Terse Guide Update: One-Click GemTools download available

Terse Guide to the (new) GLASS Tools post has been updated.

Thanks to James, there is a one-click GemTools 2.4 download are two one-click GemTools preview downloads available based on Pharo. Use the 2.3.0 preview with version 2.3.0 of GemStone/S (like the 1.0beta11 appliance) and the 2.3.1 preview with version 2.3.1 of GemStone/S. [Updated 4/10/2009: see Version Mismatch (preview) for details]

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Photo by Steve Wampler (Creative Commons).

Terse Guide to the (new) GLASS Tools

[Update 6/5/2010] For the latest GemTools 1.0-beta.6 documentation see  the GemTools Guide on the glassdb wiki.

This post started out as a beta update post, but as I added more and more material I realized that it deserved to be a reincarnation of the Terse Guide to the GLASS Tools. It’s been a year since I wrote the original Terse Guide and there have been significant changes to the whole GLASS tool set, so a new version has been long overdue. However, I do have an announcement post to finish (and it depends upon the information in the Terse Guide), so rather than delay the announcement of the preview release, I decided to publish the Terse Guide before it was complete.

I have completed all of the sections that describe the new functionality of the GemTools Launcher, including a section on installing the GemTools Client in a fresh image. Over the next week, I plan to finish the Terse Guide.

Over time as new features are added I intend to revisit and revise this post. To that end, I’ve created a little update section, where I’ll record information about the updates I make over time:

• current as of GemStone-dkh.441 and GLASS.230-dkh.209 (March 12, 2009)
• one-click GemTools download available, based on Pharo0.1 update 10243 (March 22, 2009)
• Process Browser section updated as of GemStone-dkh.465 and GLASS.230-dkh.228 – Philippe how do you like the fonts? (April 14, 2009)

All of the screen shots in this post were taken using a Pharo image. The GemTools Client runs in both Squeak and Pharo images (see Installation and Update Steps for instructions on setting up an image).

You can click on the screen shots in this post to see full size images.