[squeak-dev] Xtreams : first embryonary port on Squeak

Nicolas Cellier nicolas.cellier.aka.nice at gmail.com
Mon Oct 11 19:07:35 UTC 2010


done

2010/10/11 Hannes Hirzel <hannes.hirzel at gmail.com>:
> Thank you Julian for the clarification.
>
> Yes, -- using a slight variation and having two projects in the same
> repository is confusing.
>
> And -- having Xtreams (is this the correct name?) for Squeak is exciting!
>
> --Hannes
>
> On 10/11/10, Julian Fitzell <jfitzell at gmail.com> wrote:
>> I wasn't suggesting forking (I had another post in this thread talking
>> about Grease).
>>
>> But even Seaside exists both in SqueakSource and in the Cincom Public
>> Store. I was merely asking if the the appropriate project name
>> couldn't be used in SqueakSource. Using a slight variation (and having
>> two projects in the one repo) is just confusing.
>>
>> Julian
>>
>> On Mon, Oct 11, 2010 at 12:29 PM, Hannes Hirzel <hannes.hirzel at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>>> I think it should go the way Seaside is handled. Something like
>>> 'Grease' and 'Sport' *** on top of Squeak and the go to the original
>>> code base. Not a fork of the code for the library.
>>>
>>> Maybe Grease and Sport are good enough to have compatibility?
>>>
>>> --Hannes
>>>
>>>
>>> Sport and Grease cover different areas with their portability APIs.
>>> Sport covers Sockets, Files, Time, Exception handling and utilities
>>> such as being able to explicitly test in which Smalltalk dialect code
>>> is being run in. Grease covers utilities for parsing, printing,
>>> encoding & decoding strings, delayed sends, common exceptions,
>>> utilities such as secure hash. There is some overlap, but not much.
>>> For example, Seaside expects the underlying HTTP server to deal with
>>> socket issues so Grease does not deal with sockets. Sport in turn does
>>> not have the extensive parsing and printing facilities found in
>>> Grease.
>>>
>>> On 10/11/10, Julian Fitzell <jfitzell at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>> This still seems confusing. Could we just have a new SqueakSource
>>>> project called "Xtreams" (small T + an S)? It's not like projects are
>>>> expensive to create...
>>>>
>>>> Julian
>>>>
>>>> On Sat, Oct 9, 2010 at 11:33 PM, Nicolas Cellier
>>>> <nicolas.cellier.aka.nice at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>> So, I started a quick port of VW Xtreams to Squeak this evening.
>>>>> Only the Xtreams-Core and the trivial Xtreams-Terminals (no
>>>>> file/pipe/socket/pointer).
>>>>> You'll find code at http://www.squeaksource.com/XTream.
>>>>> My previous experimental Xtream project has been renamed SqueaXTream
>>>>> to reduce confusion, but still sits in the same project.
>>>>> Please find my report below.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>
>>>
>>
>>
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