[Seaside] Re: [ANN] Magma Tutorial

[Keith Hodges]

itsme213 wrote:
> "Keith Hodges" <keith_hodges at yahoo.co.uk> wrote in message 
> news:4763AA8C.6010808 at yahoo.co.uk...
>   
>> I am pleased to announce that by popular demand I have written a Magma
>> tutorial segment to go with:
>>
>> http://www.swa.hpi.uni-potsdam.de/seaside/tutorial  (chapter 8)
>>
>> This tutorial can be found at:
>>
>> http://wiki.squeak.org/squeak/6021
>>     
>
> >From the tutorial:
>    "To install (into a 3.10 based image) ..."
>
> Is this also supposed to load and work with a 3.9 image? I'd love to use 
> this, but am worried 3.10 is not ready yet.
>
> Thanks - Sophie
Both Magma and Seaside work in 3.7 upwards... the limitation is in the
Installer scripts and Universes.
If you use the squeak-dev image you should be ok.

Personally I have been using 3.10 in production for 3 months... on the
basis that nothing of significance has changed between 3.9 and 3.10,
only bug fixes and more testing. To me this means that the number of
bugs remaining in 3.10gamma cant possibly exceed the number of known
bugs in 3.9, if 3.9 was called 3.9.1 (which I think it should be) then
perhaps people wouldn't be so worried about moving to 3.10.

As far as the limitations in build scripts, I have a plan in progress to
make 3.7,3.8,3.9, Croquet, OLPC, and Sophie all up to a level which can
run Installer scripts. This plan is known as "Operation Level Playing
Field"... watch this space.

Keith