Hi, We are happy to announce that based on the work of Glenn, Alex extended Bloc (Sparta) to work directly in the Morphic world using Cairo as a backend. Cairo is less powerful than Moz2D (see the screenshot below for an example), but the implementation addresses a concern that the community raised regarding a perceived increased liability due to the dependency to Moz2D. Essentially this means that Bloc can be treated as another graphical library that can coexist with Morphic without requiring any external VM plugin. I would also like to point out that adding a new backend and host was possible because of the many iterations (including throwing away whole implementations) that Alex and Glenn went through. I think they did an amazing job. You can find a bit more details about Bloc here: http://www.humane-assessment.com/blog/bloc-flexible-backends-hosts/ Another issue raised regarding Bloc was that of the engineering effort required to make it a reality. That is why I would also like to announce that Alex joined feenk.com where he is primarily working on the graphical stack for Pharo. Cheers, Doru -- www.tudorgirba.com www.feenk.com "To lead is not to demand things, it is to make them happen." _______________________________________________ Moose-dev mailing list Moose-dev(a)list.inf.unibe.ch https://www.list.inf.unibe.ch/listinfo/moose-dev

On May 8, 2017, at 6:00 PM, Tudor Girba <tudor(a)tudorgirba.com&gt; wrote: Hi, We are happy to announce that based on the work of Glenn, Alex extended Bloc (Sparta) to work directly in the Morphic world using Cairo as a backend. Cairo is less powerful than Moz2D (see the screenshot below for an example), but the implementation addresses a concern that the community raised regarding a perceived increased liability due to the dependency to Moz2D. Essentially this means that Bloc can be treated as another graphical library that can coexist with Morphic without requiring any external VM plugin. <bloc-two-backends-morphic-host-figures.png> I would also like to point out that adding a new backend and host was possible because of the many iterations (including throwing away whole implementations) that Alex and Glenn went through. I think they did an amazing job. You can find a bit more details about Bloc here: http://www.humane-assessment.com/blog/bloc-flexible-backends-hosts/ Another issue raised regarding Bloc was that of the engineering effort required to make it a reality. That is why I would also like to announce that Alex joined feenk.com where he is primarily working on the graphical stack for Pharo. Cheers, Doru -- www.tudorgirba.com www.feenk.com "To lead is not to demand things, it is to make them happen."

When I try to download on OSX the #dev version as outlined on Tudors blog the download of the Moz2D lib for OSX fails: code tries to #download in class MozLibraryMacInstaller from http://syrel.ch/download.php?url=https://dl.bintray.com/ syrel/Moz2D/osx/development/i386/libMoz2D.dylib which just hangs as it is not receiving a response. Any comments? Thx T. > Gesendet: Dienstag, 09. Mai 2017 um 14:04 Uhr > Von: "Alexandre Bergel" <alexandre.bergel(a)me.com&gt; > An: "Pharo Development List" <pharo-dev(a)lists.pharo.org&gt; > Cc: "Moose-related development" <moose-dev(a)list.inf.unibe.ch&gt;, "Any question about pharo is welcome" <pharo-users(a)lists.pharo.org&gt; > Betreff: Re: [Pharo-dev] [ann] bloc & cairo+morphic > > This is amazing! I gave a try an it really looks great! > > Alexandre > > > > On May 8, 2017, at 6:00 PM, Tudor Girba <tudor(a)tudorgirba.com&gt; wrote: > > > > Hi, > > > > We are happy to announce that based on the work of Glenn, Alex extended Bloc (Sparta) to work directly in the Morphic world using Cairo as a backend. > > > > Cairo is less powerful than Moz2D (see the screenshot below for an example), but the implementation addresses a concern that the community raised regarding a perceived increased liability due to the dependency to Moz2D. Essentially this means that Bloc can be treated as another graphical library that can coexist with Morphic without requiring any external VM plugin. > > > > <bloc-two-backends-morphic-host-figures.png> > > > > I would also like to point out that adding a new backend and host was possible because of the many iterations (including throwing away whole implementations) that Alex and Glenn went through. I think they did an amazing job. > > > > You can find a bit more details about Bloc here: > > http://www.humane-assessment.com/blog/bloc-flexible-backends-hosts/ > > > > Another issue raised regarding Bloc was that of the engineering effort required to make it a reality. That is why I would also like to announce that Alex joined feenk.com where he is primarily working on the graphical stack for Pharo. > > > > Cheers, > > Doru > > > > > > -- > > www.tudorgirba.com > > www.feenk.com > > > > "To lead is not to demand things, it is to make them happen." > > > > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ Moose-dev mailing list Moose-dev(a)list.inf.unibe.ch https://www.list.inf.unibe.ch/listinfo/moose-dev

