Finally! A description of the default Spoon workflow.
Well, it took a while to evolve into clarity, but here it is…
You get Spoon by downloading a ZIP file from the net. You install Spoon by unzipping the ZIP file and putting the resulting all-in-one app folder where you want it to be. You start Spoon with a simple platform-dependent gesture (on Mac, you double-click the app).
This starts a history memory. This memory can…
- …speak with web browsers. It presents a simple control interface for starting and stopping the other memories in the app (called “subject memories”), and discovering other memories on the net.
- …speak with FTEs (Favorite Text Editors). It presents itself as a filesystem via a WebDAV server, so that a person can use their Favorite Text Editor to control the subject memories, edit classes and methods, and evaluate expressions.
- …speak with the subject memories, to keep track of their development changes.
- …speak with remote memories, to obtain their modules.
This is available in Spoon 3 alpha 5, which I plan to release in time for the Camp Smalltalk event in Gent, Belgium on 24 August 2012, ahead of the European Smalltalk Users Group conference the next week.
22 August 2012 at 3:44 pm
Very great. Now, when can I get a copy for testing purposes and to start making videos?
22 August 2012 at 4:11 pm
When it works! :)
22 August 2012 at 9:43 pm
Starting Spoon gives you kind of Smalltalk system you can interact with using web browsers and text editors?
22 August 2012 at 9:52 pm
Yes, I want people to be able to control Spoon using familiar tools.
23 August 2012 at 5:29 pm
Great. Spoon is based on Squeak or Pharo, or you’ve moved beyond that?
23 August 2012 at 5:33 pm
The first incarnation came from Squeak, but I am working on versions of it for all the other Smalltalks now, too. Thanks!