[Cuis] Choosing an HTTP framework

Germán Arduino garduino at gmail.com
Fri May 25 17:08:07 CDT 2012


Hi:

Indeed WebClient is a great piece of software also. I use it in a
commercial product I developed with Pharo.

I don't know if currently is actively maintained.

About Zinc, I'm complicated with time, but is on my to-do list :)

Cheers.


2012/5/25 Juan Vuletich <juan at jvuletich.org>:
> Hi Folks,
>
> So far we have nice opinions and ongoing work on both Zinc and WebClient.
> There's no reason not to have both.
>
> The relevant packages are:
> https://github.com/garduino/Cuis-Pharo14CompatibilityLayer
> https://github.com/garduino/Cuis-Zinc
>
> https://github.com/davidgraham/Cuis-WebClient
>
> Please keep the ball rolling! I won't be able to dig into this right now. (I
> want to work on Cypress/FileTree). But please keep advancing on these.
>
> Cheers,
> Juan Vuletich
>
>
> David Graham wrote:
>>
>> On 5/23/12 7:40 AM, Juan Vuletich wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>> We need to pick an http framework. It would be best to be compatible with
>>> the most used and best maintained one, and not fork it. I haven't been
>>> following them, so I can't say much. So far, candidates would be Zinc and
>>> WebClient/WebServer. Anyone suggest other options? Germán, Casey, please
>>> answer to this threads with comments on the status of your efforts, links to
>>> code, what you expect to be able to do and how we can do it together.
>>
>>
>> I don't think it'll be much help to say they both look like viable
>> candidates from my perspective. :)  I've used Zinc and liked it; today I
>> downloaded WebClient/WebServer just to take a closer look and endded up
>> getting WebClient>>httpGet: working.  I uploaded the package if anyone wants
>> to take a look:
>> https://github.com/davidgraham/Cuis-WebClient
>>
>> One thing that I would like to see is the ability to download Cuis updates
>> and packages from within the image.  Since github only allows https
>> connections, I packaged Cuis-SecureSocket (SqueakSSL port) to experiment.
>
>
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