[etoys-dev] Status of rebase effort?

[karl ramberg]

I have looked at any porting issues back to Squeak trunk. I would like to
get it started but I have limited time to do much of anything.
To be able to use Cog would be awesome. Also several other enhancements
from Squeak would be nice to have.
Etoys is a big project and to get some upstream relief from Squeak would
help a lot.

Karl



On Tue, Mar 19, 2013 at 12:29 PM, Bert Freudenberg <bert at freudenbergs.de>wrote:

> (why was this marked as spam? weird)
>
> On 2013-03-18, at 23:36, Casey Ransberger <casey.obrien.r at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
> > I know some folks have wanted to be able to rebase Etoys on a more
> recent version of Squeak. I'm curious about how that's going, and what the
> major (technical) obstacles might be, etc.
> >
> > I'm thinking about doing some stuff that I'd like to be able to use in
> both Squeak and Etoys. If there's a rebase on the way sometime within the
> next 365 days, I might be able to avoid duplicating some effort, and that's
> why I'm asking.
> >
> > --
> > Casey Ransberger
>
> The major technical obstacle is being able to load existing projects.
> There are thousands of great Etoys projects out there (a brilliant resource
> is for example the Etoys Illinois library http://etoysillinois.org/ ).
>
> We haven't made a serious effort yet. I started by importing into Trunk
> some classes that were missing, so project loading failed. For some others
> I added a conversion method which would substitute the stored class for a
> different one (see SmartRefStream's '*etoys-projects' protocol).
>
> In a Trunk image, have a look at
> ReleaseBuilderSqueakland>>buildInitialScreen. That tries to load the Home
> project, which is what you see when you start an Etoys image. My idea was
> to build an Etoys image that looks and feels just like the current
> Squeakland one, but from a Trunk image.
>
> If you run that you'll notice an image segment loading error, which I have
> not investigated yet. Many details have changed in Trunk, and image
> segments have largely been ignored while doing these changes. I think it is
> quite possible to make it work, but it is not exactly trivial.
>
> Once the basic loading works, all we have to do is bring over the various
> improvements we did to Etoys since Squeak 3.8, which shouldn't be too hard.
> After all, Etoys scripting is still working fine in Squeak Trunk, it just
> looks outdated and is missing some features.
>
> Also, we can't simply stop working on the stable Etoys release, because we
> do have a large user base that depends on it. Etoys is used all over the
> world, and pre-installed on all OLPC laptops (which shipped more than 2
> million machines).
>
> So there will be more releases from the stable code base (Karl is driving
> that effort), but longer-term it would be much better if we can share man
> power with the larger Squeak community. So any effort you could make in
> that direction would be very welcome :)
>
> - Bert -
>
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