> I posted this on c.l.s, but for those of who you may not read it...
> 
> On 23 Aug 2000, Cees de Groot wrote:
>
>> Well-organized open source code can do a lot for a language. Perl has
>
>> CPAN. Python interest soared since Zope. I've done a lot of browsing
>> on the web, but the bits of Smalltalk open source that you can find
>> mostly are collected together as change sets on an FTP server. Today,
>
>> someone who is interested expects more.
>
> This would definately be something worthwhile, and not too hard to set
> up.
> In Squeak, there are update servers.  I've not looked into the framework
> for it, but I don't suppose it'd be hard to adapt (perhaps it can
> already)
> the Update Server and put a little package browser in the Squeak image
> that would show the changesets available on the Update Server, organized
> into categories, with a little description for each changeset.  Uploads
> could be similar to an FTP site. where you stick it in an /incoming
> folder, and the admin puts it where it belongs.
>
> I would be willing to try and implement this if someone has a machine
> with a permanent 'net connection that it could sit on.

Yup, we have exactly the machine here. Just let us know what you want and we
can set it up (well, if it is possible anyway :) ).


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