"Bill Schwab" <
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> Paolo,
>
> > I am a beginner and at the moment I am looking at squeak and free dolphin.
> I
> > am writing some examples joust to become more familiar with smalltalk,
> then
> > I tried to fileOut from squeak and fileIn into dolphin but I get in many
> > problems, the same happen from dolphin to squeak.
> > How can export/import code in a product independent way? I guess should be
> > some tools, where can I find them?
>
> You need an implementation of the Smalltalk Interchange Format (SIF) for
> both Dolphin and Squeak. I've used them between Squeak 3.0 and Dolphin 4.x,
> but, haven't tried it with more recent versions. D5 changes a few things
> that might have broken the D4 SIF; I'm not sure if the SIF was ever released
> for Dolphin 2.x. Testing and fixing anything that turns up in Squeak 3.2
> and D5 is on my list of things to do, but, not at a very high priority at
> the moment. Hopefully the original authors are busy working on new
> versions.
>
> Have a good one,
>
> Bill
Eric Arsenau (sorry for spelling) has an implenentation 2.0
of SIF for Dolphin, Squeak, VW, VAST, and others. He was pretty busy
a while back but is now moving his SIF stuff from the PocketSmalltalk
site to SourceForge, I think.
I enhanced his 2.0 (mine 3.0), and would be happy to help, but I have
no computer for a while.
If Bill has made the SIF stuff I sent available, you might get that
and try to get it working on the versions. This may be a little too
diffacult if you are just starting out in Smalltalk.
On the other hand, it would be a great learning experience if you got
them working or not.
Richard Harmon
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