[Glass] [ANN] GsUpgrader

[Dale Henrichs via Glass]

The GsUpgrader is intended to work with any
$GEMSTONE/bin/extent0.seaside.dbf .... it will not work work with a
$GEMSTONE/bin/extent0.dbf...

Dale

On Sat, Sep 20, 2014 at 6:34 PM, Jon Paynter via Glass <
glass at lists.gemtalksystems.com> wrote:

> Question -- is the GsUpgrader intended to be used for the initial install
> of glass?
>
> If not, i'll start another thread.
>
> if so.. I got new errors when trying.
>
> On Sat, Sep 20, 2014 at 6:22 PM, Dale Henrichs via Glass <
> glass at lists.gemtalksystems.com> wrote:
>
>> Johan,
>>
>> I have been trying a whole bunch of combinations to try to reproduce the
>> conflict that you are seeing and I've been unsuccessful ... so I guess I
>> need additional information.
>>
>> The log or transcript of the upgrade would be very useful along with the
>> result of:
>>
>>   GsUpgrader metacelloReport
>>
>> from before the load ...
>>
>> In the latest version of Metacello loading a baseline over a
>> configuration should never produce a conflict ... so you've probably got a
>> specific version of Metacello loaded along with GLASS that slips through
>> the GsUpgrader net ...
>>
>> There is a path in GsUpgrader that looks suspicious, but I prefer to have
>> a specific test case before making changes ...
>>
>> Dale
>>
>>
>> On Fri, Sep 19, 2014 at 12:12 PM, Johan Brichau <johan at yesplan.be> wrote:
>>
>>> Hi Dale,
>>>
>>> I’m currently applying the upgradeGLASS1 on a 3.1 stone running
>>> Seaside30 where I am upgrading to Zinc 2.4.3, which relies on GLASS.
>>> I’m getting a load conflict for Grease because I have the one loaded
>>> from Smalltalkhub.
>>>
>>> ERROR 2710 , a MetacelloConflictingProjectError occurred (error 2710),
>>> Load Conflict between existing ConfigurationOfGrease 1.0.9 from
>>> http://www.smalltalkhub.com/mc/Seaside/MetacelloConfigurations/main and
>>> BaselineOfGrease [baseline] from
>>> github://GsDevKit/Grease:master/repository
>>>  (MetacelloConflictingProjectError)
>>>
>>> Is this not something we can safely allow? Grease is going to be loaded
>>> from smalltalkhub or gemsource in many cases.
>>>
>>> Johan
>>>
>>> On 16 Sep 2014, at 19:17, Dale Henrichs via Glass <
>>> glass at lists.gemtalksystems.com> wrote:
>>>
>>> With the move of more and more GsDevKit projects to github, the process
>>> of upgrading to the proper version of GLASS and Metacello has gotten fairly
>>> complicated:
>>>
>>>   - Upgrade to GLASS1.0-beta.9.3 (unless you have already upgrading to
>>> GLASS1)
>>>   - Upgrade to the latest version of Metacello (load preview unless you
>>> have already loaded a baseline)
>>>   - Upgrade to the latest version of GLASS1
>>>
>>> I am also still adding features and bugfixes to Metacello to improve the
>>> support of git/github projects, and unfortunately it is not always possible
>>> to use Metacello to install an upgrade of Metacello itself.
>>>
>>> I created the gsUpgrader[1] project to simplify the upgrade process for
>>> the github-based projects. GsUpgrader is a single class with four entry
>>> points:
>>>
>>>   - upgradeGLASS[3]
>>>   - upgradeGLASS1[4]
>>>   - upgradeGrease[5]
>>>   - upgradeMetacello[6]
>>>
>>> A fifth entry point: #metacelloReport produces a project/package version
>>> report that is useful to help debug upgrade issues ... I've tested
>>> GsUpgrader in a number of scenarios[7], but there always seem to be special
>>> cases that sneak through the cracks.
>>>
>>> The class is loaded from a package using the following expression:
>>>
>>>   Gofer new
>>>     package: 'GsUpgrader-Core';
>>>     url: 'http://ss3.gemtalksystems.com/ss/gsUpgrader';
>>>     load.
>>>
>>> A simple package is used so that the GsUpgrader class can be used to
>>> upgrade GemStone installations as old as GemStone 2.4.4.1[2] (the first
>>> GemStone version that officially supported GLASS).
>>>
>>> I will start updating the installation instructions for the various
>>> github-based projects to use GsUpgrader.
>>>
>>> I would recommend that all of you use GsUpgrader to upgrade to the
>>> latest version of Metacello using the following expression:
>>>
>>>   Gofer new
>>>     package: 'GsUpgrader-Core';
>>>     url: 'http://ss3.gemtalksystems.com/ss/gsUpgrader';
>>>     load.
>>>   (Smalltalk at: #GsUpgrader) upgradeMetacello.
>>>
>>> Having an up-to-date version of Metacello is probably the most important
>>> thing at this juncture and it is always a good idea to upgrade Metacello
>>> before upgading any other github-based projects.
>>>
>>> Dale
>>>
>>> [1] https://github.com/GsDevKit/gsUpgrader#gsupgrader-
>>> [2]
>>> http://gemstonesoup.wordpress.com/2010/07/15/gemstones-64-version-2-4-4-1-is-shipping/
>>> [3] https://github.com/GsDevKit/gsUpgrader#gsupgrader-classupgradeglass
>>> [4] https://github.com/GsDevKit/gsUpgrader#gsupgrader-classupgradeglass1
>>> [5] https://github.com/GsDevKit/gsUpgrader#gsupgrader-classupgradegrease
>>> [6]
>>> https://github.com/GsDevKit/gsUpgrader#gsupgrader-classupgrademetacello
>>> [7] https://travis-ci.org/GsDevKit/gsUpgrader/builds/35386940
>>>
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