DVS (thanks!) & SqueakMap thoughts

Stephane Ducasse ducasse at iam.unibe.ch
Wed Nov 20 18:34:25 UTC 2002


Hi

I agree with daniel. I think that configurations should be a place that 
analysis tools can use
for checking dependencies and other cycle. If you have that in plain 
code this will be difficult.

Stef
On mercredi, novembre 20, 2002, at 09:33  am, danielv at netvision.net.il 
wrote:

> Actually the idea of configurations (sets of package to load) is
> definitely part of Goran roadmap (He's written about it on the list
> before).
>
> I think it'll probably turn out both pretty simple, and very, very
> useful.
>
> One small problem with using scripts is composition - how do you handle
> a script that loads two scripts, that have a shared requirement? with
> scripts, you load it twice. Configurations should handle that better.
>
> Daniel
>
> Stephen Pair <spair at acm.org> wrote:
>> Good...it sounds like the simplest thing that could possibly work.  
>> It's
>> important I think to keep these things nicely separated from packages 
>> (as
>> they have the potential to grow permutationally with the number of
>> packages).
>>
>> - Stephen
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: squeak-dev-admin at lists.squeakfoundation.org
>> [mailto:squeak-dev-admin at lists.squeakfoundation.org]On Behalf Of Ned
>> Konz
>> Sent: Tuesday, November 19, 2002 10:03 PM
>> To: squeak-dev at lists.squeakfoundation.org
>> Subject: Re: DVS (thanks!) & SqueakMap thoughts
>>
>>
>> On Tuesday 19 November 2002 07:05 pm, Stephen Pair wrote:
>>
>>> Sure, but what I would like is to be able to put the various
>>> packages on SqueakMap separately and then have "bundles" that are
>>> essentially just scripts that load a set of packages in a specific
>>> order.
>>
>> That should be easy to do with plain ST fileins. The SqueakMap API
>> lets you download and install packages easily. We've discussed doing
>> this before to make 'image configurations' of various kinds that load
>> a number of different packages in order.
>>
>>>  It would also be nice if SqueakMap would let me
>>> categorize these things separately from reqular packages.
>>
>> It should be possible to add a "package format" category for these.
>>
>> --
>> Ned Konz
>> http://bike-nomad.com
>> GPG key ID: BEEA7EFE
>
>
Dr. Stéphane DUCASSE (ducasse at iam.unibe.ch) 
http://www.iam.unibe.ch/~ducasse/
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