Hi Dan,
1) A swiki would be a nice place to start, but if you haven't looked into it yet, you really owe it to yourself to spend a bit of time with Seaside. There is some good documentation starting at http://seaside.org, and a couple of hours downloading it and tinkering with the demos is time well spent. It's really a nice piece of work.
2) Squeak 3.8 is probably a comfortable choice.
3) Two separate copies are probably what you'll want, but to get started just use one. You can access the "server application" through a web browser, and just use the normal Squeak display to tinker with the server. There are various ways to connect to the image when it's running as a headless server, depending in part on what OS you prefer to use. Ian's VNC server seems to be popular, and there is a web-accessible Squeak brower included with the Seaside demos that you will probably find interesting.
Dave
On Mon, Jun 26, 2006 at 05:58:10PM -0700, Dan Ingalls wrote:
Folks -
I've never run a server in Squeak (or anything else for that matter (of course)). I thought it would be easiest to start with a Swiki, get it going, understand it, and then subvert it to the real purpose I have in mind.
Can someone please...
Point me at good documentation.
Suggest which Squeak release would the best combination of being
relatively up to date, and yet having the least bit rot (if there is any) in the server code.
- (If it isn't obvious from (1)) Hum a few bars about how you can
run the server on the same machine as you use it from, either in the same Squeak, or in two separate copies.
Thanks much in advance
- Dan