[Glass] Introducing GsDevKit: an Open Source Development Kit for GemStone/S

[Dale Henrichs]

Just this morning I have seen that Pharo3.0 is failing to load FFI
correctly (ShortRunArray not defined) so if you try to do an installServer
or installClient or installPharo today the installs will fail:(

I am in the process of tracking down the problem (I think the FFI
configuration has changed, but only circumstantial evidence so far - so it
may be something else)..if it is the configuration, I will copy the
configuration that works to the GsDevKit repo (maybe I'll copy all of the
FFI packages as well:) to insulate GsDevKit from these types of problems...

I'll send mail when I get the issue resolved.

Dale


On Mon, Jul 28, 2014 at 9:53 PM, Dale Henrichs <
dale.henrichs at gemtalksystems.com> wrote:

> GsDevKit[1] is basically a repackaging and rebranding for the GLASS.
> project.
>
> A single shell script[2] installs GemStone on your server, creates a new
> stone, installs and configures tODE, starts the stone and launches a tODE
> client ready for use:
>
>   installServer seaside 3.2.1
>
> For folks with remote clients (including Windows users), there are
> instructions for installing a remote client[3] once you have installed the
> server.
>
> Since you can install multiple stones with GsDevKit, there is a family of
> scripts[4] that you can use for starting/stopping the different stones.
>
> tODE is installed and configured so you should be able to start using tODE
> with a minimum of setup/installation. When you install a new version of
> GemStone the gci library files are copied into the correct spot in the
> pharo directory (true for remote clients and servers). The same tODE client
> can be used with multiple versions of GemStone.
>
> A number of the scripts in GsDevKit have been written to use tODE and it
> is possible to write shell scripts that invoke a tODE command[5] or execute
> arbitrary server smalltalk[6]. Just use the `todeClient` script[8] to start
> launch tODE.
>
> The scripts have been written to lean heavily on headless pharo, so the
> more complicated operations (or those that can benefit from inheritance)
> are written in Smalltalk. The Smalltalk code for scripts is embedded in the
> GsDevKit project[7]. Over time, more of the scripting functionality will be
> pushed into pharo.
>
> Finally, there is a section devoted to add-on projects[9]. As projects are
> ported to GsDevKit, folks can add a directory (via pull request) containing
> information about their project[10] including a README with
> GsDevKit-specific information[11].
>
> All scripts implement the -h option for help.
>
> The GsDevKit project is using travis-ci[12] for script validation (Linux).
>
> There's still more documentation to be written (of course) and more
> scripts (at GsDevKit and tODE levels) to be written, but I think that there
> is enough functionality present to benefit you folks. Existing stones can
> be spliced into the GsDevKit pretty easily (I've done this for my
> development stones at work).
>
> Let me know how things go ...
>
> Dale
>
>
> [1]
> https://github.com/GsDevKit/gsDevKitHome/blob/master/README.md#open-source-development-kit-for-gemstones-64-bit-
> [2]
> https://github.com/GsDevKit/gsDevKitHome/blob/master/README.md#development-kit-server-installation
> [3]
> https://github.com/GsDevKit/gsDevKitHome/blob/master/docs/clientInstallation.md#tode-client-installation
> [4]
> https://github.com/GsDevKit/gsDevKitHome/blob/master/README.md#gemstones-management-scripts
> [5]
> https://github.com/GsDevKit/gsDevKitHome/blob/master/projects/seaside31/loadProject#L49-51
> [6]
> https://github.com/GsDevKit/gsDevKitHome/blob/master/projects/seaside31/createProjectEntry#L67-79
> [7]https://github.com/GsDevKit/gsDevKitHome/tree/master/repository
> [8] https://github.com/GsDevKit/gsDevKitHome/blob/master/bin/todeClient
> [9]
> https://github.com/GsDevKit/gsDevKitHome/blob/master/projects/README.md#gsdevkit-projects
> [10]
> https://github.com/GsDevKit/gsDevKitHome/tree/master/projects/seaside31
> [11]
> https://github.com/GsDevKit/gsDevKitHome/tree/master/projects/seaside31#seaside31-
> [12] https://travis-ci.org/GsDevKit/gsDevKitHome
>
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