Op 9 mei 2017 om 16:11 heeft Ben Coman <btc(a)openinworld.com&gt; het volgende geschreven: Glad to hear this. Sounds like good times ahead for Bloc. cheers -ben > On Tue, May 9, 2017 at 5:00 AM, Tudor Girba <tudor(a)tudorgirba.com&gt; wrote: > Hi, > > We are happy to announce that based on the work of Glenn, Alex extended Bloc (Sparta) to work directly in the Morphic world using Cairo as a backend. > > Cairo is less powerful than Moz2D (see the screenshot below for an example), but the implementation addresses a concern that the community raised regarding a perceived increased liability due to the dependency to Moz2D. Essentially this means that Bloc can be treated as another graphical library that can coexist with Morphic without requiring any external VM plugin. > > > > I would also like to point out that adding a new backend and host was possible because of the many iterations (including throwing away whole implementations) that Alex and Glenn went through. I think they did an amazing job. > > You can find a bit more details about Bloc here: > http://www.humane-assessment.com/blog/bloc-flexible-backends-hosts/ > > Another issue raised regarding Bloc was that of the engineering effort required to make it a reality. That is why I would also like to announce that Alex joined feenk.com where he is primarily working on the graphical stack for Pharo. > > Cheers, > Doru > > > -- > www.tudorgirba.com > www.feenk.com > > "To lead is not to demand things, it is to make them happen." > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Moose-dev mailing list > Moose-dev(a)list.inf.unibe.ch > https://www.list.inf.unibe.ch/listinfo/moose-dev > _______________________________________________ Moose-dev mailing list Moose-dev(a)list.inf.unibe.ch https://www.list.inf.unibe.ch/listinfo/moose-dev

Op 9 mei 2017 om 17:05 heeft Tudor Girba <tudor(a)tudorgirba.com&gt; het volgende geschreven: If I understand correctly: - you used the latest Pharo 6.0 and the stable Pharo VM

- you downloaded the code with: Metacello new baseline: 'Bloc'; repository: 'github://pharo-graphics/Bloc/src'; load:#core And then which examples do not work?

For example, BlBasicExamples>>exampleGeometry should work.

Doru > On May 9, 2017, at 4:59 PM, Stephan Eggermont <stephan(a)stack.nl&gt; wrote: > > Nice! How do I use it? If I load the cairo/morphic version a lot of the examples produce debuggers > > Stephan > > Verstuurd vanaf mijn iPhone > >> Op 9 mei 2017 om 16:11 heeft Ben Coman <btc(a)openinworld.com&gt; het volgende geschreven: >> >> Glad to hear this. Sounds like good times ahead for Bloc. >> cheers -ben >> >> On Tue, May 9, 2017 at 5:00 AM, Tudor Girba <tudor(a)tudorgirba.com&gt; wrote: >> Hi, >> >> We are happy to announce that based on the work of Glenn, Alex extended Bloc (Sparta) to work directly in the Morphic world using Cairo as a backend. >> >> Cairo is less powerful than Moz2D (see the screenshot below for an example), but the implementation addresses a concern that the community raised regarding a perceived increased liability due to the dependency to Moz2D. Essentially this means that Bloc can be treated as another graphical library that can coexist with Morphic without requiring any external VM plugin. >> >> <bloc-two-backends-morphic-host-figures.png> >> >> I would also like to point out that adding a new backend and host was possible because of the many iterations (including throwing away whole implementations) that Alex and Glenn went through. I think they did an amazing job. >> >> You can find a bit more details about Bloc here: >> http://www.humane-assessment.com/blog/bloc-flexible-backends-hosts/ >> >> Another issue raised regarding Bloc was that of the engineering effort required to make it a reality. That is why I would also like to announce that Alex joined feenk.com where he is primarily working on the graphical stack for Pharo. >> >> Cheers, >> Doru >> >> >> -- >> www.tudorgirba.com >> www.feenk.com >> >> "To lead is not to demand things, it is to make them happen." >> >> >> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Moose-dev mailing list >> Moose-dev(a)list.inf.unibe.ch >> https://www.list.inf.unibe.ch/listinfo/moose-dev >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Moose-dev mailing list >> Moose-dev(a)list.inf.unibe.ch >> https://www.list.inf.unibe.ch/listinfo/moose-dev > _______________________________________________ > Moose-dev mailing list > Moose-dev(a)list.inf.unibe.ch > https://www.list.inf.unibe.ch/listinfo/moose-dev -- www.tudorgirba.com www.feenk.com “Software has no shape. Actually, it has no one shape. It has many." _______________________________________________ Moose-dev mailing list Moose-dev(a)list.inf.unibe.ch https://www.list.inf.unibe.ch/listinfo/moose-dev