[Seaside-dev] Current Development Environment Setup

[Philippe Marschall]

On Tue, Sep 4, 2018 at 12:59 PM Johan Brichau <johan at inceptive.be> wrote:
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> On 4 Sep 2018, at 11:54, Philippe Marschall <philippe.marschall at gmail.com> wrote:
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> Hi
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> I'd like to hit the ground running at ESUG and arrive with a working
> development environment for at ESUG. I'd appreciate it if somebody
> could answer me the following questions
> - What is the recommended Pharo Version on macOS X? I'm using
> PharoLauncher to download 6.1 32 bit and ignore the warnings.
> Downloading 6.1 directly results in corrupt files
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> I’m using 6.1 64-bit (direct downloads) and 7 (via PharoLauncher).
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> Pharo 7 version of Seaside is WIP: https://github.com/SeasideSt/Seaside/tree/pharo7
> Also mind that some changes to master have not been added to develop yet: https://github.com/SeasideSt/Seaside/pull/989
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> - How do I checkout the code and load it into the image? My last
> information was that both Grease and Seaside as FileTree repositories,
> and that Grease is metadata-less. Is this still correct?
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> Correct, except that Grease is metadataless only for the Pharo7 package (since I did that with Iceberg).
> Unfortunately, that makes it unloadable in Pharo3-4 as well.
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> Should I
> check out using git and then add the Monticello repositories or should
> I use Metacello? Should I use Iceberg or rather not?
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> Using Iceberg means: metadataless and thus we drop support for a number of platforms.

Thanks for the info, that helps. Do you know which platforms that would be?

Cheers
Philippe