what is a deformant design?

is this mainly for single separate users?

can this scale on a server side?

it can be used on the client side

On Thursday, August 13, 2015, David T. Lewis <lewis at mail.msen.com> wrote:

> Cool - congratulations Chris!
>
> Dave
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> > I am pleased to announce version 1.5 of Magma for Squeak 5, now
> > available on SqueakMap.  Magma allows multiple Squeak images to
> > collaborate on a single, large object model, with the robustness and
> > control expected from a database.  It offers the most transparent db
> > access possible for Smalltalk, affording the user the ability to
> > develop complex, performant designs, iteratively, on-the-fly.
> >
> > It has been designed for "continuous flow" development, the way
> > Smalltalkers like and expect to work.  For example, I could have
> > connections open to 3 separate databases, open transactions in any of
> > them, and having restructured a class hierarchy in the model, and
> > stepping through the debugger when that "final boarding call" for my
> > flight is announced.
> >
> > Thanks to the image, this scenario has never been a problem for
> > Smalltalkers and Magma is deliberate to ensure this flow is
> > maintained.  Once at 10K feet, I can resume stepping through that same
> > debugger within 5 seconds of restarting the image, DB connections
> > intact, commit my transactions when I'm ready, done.  Magma handles
> > every aspect of that use-case correctly even in multi-user
> > environments, and has so many safety and integrity features, it is the
> > safest way to develop and keep a model in Squeak.
> >
> > This release coincides with the release of Squeak 5, and has many
> > improvements and fixes over Magma 1.4.  Detailed notes about these
> > improvements are available at http://wiki.squeak.org/squeak/6209.
> >
> >  - Chris
> >
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