[squeak-dev] Celeste email client in Squeak 4.4

H. Hirzel hannes.hirzel at gmail.com
Fri Oct 5 15:43:24 UTC 2012


Edgar mentions in the other thread that Google mail does not work and
that we might get the missing code from Zinc. Would it be possible to
give some elaborations on that?

--Hannes

On 10/5/12, Chris Muller <asqueaker at gmail.com> wrote:
> Oops, I just saw Edgar's note.
>
> On Fri, Oct 5, 2012 at 9:54 AM, Chris Muller <ma.chris.m at gmail.com> wrote:
>> I don't have any reasons other than intuition.  Just thinking about it
>> -- with Celeste we have a standard window, a domain model and access
>> to SMTP.  Which of these would be difficult in 4.4?  Nothing comes to
>> mind.
>>
>>
>> On Fri, Oct 5, 2012 at 6:10 AM, H. Hirzel <hannes.hirzel at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>>> On 10/5/12, Chris Muller <asqueaker at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>> Celeste was always a cool example and it sounds like it wouldn't be
>>>> much to get it going in 4.4.  I hope someone will do it.
>>>
>>> Chris,
>>>
>>> what are the reasons why you thing that porting wouldn't be a big issue.
>>>
>>> Because it relies on libraries which did not change much from 4.1 to
>>> 4.4?
>>>
>>> Do you remember what it needs as prerequisite?
>>>
>>> --Hannes
>>>
>>>> On Thu, Oct 4, 2012 at 9:40 AM, Jecel Assumpcao Jr.
>>>> <jecel at merlintec.com>
>>>> wrote:
>>>>> Hannes,
>>>>>
>>>>>> Do you have Celeste in 4.4? How did you load it?
>>>>>
>>>>> I am typing this in a 4.1 image (latest update #9957). It has been a
>>>>> long time since I loaded Celeste into this image. For the previous
>>>>> images I had always used SqueakMap, but for this one it seems I used
>>>>> the
>>>>> Monticello Browser to load packages Network-ar.69, Scamper-kfr.12 and
>>>>> Network-Mail Reader-ls.21 from http://www.squeaksource.com/Celeste and
>>>>> http://www.squeaksource.com/Scamper but I might be interpreting the
>>>>> Monticello Browser gui wrong.
>>>>>
>>>>> There are some small patches that I have written myself, but they are
>>>>> horrible hacks just to deal with very broken emails I have received.
>>>>> They are always spam, so I have not wasted my time doing it right.
>>>>>
>>>>> -- Jecel
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>
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