[Seaside-dev] Current Development Environment Setup

[Tobias Pape]

Hi Philippe
> On 05.09.2018, at 13:41, Philippe Marschall <philippe.marschall at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> On Tue, Sep 4, 2018 at 12:59 PM Johan Brichau <johan at inceptive.be> wrote:
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> On 4 Sep 2018, at 11:54, Philippe Marschall <philippe.marschall at gmail.com> wrote:
>> 
>> Hi
>> 
>> 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
>> 
>> 
>> I’m using 6.1 64-bit (direct downloads) and 7 (via PharoLauncher).
>> 
>> 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
>> 
>> - 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?
>> 
>> 
>> 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.
>> 
>> Should I
>> check out using git and then add the Monticello repositories or should
>> I use Metacello? Should I use Iceberg or rather not?
>> 
>> 
>> 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?

For Squeak deployment metadataless works.
For Squeak development, metadataless won't (currently) work in any version.

Best regards
	-Tobias