Hi Göran,

Yes, all of this _could_ be done. Now how high on your priority list is it?
;-) I'd be willing to hack up the simple solution right away but doing all
of what you describe properly sounds a little more than I want to sign up
for.

Cheers,
  - Andreas

> -----Original Message-----
> From: squeak-dev-bounces at lists.squeakfoundation.org 
> [mailto:squeak-dev-bounces at lists.squeakfoundation.org] On 
> Behalf Of goran.krampe at bluefish.se
> Sent: Wednesday, July 30, 2003 2:27 AM
> To: The general-purpose Squeak developers list
> Subject: RE: Effective SM entries (was Proposal for 
> Morphicperformance-measurement enhancement)
> 
> 
> "Andreas Raab" <andreas.raab at gmx.de> wrote:
> > Hi Göran,
> > 
> > I think you missed the point of the proposal which was to 
> use a Swiki entry.
> 
> Eh, well, I am not sure what you mean. I agree that a Swiki 
> entry is not
> very good.
> 
> > I'm sure the SM cache won't mirror the Swiki, would it? ;-) 
> And yes, let's
> 
> No, of course not. What I meant was that we can "attach" resources
> reachable by URL to package releases (or packages). Those 
> resources will
> be managed by the cache.
> 
> Then we can easily add a nice little hierarchical menu perhaps looking
> like:
> 
> SharedStreams 1.0
> 	Tutorial
> Seaside 2.123
> 	Tutorial
> 	Quickstart
> 
> etc. Just select Seaside->Tutorial and wham, up comes the resource -
> which could be a Squeak Project or just a textfile or 
> whatever. From the
> cache if available, otherwise from the net (SM master mirror 
> or original
> URL).
> 
> - It is not in the image taking up place.
> - It is properly cached for offline access and preloading (suck it all
> down why don't ya!)
> - It is easily categorized using SM categories (Tutorial, Quickstart
> etc) making it easy to construct UIs like the hierarchical little menu
> above.
> - It is kept updated by simply updating the map.
> 
> > fix the UI thing - how about just making it so when we select "show
> > installed packages" we actually _see_ the installed packages.
> 
> Sure. Or we could make a top level menu entry in the World menu:
> 
> installed packages...
> 
> That gives you the menu I describe above (including version names).
>  
> > Cheers,
> >   - Andreas
> 
> regards, Göran
> 
> PS. All this is similar to what I wrote about the Magic Book a while
> ago. SM acts like a big always up to date TOC.
>