[squeak-dev] Update on source.squeak.org upgrade

David T. Lewis lewis at mail.msen.com
Sat Jan 5 02:40:08 UTC 2019


On Fri, Jan 04, 2019 at 04:42:53PM -0800, Eliot Miranda wrote:
> Hi Chris,
> 
> On Sat, Nov 24, 2018 at 9:03 PM Chris Muller <ma.chris.m at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> > Well, I've been running the latest code and VM every day on my laptop
> > as a Personal Squeaksource server and using it for all of my
> > development these last weeks.
> >
> > It went so smoothly I also decided push on it by downloading the
> > entire squeaksource.com (17GB!) and starting it locally using this
> > same new code, but with different Repository combination more suitable
> > to that application (ImagePersistence + FileSystem).  That exposed a
> > couple of minor bugs which are now fixed and committed to the /ss
> > repository.  I'm going to bang on it one more time but I believe that
> > guy is ready to upgrade too!
> >
> > If you happened to try Personal SqueakSource and have any negative
> > feedback, please let me know soon, otherwise I'll start thinking about
> > upgrading it on the server and kissing the timeouts goodbye.
> >
> 
> Thank you *SO* much!  It has been such a joy not having to deal with
> timeouts any more.  Committing feels slick and reliable.  Great work.
> 

+1000

It is working great now. We'll do a similar update to the squeaksource.com
server RSN to bring it up to date with modern Squeak image and VMs as well.
That will get both services running on the same code base, and should improve
performance and reliability as well. 

Dave



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