Pier stability (was:Squeak Tutorial for Java Programmers [LinkUpdate] [ANN]

Ramon Leon ramon.leon at allresnet.com
Mon Sep 11 15:32:54 UTC 2006


> 
> What's wrong with it?  It looks pretty good to me so far.

It's just alpha.  Things still change fast enough that occasionally an
upgrade breaks stuff.  Persistence is still very iffy, someone's been doing
work on magma as a backend lately, but it's too new to say how stable that
is.  Security is bare bones, it works, but you'll end up adding and removing
users in a Squeak workspace.  It's fairly easy to break an environment page
and hose a site with invalid html, forcing you to dig up the kernel in a
workspace and try and fix the page you broke.  Works ok if you're a
developer, but if you give it to a user, they'll find a way to break it
rather quick, at least that's been my experience.  Don't get me wrong, I
love Pier, it's going to be my development platform of choice, it's just not
totally ready yet, we need a larger community finding and fixing bugs and
stabilizing it.




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