[squeak-dev] Context status 2015-01-16

Chris Muller asqueaker at gmail.com
Fri Jan 16 22:47:30 UTC 2015


That sounds awesome Craig, congratulations.  If you ever do a video of
a reasonably-sized imprinting experiment onto your core-classes image
from a modern Squeak image, I will be very interested to see it!

On Fri, Jan 16, 2015 at 2:01 PM, Craig Latta <craig at netjam.org> wrote:
>
> Hoi all--
>
>      Context[1] is the umbrella project for Naiad (a distributed module
> system for all Smalltalks[2]), Spoon (a minimal object memory that
> provides the starting point for Naiad), and Lightning (a
> remote-messaging framework which performs live serialization, used by
> Naiad for moving methods and other objects between systems). I intend
> for it to be a future release of Squeak, and a launcher and module
> system for all the other Smalltalks. I'm writing Context apps for cloud
> computing, web services, and distributed computation.
>
>      Commits b7676ba2cc and later of the Context git repo[3] have:
>
> -    Support for installable object memories as git submodule repos.
>
> -    Submodule repos for memories for each of the known Smalltalk
>      dialects, with Naiad support pre-loaded. I'm currently working on
>      the submodules for Squeak[4] and Pharo[5].
>
> -    A web-browser-based console for launching and managing object
>      memories.
>
> -    A WebDAV-based virtual filesystem that enables Smalltalk to appear
>      as a network-attached storage device, and mappings of the system
>      to that filesystem that make Smalltalk accessible from external
>      text editors (e.g., for editing code, managing processes and
>      object memories).
>
> -    Remote code and process browsers.
>
>      Live discussion at [6]. Mailing list at [7]. The newsgroup is
> gmane.comp.lang.smalltalk.squeak.context.
>
>
>      Thanks for checking it out!
>
> -C
>
> [1] http://thiscontext.com
> [2] http://thiscontext.com/a-detailed-naiad-description
> [3] https://github.com/ccrraaiigg/context
> [4] https://github.com/ccrraaiigg/3EAD9A45-F65F-445F-89C1-4CA0A9D5C2F8
> [5] https://github.com/ccrraaiigg/CFE10A14-D883-4ACE-990A-0DDA86AA362B
> [6] http://squeak.slack.com
> [7] mailto:context at lists.squeakfoundation.org
>
> --
> Craig Latta
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>
>


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