On Thursday, March 6, 2003, at 09:57  AM, Brent Vukmer wrote:

> Colin --
>
> I don't think that's an argument for not registering 
> packages-that-aren't-quite-packages-yet.  Instead, it's an argument to 
> enhance PackageLoader so that if filters the list to hide PTAQPY's by 
> default.

Ok, so then we'd have a package in the SM database that's neither 
installable nor visible in the list. How does that help us?

Now, I love SqueakMap as much as the next guy. But let's not go 
overboard here. SM is a catalog for packages that are not in the image. 
It provides a way to easily find and load these packages. It's *not* a 
registry of Squeak development efforts. That's what the Swiki is for.

A package should be registered on SqueakMap when it can be downloaded 
and installed into the image. What's the rush? The KCP may not produce 
a separately loadable package. It *is* the kernel we're talking about 
after all. Or it may produce several packages, that break various bits 
of functionality out of the kernel. We don't know yet.

Colin

Colin Putney
Whistler.com