basic vs full image

Frank Shearar Frank.Shearar at rnid.org.uk
Tue Dec 14 16:17:10 UTC 2004


goran.krampe at bluefish.se <goran.krampe at bluefish.se> wrote:
> 
> =?ISO-8859-1?Q?st=E9phane_ducasse?= <ducasse at iam.unibe.ch> wrote:
> > Hi goran
> > 
> > I do not remeber the historical reason :) May be this was 
> just that we 
> > were fedup sending emails around.
> > and publishing on SqueakSource is so simple and cool to work 
> > distributely that we put it there.
> > 
> > But we published the version of the script we used in SqueakSource 
> > (FullImage).
> 
> But... I want it to be on SM. Otherwise people can't load it 
> into Basic!
> :)

I'd suggest that maintainers try to put their packages on SM when they release new versions. Otherwise, you have the package entry pointing to server Foo and when Foo's down noone can install your package. At least if the SM server/s go down you can't do anything anyway, so if you have your released code on the SM server/s you only have a single point of failure.

I feel fairly strongly about this having run into problems when I last released BFAV - SqueakSource had problems, and I so couldn't install BFAV to test it because the package info had a SqueakSource URL rather than a local (to SM) URL.

frank


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