Final day trip report from Smalltalk Solutions 2001 posted.

John M McIntosh johnmci at smalltalkconsulting.com
Fri Apr 13 05:46:36 UTC 2001


At 11:23 PM -0400 4/12/01, Mark Guzdial wrote:
>In response to: "NEED A STABLE SWIKI!"
>
>>We have a PO# and our Linux replacement for Minnow should be here 
>>inside of two weeks.

Most likely once the BSD socket replacement layer gets off the ground 
I'll look at rewriting the mac socket primitives for OS 9 with more 
of an eye to making it easier to debug. The current solution although 
as far as I know is trouble free for light loads, and for loads that 
I can generate in my lab, it as everyone sees breaks under heavy load 
conditions. Unfortunately because most of the error logic is in C, 
and or the failure condition occurs there, we've been unable to 
figure out exactly what causes the swiki to crash. Replacing them 
with a unix solution is best overall since mac os 9 isn't a server 
platform.

>And a question: John, from your report, it sounds like the "Squeak 
>Foundation" was only suggested in the talk from Dave Thomas, not 
>that he (or anyone else) is actually DOING this.  Was that your 
>sense, or did I read too much into your notes?

It was only suggested we do this, he is NOT doing it. It is up to us 
to do!!!!! He said he would supply $$$. But WE MUST find the people 
who will do it. Now some people get hung up dealing with the 
organization details. David's response to this was just to seize the 
apache model and run with it, why reinvent the wheel.

Wed night there was an individual or two reflect on this issue and 
deciding what to do. But alas I didn't see anyone seize the 
opportunity with vigor, it is a lot work (reflecting on it too).
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