[ANN] DVS rev. 1.28

danielv at netvision.net.il danielv at netvision.net.il
Fri Oct 18 11:24:11 UTC 2002


A few small things -
1. It seems to open the PackagePanel when it comes up. It has five
buttons, and it's not quite clear what they mean, or what exactly is
shown in the list below, and how I add/remove things from it.

In short, a help menu item/balloon help would be useful.

2. SqueakMap still shown the current version as 1.28 - yes Goran and I
need to make a nice simple integrated way to publish updated versions
from within Squeak.

3. Looking at the PackagePanel, it also seems to support loading
packages. How does it relate/differ from the SqueakMap browser or 
loader? when does one use it?

If as it seems, it finds the packages in the image, it's sort of useless
for loading new packages, isn't it? maybe I don't quite get the point
here...

4. The PackagePanel seems to get it's list from the PackageInfo
subclasses. Shouldn't it actually use all instances, for packages that
don't define a custom subclass?

5. I don't .. ah. Took me a couple of seconds to recognize why
PackagesInfo is a subclass of PackageInfo, but doesn't seem to be a
composite pattern... :-)

Daniel

Avi Bryant <avi at beta4.com> wrote:
> 
> 
> On Thu, 17 Oct 2002 danielv at netvision.net.il wrote:
> 
> > Excellent...
> >
> > Will have a peek.
> >
> > Note to all - if you have SqueakMap and some package loader, you can
> > choose this off a list, click a button, and try it out. (hint, hint)
> 
> Ah yes, I should have added that to the list of ways of getting it.  From
> now on whenever I post an announcement I'll just say, "Available from
> SqueakMap" ;).
> 
> Incidentally, there was a small bug in 1.28 when loading packages through
> the UI - 1.29 is now posted.
> 
> Cheers,
> Avi



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