[Seaside-dev] versioning

[Johan Brichau]

Hi John,

In Metacello, the ConfigurationOf is just a Smalltalk class and the versions are defined as just methods, so nothing prohibits anybody from changing a 'released' version.

Maybe the tools that allow to manipulate the configuration (MetacelloToolbox, ...) have some protection built-in, but then the way we organized the version methods in the Seaside configuration do not work well with these tools.

So, we can only rely on the convention that a published version should not be changed (except for bugfixes to the configuration itself). Only versions tagged as #development can have the package versions changed. Maybe I should add this to the developer guidelines ;-)

Johan


On 18 Mar 2014, at 15:02, John O'Keefe <wembley at instantiations.com> wrote:

> Is there any way to lock down a version in Metacello so this can't happen? This would seem to be a critical capability of a version control system.
> 
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> On Tue, Mar 18, 2014 at 9:26 AM, Philippe Marschall <philippe.marschall at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Mon, Mar 17, 2014 at 5:48 PM, Johan Brichau <johan at inceptive.be> wrote:
> > In any case, I also want to suggest to release version 3.1.1 by the end of the month.
> >
> > There are a good number of bugfixes and improvements [1], the jQuery binding got upgraded and the Gemstone port has just a few dangling items I can probably fix by then.
> >
> > Philippe, I think it would be good to also have the 'change' to JSON canvas in there [2]. What do you think?
> > I have been writing a number of integrations that use the new JSON canvas and I think the 'new' behaviour is definitely more appropriate. I also believe it's backwards compatible but I will check and let you know.
> 
> Sounds like a plan.
> 
> Cheers
> Philippe
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