[squeak-dev] Adding WebClient and SqueakSSL to Trunk?

Levente Uzonyi leves at elte.hu
Mon Apr 6 18:43:12 UTC 2015


It would be better for these packages too, because they would get more
attention.
The SqueakSSL/WebClient changes I made in October[1] are still missing 
from the official repositories.

Levente

[1] http://lists.squeakfoundation.org/pipermail/squeak-dev/2014-October/180251.html

On Mon, 6 Apr 2015, Tobias Pape wrote:

>
> On 06.04.2015, at 18:59, David T. Lewis <lewis at mail.msen.com> wrote:
>
>>> On Sun, Apr 5, 2015 at 10:26 AM, Marcel Taeumel
>>> <marcel.taeumel at student.hpi.uni-potsdam.de> wrote:
>>>> Hey! :)
>>>>
>>>> Can we add both to the update map (somehow?) and see if it works out
>>>> during
>>>> the following days/weeks until the release?
>>>
>>> +1
>>>
>>
>> What is the point of moving these into the base image? Aren't these
>> exactly the kinds of things that you would want to have maintained as
>> independent packages that can be easily loaded from SqueakMap?
>
> I think both these are Extremely Important (capital).
> WebClient as replacement for HTTPSocket (it already provides a compatibility
> layer; Andreas seemed to always considered WebClient to replace HTTPSocket),
> and SqueakSSL because you can't load anything meaningful on the web without
> SSL; github, twitter, most sites. And that's good.
> Plus we _finally_ could put the Plain Text Passwords for Monticello behind
> SSL…
>
> Best
> 	-Tobias
>


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