I have been trying for a couple of days to get Magma to install and play nice with Seaside to no avail.

Platform specifics: OS X 10.4.7. Squeak 3.8 full with Seaside installed and confirmed running just fine.

I've installed 0Magma8 from SqueakMap. At least I think I have. But though I've nstalled both the server and the client, when I browse their sources, I find almost all packages are completely empty.

A friend gave me a link that took me to a page on the Ga Tech server minnow about Magma and Seaside. There, I read:

"The Magma repository on SqueakSource includes a package Magma seaside. This package may be installed after installing Magma and Seaside to provide Seaside applications a suggested interface to a Magma repository, and a supplemental panel in Seaside's Configuration utility to point the application to any local or remote Magma repository."

Cool!

So I go to SqueakSource.com where I have a login, log in and do a search for Magma Seaside. No such animal. I try just Magma and a small list appears. Still no Magma Seaside.

Somehow, however, I end up with three .mcz files on my desktop. After a bit of rummaging, I find out these are Monticello packages. OK. Never worked with those before, but I know there's a Monticello browser in the image so I fire it up, point it at those files and load them in order: client, server, seaside. I browse the code and, again, virtually all the packages are empty. Not sure what's going on here, but I proceed anyway.

On the Ga Tech Wiki, I read the page on Magma and there I find the following suggested getting-started code:

MagmaRepositoryController

create: '/Users/dshafer/Desktop/myMagmaFolder'

root: Dictionary new

I type it in, accept it, get the black window of death that tells me it didn't work, and check my desktop. Sure enough, it didn't work.

I'm out of ideas, time and patience. But I'll try to find more of the last two if someone can help me with the first one.

Dan