Smalltalk upgrade 3.x to 7.x

Hi Michael,

It depends on many things, mainly how much GUI code you have, is this
server or client app etc. Can you describe you app a bit more?

Best regards
Janko

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Hi Janko,

           I do not know exactly but, I would say there are around 7000
+/-Defined and Extended Classes currently in Envy. It is a part of a client
server application but, the Smalltalk is just the client.

Mike

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From: Janko Mivšek [mailto:[hidden email]]
Sent: Monday, November 20, 2006 10:13 AM
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Subject: Re: Smalltalk upgrade 3.x to 7.x

Hi Michael,

It depends on many things, mainly how much GUI code you have, is this
server or client app etc. Can you describe you app a bit more?

Best regards
Janko

Michael Gross wrote:
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Janko Mivšek
Svetovalec za informatiko
EraNova d.o.o.
Ljubljana, Slovenija
www.eranova.si
tel:  01 514 22 55
faks: 01 514 22 56
gsm: 031 674 565

Mike,

We did this last year for a fairly large system (client and GemStone
server Smalltalk). We spent most time in sorting out prerequisites in the
Store environment, after importing everything. We run into a lot of
circulair prerequisite issues. We also had some third party frameworks
like DDF that have no Store release.

Some tips:

1) Don't bother about namespaces at first.
2) Export your (sub)applications as .st files one by one and load them
into your Store image using GHChangeList (See GHTools in the cincom open
repository). GHChangeList deals with packages and namespaces.
3) Check the open repository to find out what has already been ported by
others.

Hope this gives you an idea on the amount of work in your case.

Adriaan.

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