On maintaining a consistent update stream
Bert Freudenberg
bert at impara.de
Sat May 15 12:37:36 UTC 2004
Am 15.05.2004 um 01:59 schrieb Colin Putney:
>
> On May 14, 2004, at 6:10 PM, Doug Way wrote:
>
>> I was somewhat hesitant to allow updates which directly load packages
>> from SqueakMap. This was discussed a few months ago, though, and
>> there wasn't any significant opposition to the idea. See:
>
> I know this idea is pretty radical, but I figure I'll throw it out
> there anyway. Maybe it will grow on people.
>
> Why not just keep packages out of the update stream entirely? That
> would make the update stream only responsible for managing the Minimal
> image, and avoid all these issues, entirely.
Seconded. I'd extend this with the suggestion that a package could have
its own update stream. The code for this is ready, I think Andreas Raab
posted it a while ago. We're currently using it successfully to keep
Tweak evolving, which IMHO is much more comfortable than all other
methods we used for getting new package versions so far.
- Bert -
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