On 24 Dec 2013, at 12:54, Sven Van Caekenberghe <s...@stfx.eu> wrote:
> Hello, > > On 24 Dec 2013, at 00:13, vmusulainen <vmusulai...@mail.ru> wrote: > >> Hi, >> >> I have loaded WebClient from ConfigurationTool on Pharo 2.0. >> It seems something changed at system so I had some issues while loading the >> package and fixed it. I would make my fixes public for community. How do >> it? >> Does exist any guide? >> If I right understand this document >> <http://www.pharo-project.org/community/how-to-contribute> describe >> contrubuting for Pharo and not applicable for 3dparty packages. > > WebClient, like hundreds of others, is indeed a third-party, external package > to Pharo. How are these maintained ? By their authors, and in some cases by > volunteers. You can certainly discuss about these on the mailing lists and > look for help, but you cannot expect the core Pharo community to take > responsibility or to have any kind of obligation to act. > > Now, the original author of WebClient, Andreas Raab, sadly passed away last > year. I see that the repository is readonly: > > http://www.squeaksource.com/WebClient.html > > If you cannot find anyone to give you write access, your only option would be > to fork the code. > > Regards, > > Sven > > PS: I assume you do know that Pharo has out of the box, fully supported, HTTP > client and server functionality standard in the image since 1.3, in the form > of Zinc HTTP Components (ZnClient, ZnServer, ZnEasy) ? yep. why would you want to install webclient when you already has an out-of-the-box and actively maintained solution? > > > -- > Sven Van Caekenberghe > Proudly supporting Pharo > http://pharo.org > http://association.pharo.org > http://consortium.pharo.org > > > > >
