Location of 2.8 sources?

Bert Freudenberg bert at isgnw.CS.Uni-Magdeburg.De
Thu May 18 08:13:35 UTC 2000


On Wed, 17 May 2000, Ned Konz wrote:

> I was going to re-compile the WinCE version, as I've been having some
> problems with it. I have the 2.7 stuff already, as well as the sources
> for the WinCE.

If you got these from
	http://wwwisg.CS.Uni-Magdeburg.De/~raab/squeak/
or
	ftp://ftp.CS.Uni-Magdeburg.De/pub/Smalltalk/free/squeak/win32/
that should be all you need. AFAIK the info at squeak.org is not really
up-to-date. I can't speak for WinCE, but for Unix we don't need GNU make
anymore ...

> I kept seeing patches, etc. coming from Dan and others. I assumed that
> there was some central place (perhaps a CVS archive, swiki, or
> similar) where such patches lived.

We have to distinguish here: 

1. Changesets sent from list members, prefixed with [FIX] or [ENH] are
   archived at http://swiki.gsug.org/sqfixes
   Some of them are blessed to make it into the official sources and put
   into the update directory by Squeak Central. You can retrieve these by
   the menu option "update code from server"
   Changesets deal only with Smalltalk code (which includes the VM
   kernel that is translated from Smalltalk to C).

2. The platform C support code is currently maintained by each "main
   platform developer": Andreas Raab for Windows, Ian Piumarta for Unix,
   Squeak Central (John Maloney?) for Mac. We're going to move that stuff
   to the CVS at http://squeak.sourceforge.net/ in the next future.

> I am a beginner to Squeak, but am fairly familiar with Smalltalk, having
> programmed industrial control systems in Smalltalk for about 5 years.
> Haven't touched databases, though (many Smalltalkers seem to do database
> work).

Sad but true. They can't even imagine what to do with Smalltalk other then
database front ends and transaction servers. If they only knew how much
fun Squeak is ;-)

-- Bert





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