| Bob Nemec 2005-06-08, 4:01 pm |
| 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.
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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.
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Bob Nemec
Toronto Smalltalk User Group
www.smalltalk.toronto.on.ca
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