Esteban, Thanks a lot for this, it really is a great (and much needed) resource!
Phil On Sun, May 29, 2016 at 8:27 PM, Esteban A. Maringolo <emaring...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hello all, > > During the first part of the year, and sponsored by the Pharo > Consortium, I started a new port of Glorp, the Object-Relational > mapper, based on the latest version available in VW 8.0.1. > > This latest port was done from scratch in Pharo and brings features > and bugfixes that were accumulated in the VW port during more than 5 > years (previous Pharo port) and weren't available until now; and it > uses the Garage database drivers (but not limited to them). > > During the last couple of months, and also by request of the > Consortium, I wrote a chapter for one of the Pharo books describing > Glorp as much as possible, with tutorials and key concepts. The > chapter ended up being the longest in text and pages of all written; > the domain is so broad and deep that I'm considering taking it to a > whole book, who knows... > > The book is available at > < > https://ci.inria.fr/pharo-contribution/job/PharoBookWorkInProgress/lastSuccessfulBuild/artifact/book-result/Glorp/Glorp.pdf > >, > and I will welcome suggestions and corrections as pull requests to > <https://github.com/SquareBracketAssociates/PharoInProgress> > > The Glorp repository is the same as the previous one > (http://www.smalltalkhub.com/#!/~DBXTalk/Glorp), and the current > Metacello configs will load the previous version for Pharo 4 and the > new version for Pharo 5. For the foreseeable future I'll continue > maintaining Glorp, but the code is MIT and I'm open to contributions > (I'll set up a Github repo in the next days). > > Also I've been running production software based on Glorp for a few > years now, so my experience with it cover most of its features and > usage patterns, so if you have particular questions not covered by the > book chapter or any other material feel free to ask me, this mailing > list or to the Glorp mailing list at <glorp-gr...@googlegroups.com>. > > Best regards! > > Esteban A. Maringolo > > >
