Hi John,

On Mon, Nov 17, 2014 at 09:42:37PM -0500, John McKeon wrote:
> Hello Dave,
> If you have no other takers, I am willing to do it.
> I have worked with Seaside since 2.8 and Squeak since 3.10
> I'd be happy to be able to contribute something of value back to the Squeak
> community.

John,

Excellent! Thank you so much. Please do take the lead on this.

I'll try to help you as much as I can. I have some experience with
platform specific issues based on my earlier work with OSProcess, and
that may be of some value.

Tobias Pape (CC) has done a good deal of work preparing Squeak Seaside
images, and I am sure that he will be happy to have some help from
you (and me I hope) to improve Seaside on Squeak.

Thanks,

Dave


> 
> On Fri, Nov 14, 2014 at 10:04 AM, David T. Lewis <lewis at mail.msen.com>
> wrote:
> 
> > On Thu, Nov 13, 2014 at 10:43:48AM +0100, Philippe Marschall wrote:
> > > On Thu, Nov 13, 2014 at 3:49 AM, David T. Lewis <lewis at mail.msen.com>
> > wrote:
> > > > On Tue, Nov 11, 2014 at 08:11:33AM +0100, Johan Brichau wrote:
> > > >> Hi David,
> > > >>
> > > >> > On 11 Nov 2014, at 01:44, David T. Lewis <lewis at mail.msen.com>
> > wrote:
> > > >> >
> > > >> > Is there a Metacello configuration for Seaside that I should be
> > using to get
> > > >> > me closer to the correct configuration?
> > > >>
> > > >> Looks like Paul gave you the necessary instructions. Mind that the
> > failing tests are in latest version of Grease, which is loaded for Seaside
> > 3.1.x (stable) and Seaside 3.2.0 (which is in development).
> > > >> Btw, the Metacello instructions are also mentioned on
> > http://seaside.st/download/pharo <http://seaside.st/download/pharo>
> > > >>
> > > >> Let me know if you need any help.
> > > >
> > > > Hi Johan,
> > > >
> > > > I am able to load Grease and Seaside 3.2.0 from the Metacello
> > configurations,
> > > > which work very well. There is one glitch in loading Seaside, because
> > > > WASecureKeyGenerator class>>canSeed tries to use GRPharoPlaform
> > subclass,
> > > > does not exist. But that seems to be related to the same issue that is
> > > > causing the original unit test failures that you are asking about.
> > >
> > > That should probably not be. I'll have a look.
> > >
> > > > The failures in WAExternalFileLibraryTest are related to GRPlatform.
> > > > GRPlatform is providing a range of compatibility methods that are
> > > > vectored through its concrete subclasses, which appear to include
> > > > implementations for the various flavors of Pharo, as well as for a
> > > > number of versions of Gemstone.
> > > >
> > > > I do not see any implementation of GRPlatform for Squeak. Presumably
> > > > this might be a class called GRSqueakPlatform, but I cannot find this
> > > > in any of the repositories, and the "GRPlatform current" idiom does
> > > > not answer anything appropriate for generic Squeak.
> > > >
> > > > Hopefully I am just confused (by far the most likely explanation), but
> > > > it seems that either I am not loading the right packages, or (worse)
> > > > I am trying to "debug" software that nobody has gotten around to
> > writing
> > > > yet.
> > > >
> > > > Are these Travis CI failures actual failures, in the sense that they
> > > > are tests that used to work, but now are failing due to some new
> > > > problem? Or are they just an indication that GRSqueakPlatform does
> > > > not exist, and we need to find someone to implement it?
> > >
> > > Right GRSqueakPlatform does not exist. The clean solution would be to
> > > create a Grease-Squeak-Core and Grease-Tests-Squeak-Core with a
> > > GRSqueakPlatform and the necessary class extension methods. That would
> > > be very welcome.
> > > Because we don't have the resources to do this we currently treat
> > > Squeak as similar to Pharo 1.2 (or something) and load a
> > > GRPharoPlaform class and some class extensions. If the load scripts
> > > have a bug they don't even do that and you just GRPlatform with no
> > > subclass.
> >
> > Squeak-dev:
> >
> > We need a volunteer to implement a Squeak-specific compatibility
> > class in Grease for Seaside, as described by Philippe above. Is
> > there someone who might be interested in implementing the missing
> > GRSqueakPlatform support?
> >
> > Most likely, the implementation could be modeled after the existing
> > Grease support for Pharo 1.2. Pharo 1.2 was basically the same as
> > Squeak 3.9, and the Squeak development stream is generally quite
> > good about maintaining compatibility of interfaces required by
> > external packages. I expect that this would not be a large project,
> > and it would be of great value for the Squeak community as well as
> > for Seaside.
> >
> > Thanks!
> >
> > Dave
> >
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