How to load Magma into Pharo 1.2?

[Marco A. Gonzalez]

Miguel,

Thanks for your quick response. The ConfigurationOfMagma way was very nice to use when I originally did it with a previous version. Looking forward to seeing it again but in the meantime, I followed Chris' advice and proceeded past the FlapTab warning and successfully installed.

- Marco A.

On Feb 9, 2011, at 12:47 PM, Miguel Cobá wrote:

> Hi, I am a little busy right now and haven't had enough time to update
> the ConfigurationOfMagma to use the new symbolic versions and to test it
> against the 1.2 core image (there are a lot of changes) to see if loads
> cleanly.
> 
> I will return with an answer/solution in a couple days.
> Meanwhile, as Chris said, just pass the FlapTab warning as it has no
> effect on everyday usage of Magma.
> 
> Cheers
> 
> El lun, 07-02-2011 a las 12:52 -0500, Marco A. Gonzalez escribió:
>> Hi,
>> What is the currently recommended way to load Magma into Pharo 1.2?
>> 
>> (Still learning in an attempt to move from Java and relational databases to Smalltalk)
>> 
>> What I tried from a fresh install of Pharo 1.2RC2 from 
>> * instructions in the "Installing external projects" window displayed by evaluating "DEVImageWorkspaces openExternalProjectWorkspace" from the "Welcome to Pharo" window leads to a dependency problem with FlapTab. (I saw some posts relating to this that indicate that Miguel Coba knows about this)
>> 
>> * instructions from Miguel Coba at http://www.mail-archive.com/pharo-project@lists.gforge.inria.fr/msg31841.html (September posting) lead to the following error: 
>> 	The method SmalltalkImage osVersion has been deprecated. Use OSPlatform
>> 
>> * instructions from Miguel Coba but replacing MetaRepoForPharo11 with MetaRepoForPharo12 leads to the following error:
>> 	The method SmalltalkImage osVersion has been deprecated. Use OSPlatform
>> 
>> * instructions "Installing Magma" found on http://wiki.squeak.org/squeak/2657 (I used 1.1r1, 1.2alpha1 following the "you should see "r42Final" or a later version") lead to the following error:
>> 	This package depends on the following classes:	FlapTab
>> 
>> - Marco A.
>> 
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