[ANN] Magma release 42

Thu Aug 20 22:46:13 UTC 2009

Great !
Thanks for your work Chris !
Cheers

r.

2009/8/20 Miguel Enrique Cobá Martinez <miguel.coba at gmail.com>

El jue, 20-08-2009 a las 13:54 -0500, Chris Muller escribió:
> > I am pleased to announce a new release of Magma.  Release 42 brings
> > unprecedented scale and availability of persistent domain models to
> > Squeak users.  In particular, a single logical repository can now be
> > served from multiple servers simultaneously, each hosting their own
> > physical copy.  To maintain consistency, just one server receives
> > writes and broacasts commit-records to "warm-backup" servers
> > asynchronously.  The warm-backups ensure to keep themselves constantly
> > up to date automatically.
> >
> > Individual servers in the "Node", even the primary, can be brought
> > off-line and back on-line without disruption to clients.  Maintenance
> > routines such as full-backup and compression may optionally be run
> > while a repository is off-line, resulting in true 24x7 operation with
> > no performance degradation due to maintenance jobs.  The more physical
> > copies of a repository that are brought on-line, the more read-scale
> > the overall Node will provide.  For more details, see:
> >
> >   http://wiki.squeak.org/squeak/6101
> >
> > Scales up as well as down:  Magma retains it's existing ability to
> > scale an existing, large, multi-user repository _down_ to a single
> > user on a single laptop easily, without a single change to application
> > code.  This can be very useful for diagnosing production issues
> > without disturbing production.
> >
> > 42 one-click loads cleanly into 3.9, 3.10 and Pharo, and is supported
> > on those images.
> >
>
> Pharo!
>
> I have to say thank you very much Chris, for the effort that you and
> Stuart have done. I am surprised that the release 42 already has support
> for Pharo, I thought we would have to wait for the next version.
>
> In this moment am downloading it and testing my app with it.
>
> What a great news!
>
> Cheers
>
> > For now, the Magma home page still resides at:
> >
> >   http://wiki.squeak.org/squeak/2665
> >
> >  - Chris
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