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

Levente Uzonyi leves at elte.hu
Tue Apr 21 04:25:54 UTC 2015


I see you've fixed those too. I'd still remove the WebClient-HTTP package, 
and add these methods to the Network package.

Levente

On Tue, 21 Apr 2015, Levente Uzonyi wrote:

> 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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