[Seaside] Re: Squeak / Gemstone / VisualWorks with Seaside
itsme213
itsme213 at hotmail.com
Tue Oct 23 00:42:34 UTC 2007
Thank you, Dale, Conrad. I feel at least a little bit safer from a totally
uninformed decision :-)
"Dale Henrichs" <dale.henrichs at gemstone.com> wrote in message
news:471D2362.7070304 at gemstone.com...
> For GemStone/S we are focussed on making life easy for folks developing
> their application in Squeak and deploying in GemStone/S. We support
> Monticello and our development tools are based on the OmniBrowser tool
> set, in fact it is possible to edit code in the GemStone repository using
> a Squeak image and the tools we provide ...
>
> Going from VW to GemStone is not something that we have focussed on ... VW
> does not support Monticello and we (and Squeak) do not support Store -
> passing .st files (or the equivalent) around is not really acceptable
> for ongoing development...managing your code on the target platform and
> getting your changes back into VW becomes problematic if you use
> fileins... I esperienced that when I began porting Seaside from Squeak to
> GemStone and that experience lead to porting Monticello to GemStone.... We
> have a GBS product that makes it somewhat easier to move code between VW
> and GemStone but GBS support is not included in the Free version...
>
> I'm not aware of a slam-dunk solution for developing in VW and deploying
> to Squeak or GemStone. Porting Monticello to VW would be a start, but I
> assume that there are some issues with name spaces that would have to be
> dealt with.
>
> Dale
>
> itsme213 wrote:
>
>>VW appears to be quite polished and robust for development work ... Is any
>>developing a Seaside app with VW to deploy on Squeak or Gemstone/S? How
>>easy is it to keep from getting tied up in platform-specifics, and how
>>hard to port? Does it even make sense to consider this path?
>>
>>Thanks
>>
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