[Seaside-dev] Re: preliminary Seaside 2.9 alpha universe

[Philippe Marschall]

2008/9/24 Philippe Marschall <philippe.marschall at gmail.com>:
> Hi
>
> Seaside 2.9 was always hard to load. We always said that we would fix
> this and this is a preview of what we expect the solution to look
> like.
>
> After some evaluation of what is available in Squeak we had only two
> options, either start from scratch or use universes [1]. We decided to
> give universes a shot. Universes is something like a debian
> distribution universe for squeak.
>
> So how do you load this stuff:
>  1. get Universes, if you don't already have it (3.10)
>  1.1 get an XML parser [2]
>  1.2 get universes [3]
>  1.3 optionally the the OB universe browser [4]
>  2. save the *.packages to your image directory
>  3. load the attached .mcz
>  4. evaluate UUniverse switchSystemToUniverse: UUniverse seasideAndServers
>  5. in the world menu open a "Universe Browser" either basic or enhanced
>  6. "update list from network"
>  7. choose a distribution
>  8. choose a server
>
> There are still some unsolved issues like the naming of alpha an beta
> versions. We probably want website integration as well. One possible
> change would be to move the tests to a separate tests category.
>
>  [1] http://wiki.squeak.org/squeak/3785
>  [2] http://www.squeaksource.com/universes.html
>  [3] http://www.squeaksource.com/XMLSupport.html
>  [4] http://www.squeaksource.com/OBUniverse.html
>
> Cheers
> Philippe
>

For real releases we plan to put the actual files in the SVN of you
google code account so they can be downloaded over the web. We'll also
ask the universes team whether they could include the Seaside universe
as a well known mixin universe.

Cheers
Philippe