[Seaside-dev] Detecting installed Seaside versions?

[Dale Henrichs]

----- "Lukas Renggli" <renggli at gmail.com> wrote:

| This is why I maintain my own read-only repository for the various
| tools that I always use (OB, Shout, eCompletion, Refactoring Engine).
| Like this I can select the package versions that work for me (I don't
| necessarily want the latest code all the time, but a version that I
| trust to work) and I can even patch some packages to my likings (for
| example, I use a custom color scheme for Shout). This allows me to
| load the "latest" code from my repository and I can be sure that
| everything works as expected, even when the original repository
| disappears, moves or changes. The Gofer script figures out the right
| load order and can even update existing images, so loading and
| updating becomes a matter of dragging the load script over an image.

Simply put, Metacello is trying to simulate your read-only repository, without requiring the creation of a bunch of read-only repositories:)

Dale