[Seaside] VAST Seaside Challenge

[Nevin Pratt]

I think it is important that the Seaside community be aware of this.  
Eric Clayberg posted the following in the VAST newsgroup:

>Seaside is a framework for developing sophisticated web applications in 
>Smalltalk.
>
>    http://seaside.st/
>
>Many folks consider it to be the killer app for Smalltalk, much like Ruby on 
>Rails is for Ruby.
>
>Currently, Seaside is available for Squeak and VisualWorks. It has not been 
>ported to other dialects such as VAST. We would like to see it ported to 
>VAST. To that end, we are issuing a challenge to the VAST user community to 
>port Seaside to VAST. To make it worth your while, we are offering a reward 
>of a full license to VAST and all of our add-on products (a $9,595 value) to 
>the first *five* people who successfully and independently port Seaside to 
>VAST (we want to make sure that anyone who gets it working is rewarded, not 
>just the first to finish).
>
>The Seaside web site states that "Many Smalltalk VMs do not support the 
>stack-copying techniques Seaside uses to implement backtracking". According 
>to the site, this includes VAST. Assuming that this is true, you may need to 
>be creative and come up with slightly different implementations based on 
>what VAST can do. The most important criteria is that the public API 
>surfaced by Seaside works as specified. Tutorial examples should also work 
>unmodified.
>
>    http://seaside.st/Tutorial/
>
>-Eric Clayberg
> Sr. Vice President of Product Development
> Instantiations, Inc.
> mailto:clayberg at instantiations.com
> http://www.instantiations.com/vast 
>

I responded to his post thus:

> Or modify VAST to support the continuations that Seaside requires.  
> Then it would be a fairly straight-forward port.
>
> Otherwise.... good luck!
>
> Nevin 


And his response was then:

>Any approach is on the table as long as it works in the end. Modifying the 
>base in a backward compatible manner is fine with me. We can roll any base 
>changes into the next maintenance build.
>
>-Eric Clayberg
> Sr. Vice President of Product Development
> Instantiations, Inc.
> mailto:clayberg at instantiations.com
> http://www.instantiations.com/vast 
>


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