Packages listed as compatible with the current alpha (was Re: [Q]
starting seaside in 3.6)
Doug Way
dway at riskmetrics.com
Thu Jul 17 22:03:27 UTC 2003
Martin Drautzburg wrote:
>Avi Bryant <avi at beta4.com> writes:
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>>Comanche doesn't work under 3.6 yet.
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>Well that explains it. Shouldn't 3.6 then NOT be listed in the package
>loader ?
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This is a general problem with listing a package as being compatible
with an alpha release. Comanche was compatible with 3.6alpha early on
(and its SqueakMap entry was probably set at that time), but as a bunch
of stuff changed in 3.6alpha, it became incompatible.
This image-version compatibility field for packages will eventually
become less important as we move toward a dependency scheme built on
SqueakMap 1.1 (w/package releases).
Also, Daniel turned off the "display only packages for current version"
filter in the latest SMLoader, so from now on, packages probably
shouldn't list themselves as being compatible with the current alpha
image at least until it moves to beta. (Previously one was motivated to
list a package as compatible so that it would show up in the filtered list.)
- Doug Way
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