[ANN] KernelImage Monticello repository with Comanche and Seaside

There's new Monticello repository with pacakges for the KernelImage

    * http://www.squeaksource.com/KernelImage.html

Here you can find modified versions of standard packages.

You need to have KernelImage with Monticello support. That means that
you should create basic KernelImage, then download latest versions of
packages Compression, Network, PackageInfo and Monticello from the
repository, unzip it end load source.st files of all this packages.

Prepared image:
http://www.comtalk.net/Squeak/uploads/98/KernelImage-MC-7061c.zip

Use external files for long scripts, current console cannot process
multiline commands.

You may then reload this packages or newer versions from the repository again:

#('Compression-pk.10.mcz'
  'Network-pk.41.mcz'
  'PackageInfo-al.6.mcz'
  'Monticello-pk.309.mcz')
do: [:packageName |
    ((MCHttpRepository location:
'http://www.squeaksource.com/KernelImage' user: '' password: '')
    loadVersionFromFileNamed: packageName) load ]

Then you can load next packages like Comanche and Seaside.

#('SUnit-pk.35.mcz'
  'GraphicsFiles-pk.3.mcz'
  'DigitalSignatures-pk.3.mcz'
  'DynamicBindings-gk.3.mcz'
  'KomServices-pk.4.mcz'
  'KomHttpServer-pk.2.mcz'
  'Seaside2-pk.7.mcz')
do: [:packageName |
    ((MCHttpRepository location:
'http://www.squeaksource.com/KernelImage' user: '' password: '')
loadVersionFromFileNamed: packageName) load ]

Some other packages like Scriptaculous can be loaded from standard repositories.

((MCHttpRepository location: 'http://www.squeaksource.com/Seaside'
user: '' password: '') loadVersionFromFileNamed:
'Scriptaculous-lr.141.mcz') load

How to save package:

| repository pkg |
repository := (MCHttpRepository location:
  'http://www.squeaksource.com/MyRepository' user: '' password: '').
pkg := MCPackage named: 'MyPackage'.
pkg workingCopy repositoryGroup addRepository: repository.
repository storeVersion: pkg workingCopy newVersion.

All packages except Seaside are clean. That means that the image has
empty Undeclared collection. The maintainers of this packages should
look at this versions and modify their packages to be more adapted for
UI-less and Tools-less images.

http://www.comtalk.net/Squeak/98

-- Pavel

This is a great piece of work, thank you Pavel!

/Klaus

On Sun, 22 Oct 2006 16:37:10 +0200, Pavel Krivanek wrote:

Pavel Krivanek wrote:
> Prepared image:
> http://www.comtalk.net/Squeak/uploads/98/KernelImage-MC-7061c.zip

Using this image, and the instructions I found on your
site, I was able to get a Seaside image up and running,
with the web-based class browser (about 6Mb image).

One problem I had was with:

> Use external files for long scripts, current console cannot process
> multiline commands.

I wasn't sure what syntax to use in the script file.
The script was run using:

     (FileStream readOnlyFileNamed: 'doit.st') fileIn.

So I wasn't sure where I needed to put '!' characters.
Turns out that any sequence of Smalltalk statements
seems to work for now.

I did have a problem using #ifError:, in the manner
shown in the examples. I kept getting syntax errors,
so I just skipped the #ifError: part.

I had a problem with Character>>codePoint. The method
is listed in the browser, but when selected, there's
no code. So I just used copy&paste from another image
to redefine the method. #codePoint was needed to run
postgres.

I was able to load the PostgreSQL Client and manually
query a database for timenow(), but the test suite would
not run correctly. I got a recurring console message:
-----
*** EXCEPTION ***
UnhandledError
an OrderedCollection(ConsoleUIManager>>unhandledErrorDefaultAction:
UnhandledError>>defaultAction UndefinedObject>>handleSignal:
UnhandledError(Exception)>>signal UnhandledError
class>>signalForException: MessageNotUnderstood(Error)>>defaultAction
UndefinedObject>>handleSignal: MessageNotUnderstood(Exception)>>signal
UndefinedObject(Object)>>doesNotUnderstand: #do: Message>>sentTo:
UndefinedObject(Object)>>doesNotUnderstand: #do: Message>>sentTo:
UndefinedObject(Object)>>doesNotUnderstand: #do: Message>>sentTo:
UndefinedObject(Object)>>doesNotUnderstand: #do: Message>>sentTo:
UndefinedObject(Object)>>doesNotUnderstand: #do: Message>>sentTo:
UndefinedObject(Object)>>doesNotUnderstand: #do: Message>>sentTo:)
-----
I closed the image, instead of letting it continue looping.

Thanks for all this great work, and I hope it becomes
the starting point for a Squeak 4.0.

On 10/23/06, Yanni Chiu <[hidden email]> wrote:
If your script is short, you need no exclamation marks. Exclamation
marks determine parts that are evaluated at once.

> I did have a problem using #ifError:, in the manner
> shown in the examples. I kept getting syntax errors,
> so I just skipped the #ifError: part.

You will get syntax errors if your command are longer than single line
so try to use wider window.

> I had a problem with Character>>codePoint. The method
> is listed in the browser, but when selected, there's
> no code. So I just used copy&paste from another image
> to redefine the method. #codePoint was needed to run
> postgres.

This method was deleted automatically as unused. The reason why it is
still visible in the browser is because the categorizers need to be
updated. Thank you for the hint.

> I was able to load the PostgreSQL Client and manually
> query a database for timenow(), but the test suite would
> not run correctly. I got a recurring console message:

You have to use the error handling to see more.
Look at [KernelImageOverride] issues on Mantis and it may be very soon ;-)

-- Pavel

Pavel Krivanek wrote:
> You will get syntax errors if your command are longer than single line
> so try to use wider window.

Oh, now I get it. I was pasting a single line.
I didn't know you meant one line in the console window.

>> I had a problem with Character>>codePoint. ...
>
> This method was deleted automatically as unused.

It happens to be the ANSI standard method. That's why
I use it instead of #asciiValue or some such (since I
wanted my code to be portable across ST dialects - BTW,
sticking to ANSI only doesn't make the code portable,
but it's a step towards it).

In testing KernelImage I find that Network included MimeDocument but it
appears to be a different version to that in 3.9

In 3.9 MimeDocument>>url is implemented amonst others whereas in the
KernelImage version it is not.

Is this to be expected or am I missing something?

Keith
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On 11/7/06, Keith Hodges <[hidden email]> wrote:
> In testing KernelImage I find that Network included MimeDocument but it
> appears to be a different version to that in 3.9
>
> In 3.9 MimeDocument>>url is implemented amonst others whereas in the
> KernelImage version it is not.
>
> Is this to be expected or am I missing something?
>
> Keith

Hmm, this is the only selector that is missing in this class and I
cannot explain why. It will be fixed. Thank you...

-- Pavel