A public Store Repository is now available for group projects, code sharing, and donations. We are interested in receiving any and all feedback on the repository and the Store source management tools for VisualWorks.

Details
The public repository uses a PostgreSQL database. To access it from VisualWorks, you will need to load the StoreForPostgreSQL parcel, shipped with the standard distribution. This contains the PostgreSQL libraries, and also loads Store automatically. This parcel can be found in the Developer Tools or Store Tools categories in the Parcel Manager, and is located in the goodies/other directory. The parcel contains the EXDI and Store connection that Bruce Badger (thanks Bruce!!!) has made available.

Obtaining Access
For read access you can login as a guest. For write access you'll need to register for a login ID. To register, send an email request to James Robertson, the Cincom Smalltalk Product Evangelist.

Please send any and all comments about the access or the repository to James Robertson.

See how to connect

Connecting to the Repository as Guest
To get read-only access to the repository, create an access profile as follows:

Interface	PostgreSQLEXDIConnection
Environment	store.cincomsmalltalk.com:5432_store_public
User Name	guest
Password	guest
Table Owner	BERN

Repository Contents
Packages in the database are described on the Public repository contents page page.

Once you have access, you might want to use a tool like BottomFeeder to subscribe to the Public Store RSS Feed

Alan Knight has implemented a basic google search over the public repository here. You can also read his blog post describing it.

Troubleshooting
Follow this link for some Proxy Server suggestions

If you have a store account, but cannot connect any more you are probably trying to use the old server. Check your environment string, it should read: 'store.cincomsmalltalk.com:5432_store_public'.

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James A. Robertson
Product Manager (Smalltalk), Cincom
jarober@gmail.com
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