Hi Magnus,
I am interested on this issue but as I have no previous experience on porting something that should be maintained at both ends, and I am pretty ignorant on web issues; I just started to use it on VW for a while.
But I'll be glad to help.
The "ifNotNil: [:p | p doSomething] should have no parameters" is a known issue, discussed several times on the squeak list, let me search a bit.
I think that SmaCC works ok on squeak. It shouldn't be any problem using the Squeak Smacc port. The underscore char is used instead of := , so is an illegal char at the beginning of a method. But I think there is a configurable preference on this.
I am cross posting to the squeak list, may be more help is available there.
Looking the way the seaside packages are maintained for inter-dialect portability may be a good idea.
Cheers.
Emilio
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On 11/12/08, Magnus Schwarz magnus@heeg.de wrote:
As nobody from the Squeak community did it by now and Gerhard Obermann "complained" ;) that there is no Monticello version of seaBreeze I decided to give it a try and port seaBreeze to Squeak.
Main Problem was/is that I am used to work with Visualworks and Squeak is somewhat different ;)
I managed to load a lot of stuff into a Pier one-click image (decided to use this because it should have the Seaside stuff already loaded) but ran into some obstacles where an experienced Squeaker might help me:
- I had many methods using "ifNotNil: [:p | p doSomething]" where Squeak
complained that the block should have no parameters - I changed the implementation in Squeak so that it should work but it still complained (and did not compile)
- The CSSParser was built with SmaCC which generates lots of methods
with underscores in it; now Squeak complains about the underscores but I do not really understand what the problem is
Biggest problem seemed to be the use of SXOR - we might make porting much easier by deciding to drop this and use LiteralArrays (or whatever) in seaBreeze ...
Magnus
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