[Glass] Rowan installation

[Dale Henrichs]

Otto,

Rowan isn't quite ready for prime time ... I haven't been keeping the installation instructions up to date, because I'm not prepared to support it's use ... when Rowan is ready it will be pre-installed in extent0.dbf . Right now we build an extent0.rowan.dbf, but we do not ship it in the product release ...
Rowan is certainly usable as it stands today (v2). We use Rowan and Jadeite on a daily basis internally for working on the base image and other projects, but there are several features that aren't quite ready for production and we have yet to write much documentation. I'm aiming for Rowan v3 being ready for production use, but we are still working on getting a Pharo based dev environment for non-windows users and the current version of Jadeite doesn't support all of the features for v3.x. For example, Jadite does not have gui support for creating Rowan projects and packages, but Rowan has a pretty extensive api, and you can write doits to fill in the blanks.
If you want to play with Rowan in this rough state, then I recommend that you download a 3.6.1 rowan extent[1] , Oscar3.1.1pre-release1[4] and take it for a spin with 3.6.1.
Caveat emptor, consider this an early pre-Alpha! Upgrade support and documentation will not be provided until it is officially released and not all of the features that I consider required are functional). With that said we would appreciate feedback, so feel free to submit feedback for Rowan here[2] and Jadeite here[3].
If you (or anyone else) decides to take an early tour of Rowan, please drop me a line and tell me what you are thinking of doing and I will provide you with basic instructions for doing what you want to do or tell you that it's not ready for that:).
Now is a good time for providing feedback, especially if you have certain expectations for an official GemStone development environment, because there is still room to consider feature requests for inclusion in v3 ...
Dale
[1] https://github.com/dalehenrich/superDoit/releases/download/v0.1.0/3.6.1_extent0.solo.dbf.gz
[2] https://github.com/GemTalk/Rowan/issues
[3] https://github.com/GemTalk/Jadeite/issues
[4] https://github.com/GemTalk/Jadeite/releases/tag/Oscar3.1.1pre-release1
On Apr 30 2021, at 1:46 am, Otto Behrens via Glass <glass at lists.gemtalksystems.com> wrote:
> Hi,
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> I downloaded GemStone 3.6.1 and tried to install Rowan (I understand that I need it to run Jadeite). I'm getting the following error messages. Can you please help?
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> ERROR 2010 , a MessageNotUnderstood occurred (error 2010), a Rowan class does not understand #'gemstoneTools'
> topaz > exec iferr 1 : stk
> ==> 1 MessageNotUnderstood >> defaultAction @2 line 3
> 2 MessageNotUnderstood (AbstractException) >> _signalWith: @5 line 25
> 3 MessageNotUnderstood (AbstractException) >> signal @2 line 47
> 4 Rowan class (Object) >> doesNotUnderstand: @9 line 10
> 5 Rowan class (Object) >> _doesNotUnderstand:args:envId:reason: @8 line 14
> 6 STONReader class (Behavior) >> _rwCompileMethodForConditionalPackaging:symbolList:category:environmentId:ifUnpackagedDo: @28 line 42
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> Thanks
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