Isaiah Perumalla has a good post where he answers the question “Why GemStone/S?“:
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November 22, 2008 at 11:12 am
Hooscow
I’d really like to try out GLASS and Gemstone/S, but the start-up effort seems so formidable. Even squeak appeared very intimidating and forbidding until adequate documentation and tutorials appeared on the scene.
To garner a wider audience for Gemstone/S, would Gemstone be willing to put together a “dummy’s guide to Gemstone/S”, with step-by-step instructions and illustrations, along the lines of “Squeak by Example” and “An Introduction to Seaside” at:
http://www.swa.hpi.uni-potsdam.de/seaside/tutorial
In fact, if Gemstone simply adapted “An Introduction to Seaside” and made it into “An Introduction to Seaside with Gemstone/S”, replacing the instructions on downloading and installing Squeak with downloading and using the GLASS appliance, I am certain that it would instantly attract a large following of Smalltalkers and would-be Smalltalkers interested in using Seaside with Gemstone/S rather some external database.
November 22, 2008 at 11:58 am
Dale Henrichs
@Hooscow have you looked at the instructions posted by James Foster in his blog?
I have an index to James’ relevant posts (http://gemstonesoup.wordpress.com/glass-101/#GLASSonSlicehost) for installing GLASS on Slicehost which should be applicable for installing on any *NIX system.
James also has a series of videos at http://vimeo.com/jgfoster/videos/ covering Slicehost installation.
We really appreciate the feedback and realize that with all the moving parts in GemStone/S that getting started is one of the biggest hurdles.
November 22, 2008 at 4:55 pm
Hooscow
Thanks for the pointers. I’ve read the “Terse Guide to Gemstone”, but have yet to view the Slicehost videos. I’ll try to find some time to do that. Nonetheless, I still think that a tutorial along the lines of “An Introduction to Seaside” which shows step-by-step how to get Gemstone/S running, how to connect to it, how to import and save code from it, would be of tremendous benefit to those interested in Gemstone/S.