hi!
I'm totally new to smalltalk, although I've heard of it since a lot of time
ago.
In my arch linux installation, I've found some dificulties running squeak,
so I went into pharo once I've discovered they are two free implementations
of smalltalk.
Then I wondered myself, How can I do now to put moose into here ? And then
I saw that by selecting the proper text in one of the default windows that
pharo opens for me, I could have moose (and other subsystems) installed in
the image I'm workin on. So I did.
I've found myself pretty impressed at the ease by which the subsystems get
installed. I started installing one of the web development systems, and I
got thru the whole automated process without any problems.
Then I evaluated the code that installs moose. It started running, and run
a lot without a problem too. But at some point, some missing methods poped
up a window in which I'm asked what to do. At the firsts of them, I put
'proceed' (because I wouldn't abandon, nor debug because I woudn't know
what to do), and it proceeded. At some later pop up errors, I was offered a
fourth option namely 'create', I did, and put the method I was asked to put
somewhere in systembase or some similar name (I can be more precise if
needed or asked to), then a code that showed a 'to be implemented' dummy
method or something, and then again, asked to proceed, and and did this
process a number of times, until I realized that there were many of them,
and I abadoned. And went here, asking for some kind help of you.
I could insist with squeak if that would do better, or go Cuis
alternatively (but from what I've read, maybe Cuis would not fit).
I've also read that pharo support from moose is in some development phase.
Is that true? So if I'm a beginner I should try it until it's ready.
I'm interested in moose mainly, and derived from this, in smalltalk and in
any of its free versions if they work.
Any hint is welcome.
cheers
Haroldo