A final reminder: the next meeting of the Toronto Smalltalk User
Group will be TODAY, Wednesday, June 8 at 6:30.
The meeting will be on the 42nd floor (not the 47th, as in the
past) of the Bay Wellington tower, 181 Bay Street (Bay &
Wellington, the north tower). When you step out of the elevator, go
left, then left again. We're at the end of the hall. Look for the
'Northwater' sign.
Our web site is still down. We're still correcting a
registration error... and the paperwork is a nightmare.
Jean-Luc Roche will talk about his experience in France...
The "Mutuelles du Mans", one of the two big Smalltalk users in
France, developed all their corporate software with VisualWorks
v2.5 in the early 90's. They never took the time to keep up to date
with new Smalltak releases and, by 2002, they were faced with the
rather daunting task to port all their applications to VisualWorks
v7.
The most challenging aspect of the project was arguably to
migrate the environment development to StORE, the SQL-based
repository that ships with VW v7 and replaces ENVY. I propose to
take a look at the porting strategy we used, to describe the
difficulties we met and, in that process, to explore the
differences between ENVY and StORE.
Bob Nemec
Toronto Smalltalk User Group
www.smalltalk.toronto.on.ca
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