Am 28.09.2009 um 07:52 schrieb Colin Putney:
At first I had tried only loading OB-Umbrella which did not work. Wouldn't it be the best - as in least confusing - way to just load a package named OmniBrowser from the repository source.wiresong.ca/ ob?
Well, yes, that would certainly be less confusing. But OB is divided in to multiple packages for good reason. It's important to be able to load some of the packages but not all of them. It would be nice if the umbrella package were called OmniBrowser, but for historical reasons, a package with that name already exists. If we rename it, we loose the ability to merge the existing branches.
Ah, ok. That is a great example why I think a first class renaming operation is so important for a VCS - instead of just removing and adding. Good names are so important that nothing should stand in the way of improving them. We talked about that in Toronto IIRC. Of course I know this is a very difficult feature to implement. Is there any chance MC2 will support it?
Maybe it would be an improvement to rename OB-Umbrella to OmniBrowserFull or OmniBrowserDevelopment, assuming that there are not many branches of OB-Umbrella to be merged?
I'm sorry it wasn't immediately obvious how to set up an OmniBrowser development environment, but it's not actually that hard, and it will get easier as we refine the development and release procedures.
Hey, no need to feel sorry! I am always finding hair in a soup. ;-) Thanks for all your effort and for the release!!!
Cheers, Bernhard