On Sat, Sep 29, 2012 at 2:20 PM, Mariano Martinez Peck <
[email protected]> wrote:

>
>
> On Sat, Sep 29, 2012 at 12:59 PM, Denis Kudriashov 
> <[email protected]>wrote:
>
>> 2012/9/29 Mariano Martinez Peck <[email protected]>
>>
>>>
>>>
>>> On Fri, Sep 28, 2012 at 11:31 PM, Denis Kudriashov <[email protected]
>>> > wrote:
>>>
>>>> Hello
>>>>
>>>> ss3 repo for Shapes and Gaucho closed for reading or maybe empty.
>>>> So is it possible to get it somewhere? maybe there is prepared image?
>>>>
>>>> Actually I gather migrate our applications to last Pharo and use latest
>>>> achievemens like fuel and tanker.
>>>>
>>>
>>> Hi. I don't want to go offtopic in the original thread so I opened this
>>> one.
>>> Of course it is usually a good idea to migrate to latest stable Pharo
>>> release so that you don't stay with a very old image. Anyway, what I wanted
>>> to say is that Fuel DOES WORK in previous images. In fact, it works from
>>> Pharo 1.1 to 2.0.  And Tanker right now works in 2.0 only by just because
>>> by default we use the new ClassBuilder. But this can be easily changed for
>>> those who want to use it in older versions. Anyway, Tanker is still a
>>> little bit green ;)    For more details read my answer to this comment:
>>> http://marianopeck.wordpress.com/2012/09/28/new-tanker-current-status/#comment-905
>>>
>>
>> Hello and thank's for response.
>>
>> Actually I want use Tanker to deploy my applications with "bootstrap way"
>> where only kernel minimal image existed and all application loaded at
>> startup.
>> It will simplify delivering application updates to slow remote targets. I
>> can just upload small tanker files and load it seamlessly because its
>> really fast.
>> And without image saves no corrupt images due to something bad at middle
>> of image save.
>>
>
> Hi Denis. I want to say a couple of things about this. First, you are not
> the only one wanting this. In fact, that scenario is one of the reasons we
> are investing a lot of time in the infrastructure:
>
> 1) Pavel Krivanek has been working a lot in making the image more modular,
> being able to cleanly unload and reload packages. This was the first step.
> 2) Jannik Laval continue that effort trying to remove lots of
> cyclic dependencies between packages.
> 3) Guillermo Polito started to work in the bootstrap. He is now able to
> bootstrap images from scratch (contrary to Pavel's PharoKernel where he was
> unloading packages).
> 4) Esteban Lorenzano is working on a new ConfigurationOfPharo that will
> let you take a kernel/bootstraped/minimal image and load just the packages
> you want.
> 5) Camilo Bruni, Martin Dias, Guillermo Polito, and Toon Verwaest have
> been working in a new class builder based on layouts. The "old
> ClassBuilder" is really difficult to maintain, understand, fix, etc. When
> you load packages, the class builder takes an important role. Therefore,
> they were working in a new class builder, which, from my point of view, is
> way better, object-oriented, tested, etc.
> 6) Martin Dias and Me were working in Tanker, a tool to export/import
> packages of code using Fuel without Compiler.
>
>
And the list can of course continue:

7) Dale did Metacello, which is a great package management system (needed
by 4) and for all the rest of the projects)
8) Fuel, as it is needed by 6)
.....
and so on...


> So.....as you can see there is/was a lot of work going on related to what
> you need :)  It is not 100% ready, but we are getting there.
>
> Cheers,
>
>
>> Best regards,
>> Denis
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>
>
> --
> Mariano
> http://marianopeck.wordpress.com
>
>


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