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 (https://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.
July 11, 2012 at 8:21 pm
Kjell Godo
I second the notion that a GemStone for total idiotnix would be good.
But how about this other idea: What if GemStone had various relational databases inside of it implemented in assembler primatives and Smalltalk. Or even graph databases implemented as objects inside of GemStone. Wouldn’t that be wild? You could implement some relational databases of various kinds the right way. That way people wouldn’t feel that any aspect of the word database was being neglected because they were using GemStone.