[Cuis-dev] Porting Aida to Cuis

[Juan Vuletich]

This is very nice. Thanks Janko!

Cuis people with interest in web applications, this is your time!

Cheers,

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On 5/25/2020 12:33 PM, Janko Mivšek via Cuis-dev wrote:
> Hi guys,
>
> I'd like to port just released Aida/Web 6.8 to Cuis, which looks quite 
> a nice Smalltalk (congrats to Juan and other contributors).
>
> But I'm short of time. It would help me a lot if someone just load 
> SPort, Swazoo and Aida to Cuis from a SqueakSource, then I can try to 
> investigate any problems. At the end you can help me again publishing 
> the Cuis way. But if someone do a whole port by yourself, even better.
>
> There is a port done by German, which can help solve any differences 
> between Squeak and Cuis needed to run Aida. There is also SPort 
> portability layer as a prerequisite already ported.
>
> From the announcement on Squeak mailing list:
>
> Dear Squeakers,
>
> Aida got recently a development push and together with improvements 
> over several years it is now a time for a new release.
>
> Main effort was put on realtime and Single-Page Applications (SPA) to 
> be prepared for a forthcoming decade of web development. A dependency 
> mechanism was introduced for domain objects to announce its changes 
> easily. Web apps can subscribe to changes and update elements of a web 
> page accordingly.
>
> Multitab support is another improvement to mention, also many minor 
> ones and patches, more in https://www.aidaweb.si/release-notes-6.8
>
> To install on Squeak (tested on latest 5.3 64bit):
>
> i := Installer monticello http: 'http://squeaksource.com'.
> i  project: 'SPort';
>    install: 'Sport-2.031'.
> i  project: 'Swazoo';
>    install: 'Swazoo-2.4final.2'.
> i  project: 'Aida';
>    install: 'Aida-6.8final.2'.
>
> .. then open http://localhost:8888 .
>
> Aida/Web is a Smalltalk web framework for building dynamic web 
> applications the Smalltalk way. From classical to single-page web 
> apps, on high-level so that building web apps becomes a joy, not a 
> hassle!
> https://www.aidaweb.si
>
> Best regards
> Janko
>
>