[Release] Philosophical Discussion - The updates button is useless - discuss

[Andreas Raab]

Igor Stasenko wrote:
> Now think, a third party maintains own set of mutated stuff, based on
> 3.12 + extra stuff.
> Obviously a user of such image , by pressing an 'update' button wants
> to get an update in 3.12 branch + extra stuff updates.
> What you think, is such approach makes sense?

To be honest, I think it doesn't make too much sense, but it is very 
easy to support. Currently the update button in trunk is hooked up via:

MCMCMUpdater updateFromRepositories: #(
   'http://source.squeak.org/trunk'
).

There are two trivial ways to extend this. First is provide a list of 
repositories that you'd like to update from:

MCMCMUpdater updateFromRepositories: #(
   'http://source.squeak.org/Squeak311' "fixes released for 3.11"
   'http://squeaksource.com/Seaside29'  "current Seaside 2.9 updates"
   'http://squeaksource.com/MyStuff'    "and whatever else"
).

Second, we could mark repositories directly in MC (i.e., "include in 
updates") and/or offer a menu option that just says "update from 
repository".

Cheers,
   - Andreas