[squeak-dev] Upgrading running servers?
Ramon Leon
ramon.leon at allresnet.com
Wed Apr 2 17:34:12 UTC 2008
> Hi -
>
> [Apologies for the cross-post but there may be answers to
> this question coming from people who are subscribed to
> Seaside but not Squeak-dev]
>
> What are the best practices for upgrading portions of your
> running server? I'm not talking about replacing the main
> business logic of your server application but rather
> relatively small things like an improved log module, or an
> administrative report function etc. Basically parts that you
> can assume aren't used while you upgrade them.
>
> I was quite surprised that I wasn't able to find any
> recommendations on how to do that. And I can't imagine that
> this problem hasn't come up in Seaside or other Squeak or
> Smalltalk server deployments. So what do people do in such a
> situation? Fire up VNC and load the latest MC package? Is
> that feasible when you have hundreds of users pounding the
> server? Any other (semi- or fully-) automated variants?
> Alternative recommendations?
>
> Thanks for any insights you can share.
>
> Cheers,
> - Andreas
Not that it's a perfect solution, but here's what I've been doing, it's been
working well and lets me just ftp up the new packages.
http://onsmalltalk.com/programming/smalltalk/upgrading-a-running-squeak-imag
e/
Ramon Leon
http://onsmalltalk.com
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