Haha, .... now I see that:) On Apr 27, 2011, at 11:13 PM, Stéphane Ducasse wrote:
> I was thinking about migration from SS to SS3 > On Apr 27, 2011, at 10:16 PM, Dale Henrichs wrote: > >> Since you mention GemStone:) >> >> We have customers who have migrated repositories created 10+ years ago with >> our 32 bit product to the latest current version of our 64 bit product. >> >> We have changed our Smalltalk class-library over the years and customers >> have had to upgrade their own class libraries if they chose to continue >> taking advantage of our newer releases ... then there are some who have >> chosen not to migrate: I think there are still production applications >> running GemStone on a version 20 years old:) ... as long as their hardware >> holds out they are fine:) >> >> Production customers don't tend to move very fast in upgrading their >> hardware and software so we end up supporting older versions of oSes for >> quite awhile...But when the os vendor announces and end of life of an os, it >> becomes difficult for us to continue to support that version... >> >> For the older versions we backport critical bugfixes to the older versions >> as long as their are active customers (read paying maintenance dollars) >> using the older versions. >> >> Dale >> >> >> On 04/27/2011 10:23 AM, Stéphane Ducasse wrote: >>> >>>>> squeaksource.com is down a lot. People get frustrated at times. >>>> >>>> Yes, and unfortunately it looks like people love to be frustrated. >>>> >>>> Otherwise people would give Tobias more feedback on SqueakSource3 (see >>>> [1]) which IMHO could overtake the job in the future and replace the >>>> problematic image? >>> >>> I do not know. >>> Do SS3 has a migration process? >>> How easy is it to install on an old machine? >>> Does gemstone run on a old mac g3? >>> Should we install glass? >>> I do not know. >>> >>> You see nothing looks simple when we want to do it. >>> >>>> Or is the outage a traffic problem and may >>>> happen with SS3 too? >>>> >>>> Is the (daily?) restart the only option we have or is a migration >>>> to a newer SS version possible? >>> >>> No idea. >>> Do you know? >>> >>>> And yes - SmalltalkHub is on the way, but we still dont know >>>> how well it fits our needs/works/scales. Yes, this sounds negative but >>>> I think it can replace Squeaksource only in a long term... >>> >>> we will see and learn. >>> >>>> Bye >>>> T. >>>> >>>> >>>> [1] >>>> http://lists.gforge.inria.fr/pipermail/pharo-project/2011-April/047780.html >>>> -- >>>> NEU: FreePhone - kostenlos mobil telefonieren und surfen! >>>> Jetzt informieren: http://www.gmx.net/de/go/freephone >>>> >>> >>> >> >
