Weekly news about Pharo

Hi

We are happy to announce a new release of pillar that supports the use of microdown as format.

Check http://github.com/pillar-markup/pillar

$ git clone https://github.com/pillar-markup/pillar.git
$ cd pillar
$ git checkout v8.2.6
$ chmod a+x ./scripts/build.sh
$ ./scripts/build.sh
$ mkdir mybook
$ cd mybook
$ ../build/pillar archetype microdown-book
$ ../build/pillar build pdf

Et voila 🙂

The Microdowners (Gaylord, Stephane, Kasper and Hernan)

Works is slowing down with summer holidays starting in some parts of the world.

But we managed to merge 8 PRs this week:

Compiler 
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Main change of the weeks is that we now can compile DoIts without a method header
and without the need of code reformatting (without having to add a return). 

– DoIts without method header and reformatting #11463
https://github.com/pharo-project/pharo/pull/11463

– Fix code highlighting for no-header doIts #1296
https://github.com/pharo-spec/Spec/pull/1296

– Fix code highlighting for no-header doIts #400
https://github.com/pharo-spec/NewTools/pull/400

Features
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– Adding possibility to add bindings in debugger context interaction model #378
https://github.com/pharo-spec/NewTools/pull/378

Bug Fixes
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– fixes: problem size of columns when updating inspector (Newtools #395) #1294
https://github.com/pharo-spec/Spec/pull/1294

Cleanup
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– Integer: add missing #subclassResponsibility #11471
https://github.com/pharo-project/pharo/pull/11471

– tag AbstractBinaryFileStream as abstract #11472
https://github.com/pharo-project/pharo/pull/11472

– Deprecate-theMetaClass-theNonMetaClass #11467
https://github.com/pharo-project/pharo/pull/11467

Hi

Since a couple of years the Pharo crew has been working on the Pharo-vm and most of the communication was using internal channels.

Now that the community is growing we believe that it is important to have a public way to communicate around the VM and our current and future developments.

We are happy to announce that we set up a mailing-list for the Pharo-vm.

https://lists.pharo.org/list/pharo-vm.lists.pharo.org

Stef on the behalf of the Pharo lille crew.