State of the latest pier release

Hello all,

I just set up an image with the latest and greatest of all the
packages, Kom, Seaside, Magritte, Pier.  And now when I look at the
pier site I just see the grey boxes for View, Commands and History,
nothing else shows up.  I browsed the PRKernel and everything seems to
be there, it just wont render.  Could this be due to the environment
changes, or should the latest version work?

Thanks,
Jason

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Hi Jason

> I just set up an image with the latest and greatest of all the  
> packages, Kom, Seaside, Magritte, Pier.  And now when I look at the  
> pier site I just see the grey boxes for View, Commands and History,  
> nothing else shows up.  I browsed the PRKernel and everything seems  
> to be there, it just wont render.  Could this be due to the  
> environment changes, or should the latest version work?

it should theoretically work. What versions did you load? Where did  
you load it from?

Cheers,
Lukas

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I got the latest web-dev image and then used Monticello to upgrade
everything to the latest possible version.  I just wanted to check
with you all first before I get too deep into troubleshooting.  In
cleaning up obsolete references and so on I may have broken a few too
many links.

And while on this subject, has anyone ever noticed a memory leak with
the Pier/Magritte/Seaside combo?  I deleted the PRKernel instance
"pier" (the only PRKernel there was), hit "clear caches" on the
seaside web page 10 times and then did a Smalltalk garbageCollect
about 10 times and still there are all kinds of Pier, Magritte and
Seaside rendering objects all over the place.  I suppose it's not a
big deal, but if clearing the caches doesn't unreferenced this stuff
that should have to references connecting back to the core image, then
I wonder what happens after running a web site for a year.

On Nov 12, 2007 10:19 AM, Lukas Renggli <[hidden email]> wrote:
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> I got the latest web-dev image and then used Monticello to upgrade
> everything to the latest possible version.  I just wanted to check
> with you all first before I get too deep into troubleshooting.  In
> cleaning up obsolete references and so on I may have broken a few too
> many links.

The web-dev images are broken. They include incompatible versions of  
different packages.

> And while on this subject, has anyone ever noticed a memory leak with
> the Pier/Magritte/Seaside combo?  I deleted the PRKernel instance
> "pier" (the only PRKernel there was), hit "clear caches" on the
> seaside web page 10 times and then did a Smalltalk garbageCollect
> about 10 times and still there are all kinds of Pier, Magritte and
> Seaside rendering objects all over the place.  I suppose it's not a
> big deal, but if clearing the caches doesn't unreferenced this stuff
> that should have to references connecting back to the core image, then
> I wonder what happens after running a web site for a year.

Only recently Philippe discovered a memory leak with the Seaside  
Halos. This might be related. Try evaluating "WAHalo initialize" and  
check if this solves the problem?

Cheers,
Lukas

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> Only recently Philippe discovered a memory leak with the Seaside  
> Halos. This might be related. Try evaluating "WAHalo initialize" and  
> check if this solves the problem?
>
> Cheers,
> Lukas
>  
oops, didnt realize you guys didnt know about that one... the Gjallar
team had spotted that one.

best regards

Keith

p.s. about persistency no offence taken really, I was just in a bit of a
hurry to go out and pick up my new car, so perhaps I was a little abrupt
and unsubtle in my communication. It was just good to have an
opportunity to remind the world the magma support is out there.

I was very pleased with magma's ability to persist pier structures.

The site on which I was planning to use magma persistency  was postponed
for a year or perhaps two.

I expect to use the Backup scheme on a site this week. This scheme is
the same as Image Persistency except that changes are committed to the
database as a backup.



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