[Cuis] 'Internals' questions

[Juan Vuletich]

Hi folks,

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On 1/27/2015 1:53 AM, Casey Ransberger wrote:
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>> On Jan 26, 2015, at 6:31 PM, "Phil (list)"<pbpublist at gmail.com>  wrote:
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>> On Mon, 2015-01-26 at 17:05 -0800, Casey Ransberger wrote:
>>>> On Jan 26, 2015, at 9:13 AM, "Phil (list)"<pbpublist at gmail.com>  wrote:
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>>>> Now if I could only stop forgetting that the Smalltalk object exists...
>>> There are no objects, really. As a matter of fact, it's all just technical theatre:D
>> lol.. you mean it's not turtles all the way down?
> No, it isn't. It's imaginary turtles all the way down, and that's how I fell in love!
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>>> Whatcha doin' with FFI?
>> Prototyping a database app idea I have.  I was starting down the path to
>> yet another silly web app in a language I won't mention.  Then realized
>> 'hey, I could probably do a big chunk of this in Smalltalk in a fraction
>> of the time'... if only I could automate the database sync at
>> startup/shutdown.
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>> Probably going to start with SQLite and if everything goes well move
>> over to a multi-user DB down the line.
> Before you spend too much time inventing that, you should know that there's a database interface, not an ORM like... oh whatever that thing was called, but a DB interface that uses FFI and you can make queries with Smalltalk statements. If you google around a bit, you'll find it. I think it might have been called DBX or something like that. Development seems to have shifted to Pharo, but...
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> I suspect it might be more productive to make the existing thing work with Cuis than to invent another thing that does the same job. DB interfaces over FF interfaces are going to be complicated beasts, and likely a lot of work.
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Also, check 
https://github.com/Cuis-Smalltalk/Cuis-Smalltalk-Dev/blob/master/Documentation/OptionalPackagesForCuis.md 
to see what others have been doing, and for opportunities to 
collaborate, etc.

> Anyway, cool to hear about someone with a want to do database stuff with Cuis!
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> Cheers,
>
> Casey

Cheers,
Juan Vuletich