i'm new to pier and seaside. the wiki and seaside
looks great. what
i find really painful is the way you install and run seaside and
pier in squeak.
Painful? There is a one-click installer on SqueakMap that provides
automatically loads all the requirements to run Pier. I will soon
provide a similar one-click installation for Seaside, as discussed at
Smalltalk Solutions, unfortunately that had to wait because I was
busy finishing my Master Thesis.
how do i easily install pier on a server in a shell
(without a GUI)?
You copy a ready image, that you created on a desktop machine, to the
server. This is what we are doing for most of our applications.
The nature of Smalltalk allows one to interact, e.g. update code, fix
problems, load plugins, with the application while it is running.
There is usually no need to have a down-time or to setup a second
server to take over while doing maintenance work. It is possible to
run Squeak without a graphical user interface though, however this
will take away a lot of power from the environment. If you server
doesn't allow to have a graphical user interface it is also possible
to install a VNC server in your image so you can interact like that.
Cheers,
Lukas
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Lukas Renggli
http://www.lukas-renggli.ch