gst projects

In a blog comment (http://smalltalk.gnu.org/blog/nico/sandstonedb-now-ported-gnu-smalltalk)
I wrote:

  What I'd consider to be much more important is having a well-known
  place where gst-related software is to be found. Perhaps the greatest
  problem the beautiful Dolphin Smalltalk had, even in the "good old
  times" was a lack of such a thing.

Paolo replied:

  The best well-known place is this site: http://smalltalk.gnu.org/project

As far as I can tell, this provides a place for keeping information _about_
the project, not actual storage for the code. Is this impression correct?
If so, there's a good chance of teeth gnashing when sites move and links rot.

I'll have to try it out anyways, as it looks like I actually wrote a useful
POS---piece of software, not a decrepit used car--- which seems to have
gained a vibrant user community of 1 (waves to Nico).

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> I'll have to try it out anyways, as it looks like I actually wrote a useful
> POS---piece of software, not a decrepit used car--- which seems to have
> gained a vibrant user community of 1 (waves to Nico).

If you're talking about the PackageBuilder, yes, it's great!
This kind of tools make my life easier. Now I smile when I have to
modify iliad's package ;)

Cheers!

--
Nicolas Petton

Iliad Smalltalk web framework
http://iliad.bioskop.fr

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From Paolo's answer:

>It should not be hard to make a RSS view of the projects page, and a
>gst RSS reader to download .star files...

Why RSS? Doesn't seem very handy to me...

Cheers!

Nico

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On 08/25/2009 11:37 PM, Nicolas Petton wrote:
>  From Paolo's answer:
>
>> It should not be hard to make a RSS view of the projects page, and a
>> gst RSS reader to download .star files...
>
> Why RSS? Doesn't seem very handy to me...

Bah, Drupal already supports RSS for many things, I figured out it would
be easier.  Maybe I'm wrong.  It wouldn't be the first time.  :-)

Paolo


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>    The best well-known place is this site: http://smalltalk.gnu.org/project
>
> As far as I can tell, this provides a place for keeping information _about_
> the project, not actual storage for the code. Is this impression correct?

Yes.  It does not provide git hosting, for example.  To do so, I would
have to abandon shared hosting which is dirt cheap (I payed 150$ for 5
years).

OTOH, it does provide issue tracking and publication of releases
and---most important---a centralized database, kind of like Gems or
CPAN.  A combination of smalltalk.gnu.org and sites like gitorious or
git-hub (or why not, bitbucket; I hate mercurial but other people prefer
it) would do it.

> I'll have to try it out anyways, as it looks like I actually wrote a useful
> POS---piece of software, not a decrepit used car--- which seems to have
> gained a vibrant user community of 1 (waves to Nico).

:-D

Paolo


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> or why not, bitbucket

Off topic, but since I didn't choose a dvcs yet, why do you hate it?
It seems similar to git, but _lot_ simpler.

Cheers!

Nico

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On 08/26/2009 11:10 AM, Nicolas Petton wrote:
>> or why not, bitbucket
>
> Off topic, but since I didn't choose a dvcs yet, why do you hate it?
> It seems similar to git, but _lot_ simpler.

That's the point, it's not simpler. :-)

git may *feel* harder at the beginning, but after going from git to hg
it feels like you cannot remove the training wheels.

Try following my tutorial on my blog.

Paolo


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