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

[Dale Henrichs]

FFI configuration change was the culprit and the configuration has been
fixed ...

Pharo installation for GsDevKit is working again:)

Dale


On Wed, Jul 30, 2014 at 9:44 AM, Dale Henrichs <
dale.henrichs at gemtalksystems.com> wrote:

> 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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