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# Brea
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A simple dynamic distributed web site generator for public & open data, combining:
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- **Backend**: [Fossil][fossil] for resilient and distributed storage of information .
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- **Front-end**:
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- [Material Design Lite][mdl]: for responsive, beauty and mobile friendly web user interface.
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- [Mustache][mustache]: a logic-less HTML template system to inject data into web interfaces.
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- [Markdeep][markdeep]: for agile and structured light documentation.
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- **Middleware**: [Teapot][teapot]: for defining behavior, data models and connecting front-end and backend.
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This is the [documentation and issues repository][brea-fossil].
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The [source code repository](http://smalltalkhub.com/#!/~Offray/Brea) is hosted in SmalltalkHub.
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To start run this code from [Pharo](http://pharo.org/) 6.1:
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```
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Metacello new
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smalltalkhubUser: 'Offray' project: 'Brea';
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configuration: 'Brea';
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load.
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```
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For further instructions and documentation the recommended way to proceed is by downloading, reading and executing
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the [Brea Grafoscopio interactive notebook](./doc/tip/brea.ston)
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(you will need to have [Grafoscopio][grafoscopio:en] installed and to know how to use it).
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The name came out as part of a friends joke, talking about how [brea][w:brea] ([pitch][w:pitch])
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allows the easy creation and preservation of fossils. This is the current incarnation of an
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old project prototyped with the excellent [web2py][web2py], but this time with the advantages
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of Pharo ecosystem, particularly [live coding][w:live-coding].
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## Why two source code repositories?
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We split the repositories in two because the Fossil powered one is well suited for files and tickets,
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while the SmalltalkHub one is best suited for Smalltalk source code.
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For historical reasons, different Smalltalk communities developed and hosted their source code there,
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which gives them the autonomy of a simple and self-contained DVCS, that was wrote in the language they knew.
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That was before the popularity of DVCS advanced by Git and GitHub, and now most projects are being migrated to
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GitHub to get more visibility and improve collaboration (SmalltalkHub uses an simple optimistic versioning
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system that is showing its age), while sacrificing autonomy, simplicity and self-containment.
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We think that Fossil as a back end could provide the advantages of a modern DVCS, while keeping
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the properties we like to have regarding autonomy, simplicity and self-containment.
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At some point we hope that the work is being done in the Git/GitHub front to migrate
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source code from Smalltalk would be useful to host a single Fossil repository containing
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software and documentation (and issues for both).
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Meanwhile, we will split them in the ones mentioned before.
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[brea-fossil]: http://mutabit.com/repos.fossil/brea/home
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[fossil]: http://fossil-scm.org/
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[grafoscopio:en]: http://mutabit.com/grafoscopio/index.en.html
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[markdeep]: https://casual-effects.com/markdeep/
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[mdl]: https://getmdl.io/
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[mustache]: http://mustache.github.io/
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[teapot]: http://smalltalkhub.com/#!/~zeroflag/Teapot
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[w:brea]: https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brea
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[w:live-coding]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Live_coding
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[w:pitch]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pitch_(resin)
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[web2py]: http://web2py.com/
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