[squeak-dev] Adding WebClient and SqueakSSL to Trunk?

Levente Uzonyi leves at elte.hu
Tue Apr 21 04:21:07 UTC 2015


I'm a bit too late here, but I wouldn't have pushed WebClient-HTTP, 
because those are only overrides, and 2 methods do not work from those.

Levente

On Mon, 20 Apr 2015, Tobias Pape wrote:

> Hi,
>
> On 14.04.2015, at 14:18, karl ramberg <karlramberg at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> We should pull these in to trunk as soon as possible so we can get stuff tested before the release of a new image.
>>
>> Can you do that Levente, as you seem most familiar with the changes you made ?
>>
>
> Although I am not levente I went ahead and pushed SqueakSSL and WebClient into
> the trunk. Lets see how it turns out.
>
> Best
> 	-Tobias
>
>> Karl
>>
>> On Mon, Apr 6, 2015 at 9:22 PM, Tobias Pape <Das.Linux at gmx.de> wrote:
>> Hi Levente
>>
>> On 06.04.2015, at 20:43, Levente Uzonyi <leves at elte.hu> wrote:
>>
>>> It would be better for these packages too, because they would get more
>>> attention.
>>> The SqueakSSL/WebClient changes I made in October[1] are still missing from the official repositories.
>>>
>>> Levente
>>>
>>> [1] http://lists.squeakfoundation.org/pipermail/squeak-dev/2014-October/180251.html
>>>
>>
>> I just now saw that there is more than just vm stuff.
>>
>> The problem with WebClient and SqueakSSL as of now is, that
>> its maintenance-ship is, well, complicated. I went forth and
>> pushed tiny changes to WebClient by just being somewhat on
>> my own initiative[1].
>>
>> ===========
>>
>> Dear Squeak Community as a whole and dear Ron as person possibly
>> best fit to make a decision on this:
>>
>>         Should we put the maintainer-ship of WebClient and
>>         SqueakSSL into the hands of the Squeak Core Team?
>>
>>
>> ===========
>>
>> Best
>>         -Tobias
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> [1]: There's a saying, initiative is discipline-lessness with positive outcome
>>
>>> On Mon, 6 Apr 2015, Tobias Pape wrote:
>>>
>>>>
>>>> On 06.04.2015, at 18:59, David T. Lewis <lewis at mail.msen.com> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>>> On Sun, Apr 5, 2015 at 10:26 AM, Marcel Taeumel
>>>>>> <marcel.taeumel at student.hpi.uni-potsdam.de> wrote:
>>>>>>> Hey! :)
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Can we add both to the update map (somehow?) and see if it works out
>>>>>>> during
>>>>>>> the following days/weeks until the release?
>>>>>>
>>>>>> +1
>>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> What is the point of moving these into the base image? Aren't these
>>>>> exactly the kinds of things that you would want to have maintained as
>>>>> independent packages that can be easily loaded from SqueakMap?
>>>>
>>>> I think both these are Extremely Important (capital).
>>>> WebClient as replacement for HTTPSocket (it already provides a compatibility
>>>> layer; Andreas seemed to always considered WebClient to replace HTTPSocket),
>>>> and SqueakSSL because you can't load anything meaningful on the web without
>>>> SSL; github, twitter, most sites. And that's good.
>>>> Plus we _finally_ could put the Plain Text Passwords for Monticello behind
>>>> SSL…
>>>>
>>>> Best
>>>>      -Tobias
>
>
>
>


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