lex

did you publish the script you used to create these images?

Stef

On 30 janv. 05, at 22:38, Lex Spoon wrote:

Okay, I finally posted an image based on the Stable Squeak 3.7 Universe.

http://minnow.cc.gatech.edu/squeak/3835

This is a good starter image for two groups of people:

# Newbies to Squeak, who want to see what Squeak is like. They can click on the projects and have them reliably load. Further, they don't care whether they have the newest packages available - they are happy to play with the most popular ones.

# Application developers. If you are writing a program in Squeak, as opposed to working on Squeak itself, then you would like to have a stable baseline to start from. This image is perfect: it is well defined and all the packages load successfully. As a special case, classes that use Squeak, would find this a good image to start from.

These user groups are not served by our current release process. Even if they grab a 3.7 image (or more likely, an even older one), how are they to access the packages that were available at the time? 3.7u answers that question: the set of packages is listed in a universe, and that particular universe is not allowed to be modified except for extremely important bug fixes.

Comments welcome. I'll post new bugfix releases over time, but will not include any major changes. The Stable 3.7 Universe is "stable" because it doesn't change, not because it works perfectly.

-Lex

This is terrific Lex, thank you.

As a matter of interest what did you have to do to get from where we were (squeakmap package loader) to this point ?

On Sun, 30 Jan 2005 16:38:57 -0500, Lex Spoon lex@cc.gatech.edu wrote:

Comments welcome.

The install mechanism isn't working for me. When I try to install one of the packages that isn't in universetmp/, I always time out waiting for the server to respond. I doubt it's a proxy getting in the way because:

1. There isn't one,

2. The ordinary Squeak update mechanism works fine out of the box, and

3. I can't get at it from a shell account I have elsewhere.

I've pasted the URL from the debugger into an xterm. Should things like...

lynx http://universes.dnsalias.net:8888/universes/repositories/stable-3.7/DNS.cs....

...work? lynx times out waiting for the server too, both from the house and from my remote shell account. I guess it's my problem alone since nobody else has mentioned it but I want to make sure.

Thanks, Steve