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Hoi all–

Context is the umbrella project for Naiad (a distributed module system for all Smalltalks), Spoon (a minimal object memory that provides the starting point for Naiad), and Lightning (a remote-messaging framework which performs live serialization, used by Naiad for moving methods and other objects between systems). I intend for it to be a future release of Squeak, and a launcher and module system for all the other Smalltalks. I’m writing Context apps for cloud computing, web services, and distributed computation.

Commits b7676ba2cc and later of the Context git repo have:

• Support for installable object memories as git submodule repos.
• Submodule repos for memories for each of the known Smalltalk dialects, with Naiad support pre-loaded. I’m currently working on the submodules for Squeak and Pharo.
• A web-browser-based console for launching and managing object memories.
• A WebDAV-based virtual filesystem that enables Smalltalk to appear as a network-attached storage device, and mappings of the system to that filesystem that make Smalltalk accessible from external text editors (e.g., for editing code, managing processes and object memories).
• Remote code and process browsers.

There’s a live discussion site and a mailing list. The newsgroup is gmane.comp.lang.smalltalk.squeak.context.

Thanks for checking it out!

Craig

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