On Jul 15, 2009, at 6:04 PM, Schwab,Wilhelm K wrote:

> Hello all,
>
> I managed to create an install script; as I suspected would be case,  
> it was very anticlimactic.  I tried creating a password-protected  
> directory under my personal web site, but that did not go well.  The  
> authentication is weird, so it was probably asking a lot.  A  
> directory repository worked.

Good to know
> Does Monticello/PackageInfo see a change in method category (aka  
> package) as a change to the package?

normally it should.

> It appears not, and it worries me a little in that it seems to make  
> it easy to lose work by forgetting to save it.  Do any of you script  
> saving your packages?

you can check in ScriptLoader to see how we compute the packages that  
changed (not only dirty but also new packages)

> The results are untested at present, but I used SIF to transfer a  
> fair amount of code into Pharo.  To cope with the naming of the ODBC  
> classes, I ended up doing things like Smalltalk at:#DBConnection  
> put:ODBCConnection, and that worked out nicely, at least AFAICT at  
> this stage.  SIF finally ended up complaining about running out of  
> items when processing the last file.  I reserve the right to later  
> report that it was a miserable failure, but it looks like I most of  
> the code imported.
>
> Using the standard tools, the w2k theme, disabling faded backgrounds  
> and enabling fast drag, performance on an older Linux system is ok  
> (more or less).  There are still things that take too long,

like what?

> and Pharo's responses are no better (sometimes worse) than even  
> software running over a remote desktop connection.  We need a speed  
> boost, but judicious settings help a little.
>
> Is there a way to disable the anti-aliased fonts?  In fairness, I  
> should try turning that off to see if any speed boost is worth the  
> price.
>
> Bill
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