every 24 hours all configs within
> specific meta-repositories on SmalltalkHub (per Pharo version) like
>
>  http://www.smalltalkhub.com/#!/~Pharo/MetaRepoForPharo80
>
> to automatically build
>
>   http://catalog.pharo.org/
>
> and also a JSON source
>
>   http://catalog.pharo.org/catalog/json
>
> The last one feeds the catalog browser and catalog spotter search within the Pharo image.
>
> So Catalog helped us and especially new Pharo users to find what is available as external project or package. Unfortunately some package maintainers
> are too lazy and do not maintain their configs over old and new Pharo versions. Also SmalltalkHub.com is now seen as legacy and will only be available
> in a read only mode or as a browseable archive soon.
>
> So we have to think about others steps beyond Catalog and (triggered by a recent discussion on Discord) I started now a simple tool that helped me
> finding all GitHub projects marked with "pharo" as GitHub topic. I additionally also added previous catalog loading. More sources could be added
> as well as some kind of custom stores/plugins. Maybe this tool could be the base for a future replacement of the catalog tool.
>
> Long story short - let me introduce "Pharo Compendium":
>
> Compendium is a new UI tool to list, browse and load Pharo artefacts from the web like:
>
> - GitHub Projects
> - Catalog Projects
>
> and other
>
> By default there are two plugin packages available for GitHub and Catalog - but you can implement own ones easily to connect to other sources
> on the web. Compendium is available on:
>
>   https://github.com/astares/Pharo-Compendium
>
> It is implemented using the new Spec2 UI framework - so you need a recent Pharo 9 image to give it a try. Just run:
>
>    Metacello new
> repository: 'github://astares/Pharo-Compendium/src';
> baseline: 'Compendium';
> load
>
> to load the tool. Then go to "Tools" -> "Compendium Browser". Attached is a screenshot demoing the primary functionality.
>
> If you want your GitHub project to be listed in the tool you simply need to add the topic "pharo" to the GitHub repository on the GitHub webpage.
>
> Feel free to comment or help improving the tool by sending PR's.
>
> Thx
> T. (aka astares)
>
>
> <compendium.png>