Has anyone bothered to check out SqueakMap?

Göran Hultgren goran.hultgren at bluefish.se
Tue Aug 6 09:50:02 UTC 2002


Hi!

Quoting richard at simula.no:
> goran.hultgren at bluefish.se wrote:
> >  It has some historical reasons, but sure - the documentation for the
> >  design etc can always use more work.
> >  You have to understand though that the developers moving this
> forward
> >  are doing so "one piece at a time" - it's exploratory development
> >  because we just can't see all implications before we have some code.
> >  That is at least my impression.
> 
> This is all good.  Like I said, I think this is the most important task
> for Squeak and those of us who want to do serious research and work
> with
> Squeak are hoping for great benefits to result.  
> 
> I wonder if SqueakMap shouldn't be a bit like a semantic web search
> engine, indexing modules that provide their own metadata.  SqueakMap
> could crawl over the network of module repositories, discovering new
> modules as they are published or updated.

That is indeed EXACTLY what I aim for! When SqueakMap has "settled" a bit I want
to add the package info into the Module itself and have SqueakMap regularly scan
the registered known repositories for new Modules and update the existing ones.

It could also be done upon request.

I just posted more info on SqueakMap at:
http://anakin.bluefish.se:8000/gohu/14

regards, Göran

Göran Hultgren, goran.hultgren at bluefish.se
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