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

[Igor Stasenko]

2009/7/8 Andreas Raab <andreas.raab at gmx.de>:
> Igor Stasenko wrote:
>>
>> 2009/7/8 Andreas Raab <andreas.raab at gmx.de>:
>>>
>>> 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"
>>> ).
>>>
>> This is good & simple up to the point, when the upstream updates (say
>> 3.11)
>> going into conflict either with Seaside29
>> or MyStuff and breaking everything,  while most/rest of them is not.
>>
>> So, by mentioning 'clever tools' i meant a more clever update process,
>> which can be expressed in a form:
>>
>> UpdatesFrom:  'http://source.squeak.org/Squeak311'  revisedUnder: (
>>  UpdatesFrom: 'http://squeaksource.com/Seaside29'  revisedUnder: (
>>    UpdatesFrom: 'http://squeaksource.com/MyStuff' )) install
>
> I think that the closest we can come in practice to such behavior is
> merging. Since the MCM updates are merges, you get that precise behavior
> when using multiple repositories. In other words, if there were a conflict
> in the updates to 3.11 and Seaside 2.9 the update process would open a merge
> browser and leave it to you to decide what exactly you want to do with it.
>

Yes, but at this point you are already failed. Because you turned
something as simple as clicking an 'update' button
into an engineering task for end user.

Cheers :)

> Cheers,
>  - Andreas
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Best regards,
Igor Stasenko AKA sig.