Torsten.Bergmann at phaidros.com wrote:
> >BUT as you can see we can't
> >specify *which version* of the packages since we don't have package
> >releases in SM yet so... Well, you get the point. But it's coming!
> 
> Great - I wanted to discuss this in a new thread. Nice to see
> that it's already underway. 
> Thanks again for all the work you are doing !!!

Just a pleasure. Unfortunately I have had a hard time finding time the
last few months.
Often I just try to keep up on the list since I somehow think that is
one of my most important duties as a Guide.

> Since SqueakMap is a generic registration service I can imagine
> lots of Squeak services building on top of it later. 
> (Registration of tutorials, desktop themes, wallpapers, ...)

Exactemente. The next version 1.1 is moving a little bit further in this
area.

> Unfortunately Squeak lacks some concepts I like in Smallscript:  Module,
> Namespaces for classes and selector namespaces. With this it 
> would even be possible to have two versions of a class in one
> image. Currently Squeak breaks if you try to load nearly all 
> packages since most of them will have conflicts.

Well, we are all aware of this *but* we are moving one step at a time.
The 3.3alpha with Modules tried to introduce namespaces etc but it died
a horrible death. This time we are making sure that everything we
introduce can really be used from the start. And frankly, I think we can
get a long way simply by getting package releases (versions of packages)
and the dependency model that we are planning on top of that.

And yeah, Stephen Pair have done quite a few experiments with selector
spaces. We will see.

> Bye
> Torsten

regards, Göran