[Pharo-dev] [ANN]: Pharo x.5

> Are you both impatient and conservative (and apparently confused) like me? I want to use the stable release of Pharo with the best new features of the alpha version. Also, do you ever think of cool enhancements to the IDE that for whatever reason have not made it into the release?
>
> Well, I've been collecting these things into ConfigurationOfPharoSpd. There are many little parts, which you can load with:
>     Gofer it
>    squeaksource3: 'PharoSpd';
>    package: 'ConfigurationOfPharoSpd';
>    load.
> (Smalltalk at: #ConfigurationOfPharoSpd) load.
>
> Here is a screenshot of its little browser showing the issues which have been addressed (gray means the issue is not applicable to the current image version, green means the fix has been applied):
> <Screen Shot 2013-06-18 at 9.13.03 AM.png>
> There are also a bunch of little IDE enhancements.
>
> This one is one of my favorites. Instead of sprinkling method comments like "self open" in every class-side unary method, there are Nautilus menu items to send them (and optionally inspect the result):
> <Screen Shot 2013-06-18 at 9.15.47 AM.png>
> Or you can add a boilerplate ComposableModel to a package:
> <Screen Shot 2013-06-18 at 9.17.50 AM.png>
> And some extension methods I find myself using often, like:
> * String>>surroundedByDoubleQuotes
> * DateAndTime>>printUS, which returns a string like '6/18/2013 @ 9:20 am'
> * ZnNetworkingUtils>>isPortAvailable: (doesn't take ip6 into account)
>
> Anyway, enjoy! Feedback welcome...

> Stéphane Ducasse wrote
>> I like your browser showing issue.
>> What does it show?
>> Because I'm always lost with figbuz :)
>
> Yes, I'm starting to get used to fogbugz, but I've found the interface to be
> counter-intuitive :/ Unfortunately the issue browser is not connected to
> fogbugz. It simply collects subclasses of SpdPharoIssue, which each have
> e.g. #number and #description hard-coded, and then for the status, #isFixed
> which checks to see e.g. whether a certain method which is implemented in
> the fix is present. It's not a general-purpose browser, but just to make
> sure that the configuration loaded the correct fixes. Thanks to Spec, it's
> so easy to build little UI's like this ;)
>
>
>
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> Cheers,
> Sean
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> Are you both impatient and conservative (and apparently confused) like me?
> I want to use the stable release of Pharo with the best new features of
> the alpha version. Also, do you ever think of cool enhancements to the IDE
> that for whatever reason have not made it into the release?
>
> Well, I've been collecting these things into ConfigurationOfPharoSpd.
> There are many little parts, which you can load with:
>     Gofer it
>       squeaksource3: 'PharoSpd';
>       package: 'ConfigurationOfPharoSpd';
>       load.
>   (Smalltalk at: #ConfigurationOfPharoSpd) load.