[Seaside] Getting started

[Julian Fitzell]

Tim Mansfield wrote:
> Bruce ONeel wrote:
> 
>>> I was interested in getting started with seaside.  If I go to 
>>> swiki.squeakfoundation.org/sea/60 I'm pointed to 
>>> http://beta4.com/seaside2 for the source.  There if I choose
>>> Tutorial: A Walk on the Seaside I'm asked to download
>>> Comanche as well.  When I go to the link ending in 02May1824
>>> I get a 404.  If I go to the Comanche link and choose Comanche
>>> Downloads I see kom49-... and kom48-..., both of which also
>>> 404.....
> 
> 
> Julian wrote:
> 
>> If you have any recent Squeak image, you should be able to click on 
>> the desktop to get the world menu, then choose Open, and then Package 
>> Loader.  From there you should be able to find Comanche 5.x and 
>> install it by right clicking on the package and choosing Install.
>> You can also install the latest Seaside this way. The tutorial, 
>> unfortunately, is a little out of date at the moment.
> 
> 
> So given that I encountered the same problems getting started, could I 
> suggest a couple of small edits?
> 
> The problem is that the beta4.com site seems like an authoritative 
> source for information, since it's Julian and Avi's site, but since you 
> guys are so busy coding it's not...
> 
> This isn't a big deal as long as it's clear. Do you think there might be 
> some value in adding some text in bold, red or something to this page 
> (http://beta4.com/seaside2/tutorial.html) that says:
> 
> "We've been so busy building seaside, we haven't had time to keep the 
> tutorial up to date. If you have trouble getting started please join the 
> mail list at: http://lists.squeakfoundation.org/listinfo/seaside"
> 
> and then replacing the bullet point:
> 
> "The Comanche webserver for Squeak.    A changeset for version 5.0 is 
> available from 
> http://fce.cc.gatech.edu/~bolot/kom/kom-5-0.02May1824.cs.gz."
> 
> with what you just wrote:
> 
> "If you have any recent Squeak image, you should be able to click on the 
> desktop to get the world menu, then choose Open, and then Package 
> Loader.  From there you should be able to find Comanche 5.x and install 
> it by right clicking on the package and choosing Install."
> 
> Just an idea that might help signpost these well-trod paths a little 
> better :-)

Thanks... you guilted me into it! :)

I've updated the page with a note saying it might be out of date.  I 
also corrected the links in the requirements section and corrected the 
section talking about URLs.  I haven't gone through the rest of it 
looking for problems yet...

Julian

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