[Seaside] [Q] Any documentation of guide for porting seaside to other Smalltalk system?

[Dale Henrichs]

I forgot to mention that if you got the FastCGI route, you'll end up 
using Apache as your HTTP server...

Dale

Dale Henrichs wrote:

> Sungjin,
>
> I don't know of any porting documentation, but here is a rough outline
> of how to go about doing the port:
>
>
>
> 1.    As Luka suggests, take a look at the Continuation class and get
> the unit tests to run in GNU smalltalk. Getting Contuations working may
> or may not be a big challenge. At Gemstone, we ended up making mods to
> the vm to get continuations to work.
> 2.    Once you've got continuations in hand, take a look at
> PackageInfo-Exporters. There's a version on SqueakSource (part of
> Seaside project) that is a good starting point. Write a GNU smalltalk
> exporter that will allow you to file out the Seaside package (all
> classes and extension methods for Seaside) in a form acceptable to GNU
> smalltalk.
>
> 3.    File the result into your GNU smalltalk image and resolve the
> filein issues.
> 4.    Run the Seaside unit tests.
> 5.    Now you'll need some sort of HTTP server. We are using
> Swazoo/Hyper. You'll need to write some glue code between Seaside and
> your HTTP server. We used Michel Bany's VW glue code as an example. We
> can provide our code as well. Basically the glue code transforms the
> requests and responses from your HTTP server into Seaside requests and
> responses.
>
> 6.    If GNU smalltalk doesn't have a HTTP server , you might try
> porting the FastCGI code from Squeak to GNU smalltalk. We just recently
> ported FastCGI to Gemstone so we can give you some pointers here. If you
> don't have a HTTP server in GNU smalltalk this is a very good option -
> you simply transform the FastCGI request/responses directly into Seaside
> request/responses.
> 7.    At this point you should be able to begin serving seaside web
> pages. Bring up the WAAllTests application (you'll need to initiale it
> first) and start poking around.
>
> This should be enough to get you started. Good luck!
>
> Dale
>
> Sungjin Chun wrote:
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> Hi,
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> I want to port seaside to GNU smalltalk - I'm not sure whether this is
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> possible or not. My primary objective is to learn network programming in
>
> smalltak, both squeak and gnu smalltalk(gst).
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> Is there any guide/documentation for this?
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> Thanks in advance.
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