On Jan 19, 2009, at 8:19 AM, Damien Cassou wrote:
On Sun, Jan 18, 2009 at 9:11 PM, Andreas Raab andreas.raab@gmx.de wrote:
Maybe someone can help me with this. I was trying to put up a reconciled version of Balloon3D into the 3.10 universe and I can't get it to work. Originally there were a bunch of Balloon3D packages registered in universes. Trying to remove them failed as I am not the listed author, so I thought I'll ignore that for the moment and just publish a new version that people can use for testing. No luck - apparently only the owner can post new versions of the package. Okay, so I asked the listed owner if he could remove the packages for me so that I could simply publish the package from scratch. Which he did, but even so, I cannot publish a package by the name "Balloon3" - all I get is an error saying "Error: adding package Balloon3D failed (package is owned by another)".
Any ideas? I'm kinda stuck here.
Only Lex Spoon can control who owns what. I forward him this email.
Is there anyone who can take over hosting the universe server? As important as this area is to me, it doesn't pay the bills, and I have ended up with too much else going on to really maintain the ongoing universe servers. I do take care of them eventually, but I'm lagging 1-3 weeks.
It's a simple server to run if you have an Internet-accessible host. It runs out of a Squeak image, saves its database to disk, and needs to write into a directory that is reachable by HTTP. There's a DNS name that would need to be repointed at your server. The main administrative issue is dealing with resetting ownership like in this case, which currently requires opening some inspectors and hacking around. This would be a good task for anyone wanting experience with Squeak networking, or for anyone who wants to help out the Squeak community.
If anyone wants to take a nibble before committing, take a try at running a completely new server, first. See "Setting up a Local Mixin Universe" at the bottom of this page:
http://wiki.squeak.org/squeak/3785
As a terminology note, Andreas, I'm not sure, but it sounds like you updated the "development" universe, not the 3.10 one. The "3.10" universe is released and is intended to be an unchanging base of future, non-kernel development:
http://lists.squeakfoundation.org/pipermail/squeak-dev/2008-March/127273.htm...
-Lex