On 8/23/06, Giovanni Giorgi <daitangio at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 8/22/06, Pavel Krivanek <squeak1 at continentalbrno.cz> wrote:
> > Hi Edgar,
> >
> > That's great that you are trying to create packages for the kernel
> > image but remember that the image shloud be consistent after loading -
> > empty Undeclared etc. I don't know why you need to have FileList or
> > MessageTally in this package.
> >
> > I think that we need better packaging system - maybe something like
> > Gentoo has. Packages use property named "use flags" that tell that for
> > example MessageTally package may be compiled with the compression
> > support.
> >
> > Does anybody know next good packaging systems we can learn from?
>
> Mhhh difficult answer.
> CPAN dependecy system seems good to me.
> Even ruby gems works fine.
> In the 2004 the Squeak maling list (I and  some other) tried to
> "divide" the image in some uniform areas but was a very difficult
> task.
> I think we must aim to a lesser difficult task.
> For instance an image with only these features can be quite good:
>  Networking
>  Base Stuff (Collection, Message Tally and so on)
>  Math Base
>  Minimal SqueakMap engine OR Minimal MCInstall
>
> and optionally:
>  Morph base
>
> Pavel do you have a web page when can I study your "Image costruction kit"?

I will try to prepare something soon, for now, start with this thread:
http://lists.squeakfoundation.org/pipermail/squeak-dev/2005-October/096625.html

-- Pavel