[Glass] Connection failed from Jade to GemStone 3.7.1

[Norm Green]

Hi Patrik,

GemStone supports GemBuilder for Smalltalk for both VisualWorks (Cincom) 
and VisualAge (Instantiations). The vast majority of our production 
customers are using one of those.

Each requires a separate license from those vendors.

On the open source side (not officially supported by GemTalk) we have:

-Sparkle -- Debugger/inspector, but does not browse code, requires 
GemStone 3.7.0 or later

-gt4GemStone -- More or less same limitations as Sparkle

-Jadeite for Pharo -- Only works with Rowan**, requires GS 3.7.1 or later

-Jadeite for Dolphin -- Only works with Rowan**

-Jade -- Requires Windows

For an immediate open source solution, use Jade on Windows VMs. Windows 
VMs are indeed inconvenient, but this solution works today and is well 
supported by James Foster.

In the future there will be additional options.

Norm

**Rowan is a new project/package manager for Smalltalk that supports 
FileTree and Tonel repositories. It is a work in progress. See: 
https://github.com/GemTalk/Rowan


On 10/10/2024 5:53 AM, Patrik Svestka via Glass wrote:
> Hi Norm,
>
> A pleasure to hear from you.  I have opened issue @github, which I have
> mentioned in the first message.
>
> The most important point is that I have figured it out by reading
> James's Jade source code.  The issue was in the incorrectly specified
> NetLDI Task name, which should have been `gemnetobject` (for anyone
> struggling with it in the future).
>
> I did not receive any email from mailing list so I'm trying just to
> write to the mailing list with the identical topic.
>
> I'm rather confused what is supported and production ready IDE by
> GemTalk and what is not.  I had checked the GemTalk System's
> repositories @github prior writing to the mailing list.  I projects
> like Jadeite (fork of Jade), JadeiteForPharo, Sparkle and
> PharoGemStoneFFI.
>
> - I have checked the Jadeite's repository -
> https://github.com/GemTalk/Jadeite.  It does not seem to be maintained
> anymore as the last commit was 6 years ago and release about more than
> 1 year ago.  I thought to myself, maybe the development moved to Jade
> again so I was asking question about Jade.
>
> - Next I have checked JadeiteForPharo -
> https://github.com/GemTalk/JadeiteForPharo which is active and only for
> Pharo 12. Is that a spin-off from Jadite?
>
> - There is then Sparkle - https://github.com/GemTalk/Sparkle; with
> separate GemStone GCI Pharo FFI library - PharoGemStoneFFI
> (https://github.com/GemTalk/PharoGemStoneFFI), which needs GemStone
> client libraries for 3.6.x or 3.7.0.
>
> I guess the question now changes to what solution is/are maintained and
> considered production ready by GemTalk?
>
> Best regards,
>
> Patrik
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