[Glass] GLASS appliance (VMWare virtual machine) still available?

Wed May 20 09:46:45 PDT 2015

James,

I literally didn't know that you were working on a glass appliance. I 
guess I will sit back and wait along with everyone else for information...

Dale

On 05/19/2015 09:41 PM, James Foster via Glass wrote:
> Hi Frank,
>
> My suggestions:
>
> 1) GemStone:
> Download the virtual appliance at 
> http://seaside.gemtalksystems.com/jade/glass.zip, unzip, and start it up.
> Log in using ‘glass’ as the user and password.
> From the command line enter 'ifconfig | grep inet’ (without the 
> quotes) to find out your virtual host’s IP address.
> From the command line enter ‘gslist -cvl’ (without the quotes) to 
> confirm that you have a Stone, Cache, and NetLDI running on the 
> virtual server.
>
> 2) Jade:
> Download Jade from 
> https://github.com/jgfoster/Jade/raw/master/runtime/Jade.zip, unzip it 
> on your Windows 7 machine, and launch Jade.exe.
> Select the GemStone/Smalltalk version to match that listed in the 
> gslist command above (I believe it will be 3.1.0.x).
> Enter the Host Name or IP address for the virtual server.
> Enter the NetLDI service port number (it should be 50377).
> Enter the Stone Name from the gslist command above.
> Use ‘DataCurator’ and ‘swordfish’ as the user ID and password.
> Enter your name (without spaces) as the Monticello User Name.
> Click Login.
>
> At this point you can explore the system from Windows.
>
> I don’t expect everything to go perfectly, but I’ll be interested in 
> finding out what problems you encounter so that we can improve the 
> process.
>
>
> Note that this is only one approach to getting started with GemStone. 
> The more “official” process is the Open Source Development Kit 
> (http://gemtalksystems.com/techsupport/community-and-mailing-lists/) 
> and Dale might provide some references and guidance in that direction.
>
> James
>
>
>> On May 19, 2015, at 9:00 PM, FrankB via Glass 
>> <glass at lists.gemtalksystems.com 
>> <mailto:glass at lists.gemtalksystems.com>> wrote:
>>
>> Hello
>>
>> and thank you very much for this super quick reply.
>>
>> I am currently (still) using Win7 for development but I also have a Linux
>> (SuSe) machine next to me as my "application testing lab". There are 
>> VMware
>> and VirtualBox installed on both (I am moving all from VM [due to several
>> security problems] to VirtualBox, which is also much simpler to 
>> handle). I
>> shall never ever use any Mac!
>>
>>> . What things would you like to learn?
>> Well, seeing is believing! Many things get much clearer if one has DONE
>> them.
>>
>> Additionally, I would like to get a - even if subjective - feeling for
>> performance. My projects have quite complex objects (database publishing
>> amongst other use cases) and I would probably try to create a couple 
>> of test
>> objects to play with - rather more read-write than select.
>>
>> Also, I want to get to know better the selecting capabilities and compare
>> them to my alternative (and currently in theory preferred) indexing 
>> through
>> Sphinx. I must be prepared to support a couple of 10.000 simultaneous 
>> users
>> as another of my projects (huge  market niche) has this potential.
>>
>>> Do you want a traditional GUI IDE or would you be willing to learn the
>> built-in command-line interface?
>>
>> Well, a question that I cannot fully answer due to my lack of 
>> knowledge. I
>> though that this was handled primarily through Pharo. I am NOT positive
>> about command line interfaces but, of course, I use them when 
>> required but
>> being an application focused developer I regard hardware and OS as
>> unfortunately indispensable tools (it's even more stupid than sad 
>> that the
>> Unix world has not learned anything in the last 30 years in this respect;
>> SuSe's GUI tools are a tiny first step).
>>
>> Therefore, if you have anything better than command line it will be 
>> highly
>> welcome.
>>
>> BTW: I was NOT expecting that you make one for me specifically but I 
>> rather
>> thought that this was a "normal" subject for such a high-end tool.
>>
>> But in any case thank you in advance.
>>
>> FrankB
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
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