thanks a lot Udo. 
We really appreciate that.

I was in contact with nicolas about SmalltalkHub. They were trying to see if 
they could build a complete pharo solution for the back-end.

Stef

> All,
> 
> building on top of Johan's work I built kind of a squeaksource CDN. This CDN 
> mirrors squeaksource daily and should provide fast access to all packages 
> using "nearby" edge location. Before making this public I'd like to get some 
> feedback on it's speed and reliability - especially if you are far away (in 
> terms of hops and bandwidth) from the real squeaksource server.
> 
> So if you can spare some time please drop me a mail and I'll send you further 
> details.
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Udo
> 
> 
> On 17.01.12 15:00, Johan Fabry wrote:
>> Hi All,
>> 
>> Alex notified me that there were some mails flying around here about the 
>> squeaksource mirror. I'm usually not on this mailing list because of its 
>> high volume. I'd like to gather some questions that have been raised in the 
>> last few days (thanks Nabble!) and give answers / share my thoughts. I'll 
>> try to keep it brief.
>> 
>> - How to use the mirror. If you don't know or tend to forget, just point a 
>> web browser at http://dsal.cl/squeaksource Everything is explained there. 
>> Write the URL on a post-it, add it to your browers favorites or whatever ;-) 
>> Just remember http://dsal.cl/squeaksource
>> 
>> - Mirror not complete: It is supposed to be a full mirror of the public 
>> packages on Squeaksource. We are using wget to copy everything over. If you 
>> know of a project that misses packages, please send me a mail (personally, 
>> not to the list is best I guess) and we will try to debug the issue.
>> 
>> - Pharo 1.4 / ObjectAsMethodWrapper issues: The redirect package was written 
>> for 1.3, it uses ObjectAsMethodWrapper (i.e. method wrappers). I don't know 
>> why ObjectAsMethodWrapper (apparently) is no longer in 1.4 but I would 
>> highly recommend including it as it is a very useful package. I thought even 
>> the profiler used it. In any case, I welcome any contributions on how to 
>> make it work for 1.4
>> 
>> - Friendler configuration / user interface / having it in the core image / 
>> ...: I am all for it, but I cannot dedicate the time to this right now. All 
>> help is welcome and highly appreciated. I guess that some of you must be 
>> much more knowledgeable at preferences settings/user interfaces et al. so 
>> what would take you 10 minutes would take me a day ...
>> 
>> I subscribed to the list now BTW so any comments/questions simply hit reply 
>> :-)
>> 
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>> Johan Fabry
>> [email protected] - http://dcc.uchile.cl/~jfabry
>> PLEIAD Lab - Computer Science Department (DCC) - University of Chile
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> 
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