ImageForDevelopers

Damien Cassou damien.cassou at laposte.net
Mon Sep 18 10:00:50 UTC 2006


Lex Spoon a écrit :
> Damien Cassou <damien.cassou at laposte.net> writes:
>> Lex Spoon a écrit :
>>> That sounds like the kind of thing Package Universes is good at.  You
>>> can perfectly well post umbrella packages like "developerTools" onto a
>>> package universe.  The umbrella package then depends on whatever
>>> specific packages are required.
>>>   http://minnow.cc.gatech.edu/squeak/3785
>>> Feel free, guys, to continue using the development universe server
>>> that is running right now.
>>
>> I don't really understand how it is works and how to use it. Moreover,
>> I can't install it in my image (Can't find EOCD position).
> 
> 
> Hmm, I ran into the same thing.  It seems fixed now.  I'm not sure
> what was wrong, but I posted a new version "9b".  Please give it a
> try!
> 
> 
> The way it all works, theory aside, is pretty much what has been
> described in the long thread "An 3.9 image for developers".  You get a
> list of packages, and you can install things from the list.  You can
> put group packages on the list if you want, so that you could have
> "standard developer set" as a package that simply depends on all the
> standard developer packages.  People can post updated packages to the
> list, just like with SqueakMap (except, you use a GUI, not a web
> site).
> 
> 
> On top of the basics, there are some theoretical niceties.  One of the
> big ones is that you can have a local repository of packages that
> augments a standard public repository....

Sounds cool! Thank you

-- 
Damien Cassou




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