Magma-Seaside Setup/Install Problem

[Dan Shafer]

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


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