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

Philippe Marschall philippe.marschall at gmail.com
Sat Sep 27 20:28:41 UTC 2008


Uhm guys, nobody of you actually did try this, right?

I'll post a working one later today or early tomorrow. ;-)

Cheers
Philippe

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
>


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