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Re: [Help-smalltalk] Re: amd 64 and gnu smalltalk
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Stephen |
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Re: [Help-smalltalk] Re: amd 64 and gnu smalltalk |
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Tue, 06 Jan 2009 00:15:38 +1300 |
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Thunderbird 2.0.0.19 (Macintosh/20081209) |
Though, I don't think that converting all of your Ruby administration
scripts
into GST is a good idea. GST is not as stable as Ruby or does not have
extra
libraries as much as Ruby has etc... Maybe you should first try some
experimental administration scripts and convert the rest if you are
satisfied.
I tested them all on a 32 bit system a couple weeks back and had no issues
but, thanks for the advice.
I've been scripting in GST on Linux (Gentoo and CentOS) and
also Mac OS X for the past year. Prior to that I used Ruby. Most of the
Linux boxen are 32 bit systems, with some 64 bit systems also.
Some of the scripts I've written are at
http://smalltalk.gnu.org/wiki/Examples
There has been the occasional minor bug and Paolo has nailed any issues
pretty quick (outstanding is a bug with the IMAP library which won't
read emails with attachments, and have found an issue with Seaside in
GST on 64 bit systems).
As to Libraries, the main thing I'm missing is an LDAP library which
I've got around calling ldapsearch and ldapmodify. I started writing a
wrapper around the C LDAP API with Paolo's help. What we got done was
working until I got in contact with the developer of the Squeak
LDAPLayer library and decided to port LDAPLayer to GST when I get some
time. ...
(Sometime I plan to document the LDAP API wrapper work we did as it will
probably be helpful to someone to have an example)
Version changes have been friendly, I started when GST was at 2.x and it
is at 3.1 and all my original scripts work with no changes.
I actually started using GST because I wanted to do Seaside programming
in Squeak and had very little spare time in 2008 - using GST was a way
of getting Smalltalk experience in my day job. If I look back, I'd make
the same choice again. I've found GST stable and quick to develop in,
and if something does break, then GST dumps a stack trace with line
numbers which is very helpful.
Regards
Stephen
- [Help-smalltalk] amd 64 and gnu smalltalk, Sean Allen, 2009/01/05
- [Help-smalltalk] Re: amd 64 and gnu smalltalk, Canol Gokel, 2009/01/05
- Re: [Help-smalltalk] Re: amd 64 and gnu smalltalk, Sean Allen, 2009/01/05
- [Help-smalltalk] GNU Smalltalk and unix integration.., Sean Allen, 2009/01/06
- Re: [Help-smalltalk] GNU Smalltalk and unix integration.., Paolo Bonzini, 2009/01/07
- Re: [Help-smalltalk] GNU Smalltalk and unix integration.., Sean Allen, 2009/01/07
- Re: [Help-smalltalk] GNU Smalltalk and unix integration.., Paolo Bonzini, 2009/01/07
- Re: [Help-smalltalk] GNU Smalltalk and unix integration.., Sean Allen, 2009/01/07
- [Help-smalltalk] Re: GNU Smalltalk and unix integration.., Paolo Bonzini, 2009/01/07
- [Help-smalltalk] Re: GNU Smalltalk and unix integration.., Sean Allen, 2009/01/07
- [Help-smalltalk] Re: GNU Smalltalk and unix integration.., Paolo Bonzini, 2009/01/07
- [Help-smalltalk] Re: GNU Smalltalk and unix integration.., Sean Allen, 2009/01/08