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Shortly after I announced the GemTools Client for Pharo, Gerhard Obermann jumped in and refactored a number of the GemTools menus using sub menus. Unfortunately, I got involved in a number of other tasks (including refining the Metacello API) before I could push his changes out. Now that Metacello is stabilized, it is time to revisit the installation and update procedures for the GemTools Client.

[Update 10/16/2009: fixed egregious errors in the installation instructions … 2 steps and the first step was plain wrong:) … thanks Gerhard]

[Update 11/04/2009] Please see the GemTools Client 1.0-beta.1 post for up-to-date instructions.

Installation

[Update 11/04/2009] Please see the GemTools Client 1.0-beta.1 post for up-to-date instructions.

If you haven’t already been using the GemTools 2.3.1 Preview for all platforms (which is based on Pharo), then you should download the preview GemTools client and follow the instructions for setting up your session to verify that you can connect to your stone. You’ll need the session information and the gci files from the Preview to get things running with the either Squeak or Pharo.

I’ve tested the installation procedure using Squeak3.10.2-Trunk-090912 and pharo1.0-10470-BETAdev09.10.2.

To load GemTools into a client image:

  1. Load the latest version of the GemTools-Configuration package  from http://seaside.gemstone.com/ss/GLASSClient. GemTools-Configuraton-dkh.12 is currently the most recent version.
  2. Execute the following expression in a workspace: 
    GemToolsConfiguration loadLatestVersion.
  3. Execute the following expression to open the GemTools launcher: 
    OGLauncher open
  4. Copy the session information from your old GemTools Client to the new GemTools Client in your image. Use the Edit session menu item on the Session Menu in the launchers.
  5. Save the image.
  6. Copy the gci files (gciForWindows.dll, gciForLinux.so, and gciForMacintosh.so) from GemTools-2.3.1-preview.app/Contents/Resources in the one-click into the directory containing your image and changes files.
  7. Press the Login button on the GemTools Launcher and you should be in business.

Last December when I first introduced the GemTools Launcher, it took 6 steps to install the GemTools Client code:

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In July I announced the GemTools Client for Pharo (based on version 0.9 of Metacello), it took 4 steps:

installSteps2

Today it takes only 2 steps:

installSteps3

The configuration class bootstraps Gofer and Metacello, then loads FFI and finally loads the OGLauncher application code. Danged close to a one-click install:)

Update

To update the GemTools Client to a later version, you can follow the instructions for the Update…menu.

If you have any trouble join and send mail to the GLASS Beta Mailing List.

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[1]Photo by Okinawa Soba (Creative Commons).