[Cuis] Porting Aida to Cuis

[Janko Mivšek]

Thanks Phil for that info and of course for a port!

We moved further discussion on Cuis-dev list and I hope you'll join there.

Best regards
Janko

Phil B je 25. 05. 20 ob 17:43 napisal:
> Janko,
> 
> I updated German's port up to the 'latest' release (I believe 6.6) 
> available at the time (https://github.com/pbella/Cuis-Smalltalk-Aida) 
> which might make updating a bit easier.
> 
> Thanks,
> Phil
> 
> On Mon, May 25, 2020 at 9:16 AM Janko Mivšek <janko.mivsek at eranova.si 
> <mailto:janko.mivsek at eranova.si>> 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