[Help-smalltalk] Re: [PATCH] first attempts at loading Seaside into GNU Smalltalk

[Markus Fritsche]

Paolo Bonzini wrote:
> I tried to load seaside into GST.  This was meant more as a stress test 
> than a porting attempt.  Indeed I had a few problems (mostly my bugs, 
> such as having more than 64 items in Undeclared and causing it to grow). 
>   It also reproduced the 2.95b x86-64 failures on my machine too, so I 
> fixed them (they were introduced by the copy-on-write patches from last 
> December).

I don't wand to FUD, but... well, I once was curious if gst would be 
capable of loading seaside. That was when I started to make the 
continuation tests work, which were working fine, even without me having 
a good idea how I managed to. I was quite confident that the whole 
system would work, if somebody contributes a couple of days to it. But 
then...

Well, it involves (from my point of view, not really knowing what I did 
that time) that there's a not a lot of code to be added, but many 
different "small get-theres", which, for my experiments, I copied from 
squeak. It worked, but I wasn't sure if there were license issues.

So, to put the long story short: to make seaside work on gst, one have 
to implement the glue code by ones own, not "copying" the stuff from 
squeak, right? Or am I completely wrong?

Once again, I don't want to interfere - just want to know if that would 
be a manageable project for my vacation or not ;)

Kind regards,

Markus