SandstoneDb now ported to GNU-Smalltalk!
By Nicolas Petton - Posted on August 25th, 2009
SandstoneDb, a simple ActiveRecord style presistence for Smalltalk, is now available for GNU-Smalltalk.
All the tests pass, but you'll need the latest Git version of GST in order to use it, since a new primitive needed by SandstoneDb has been added.
git clone git://github.com/NicolasPetton/sandstonedb.git
Many thanks to Sébastien Audier for doing almost all the porting job!
Great job guys, I hope you find it useful.
If you need to download the latest git version, you will actually have SSDB included. ;-)
While future versions will likely switch to a new distribution mechanism, where more and more things will be downloaded as needed, for now let's stick with the monolithic tarball approach. :-)
Considering the size of the other Smalltalks for Linux systems, you still have quite some leeway until you need to worry about providing smaller packages.
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.
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The best well-known place is this site.
It should not be hard to make a RSS view of the projects page, and a gst RSS reader to download .star files...
(Regarding splitting the package, the reason is more to allow independent updates of Seaside, Iliad, SandstoneDb, Swazoo and the other imported packages. This is easier and easier now that the base image grew the necessary methods. It's more about flexibility than comfort, in other words).