[squeak-dev] Community Supported Packages

Chris Cunnington brasspen at gmail.com
Mon Dec 15 13:32:08 UTC 2014


OK, let’s leave community supported packages for later. I’l make a page for Seaside today. 

Chris 
> On Dec 13, 2014, at 6:44 PM, David T. Lewis <lewis at mail.msen.com> wrote:
> 
> On Sat, Dec 13, 2014 at 11:58:15AM -0500, Chris Cunnington wrote:
>> Thinking about Seaside installation and pages on the homepage, I started to think about putting a Seaside installation script in SqueakMap. [1] (This script loads with no server, I don???t think, so I figure it???s incomplete. Does anybody have a more complete one?) 
>> Maybe I???d create two new pages: Seaside; and, Installation. (That URI - Installation - is from the old site). And then add links to SqueakMap and SqueakSource on that page. 
>> But then it made me think I???d have to find out who the Seaside maintainers are to ask them to put in a new script. But Seaside should be what we were calling a few years ago a Community Supported Package. Is it a CSM in SqueakMap? How does that work? 
>> It seems to me that creating a Seaside page and slapping a Metacello installation script on it is a short sighted solution. Perhaps the notion of a CSM could be explored at this juncture. 
>> 
>> Chris 
>> [1] 
>> (Installer ss project: 'MetacelloRepository') install: 'ConfigurationOfSeaside3'.
>> ((ConfigurationOfSeaside3 project) version: #stable) load.
> 
> 
> I think that Tobias Pape and Stephan Eggermont have given a good starting
> point. I tried the Metacello configuration, and that works fine. If I want
> to get started on Seaside (which in fact I do), I would want to start first
> with Tobias' latest prepared image, even if it's not updated to the latest
> trunk level.
> 
> If we can get the squeak.org site to point to the information that Tobias
> and Stephan provide, that's probably the most important thing to do right
> now.
> 
> I like your idea of getting the SqueakMap entry updated, although I'd be
> inclined to follow up on that issue later. How about January 1 as a new
> years resolution? Dang, we have a lot of outdated entries on SqueakMap,
> we really need to clean that up.
> 
> New Seaside users are going to start at the Seaside home page, so we want
> to make sure that the download link for "Squeak Smalltalk" points to the
> information that Tobias and Stephan have provided. Right now it is pointing
> to "404 Not Found" which is not exactly the message that we want to be
> sending to the world.
> 
> If I could start at the seaside.st home page and follow the download link
> for Squeak to find the Metacello configuration that Stephan provided, and
> the prepared image that Todias provides, I would be a happy camper :-)
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Dave
> 
> 



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