[Seaside-dev] Grease and Seaside github primary codebase?

[Philippe Marschall]

On Fri, May 26, 2017 at 9:29 AM, Johan Brichau <johan at inceptive.be> wrote:
> Hi guys,
>
> We have been using the Smalltalkhub repository as the primary repository until now.
> The most recent version of Grease (1.3.0) is only on github at this time.
>
> However, I would prefer using the github repos as the main repositories because it supports branching a lot better than MC and it offers the ability for people to fork their own version and pull their changes back in a ‘controlled’ way (i.e. reviewed pull requests).
>
> The work on git for Pharo (Iceberg) is advancing very well. Although not entirely stable at this time, everybody can already use git repos for smalltalk by means of the filetree format in MC.
> We have also been using git repos for Smalltalk in the GemStone/S universe for years now.
>
> Once we start using git for development, we can still copy the packages back to an MC repository, although that’s something I would want to avoid as well.
> I would simply update the ConfigurationOf and have it refer to the github repos for the new versions on the latest platform versions.
>
> What do you all think?

I agree, the configurations are a pain. It would be cool if there was
a short tutorial for noobs like me on how to check out and commit.

Cheers
Philippe