Java's modules rock? (was Re: election details *PLEASE READ*)

Philippe Marschall philippe.marschall at gmail.com
Tue Mar 6 16:47:18 UTC 2007


Sorry. I must either have misunderstood you or remember incorrectly.

Philippe

2007/3/6, James Robertson <jarober at gmail.com>:
> Umm, I must have been misunderstood.  I use Store for both Silt (my
> blog server) and BottomFeeder - see the public repository for the
> long history of both products.
>
> I use parcels as my deployment mechanism for both Silt and
> BottomFeeder.  For the blog server, I have the application server
> load from parcels each time it starts (thus giving me a
> deterministic, reproducible startup procedure).  I use parcels to
> build the BottomFeeder application, and have parcels as the update
> mechanism - i.e., you can check for updates in the app, and it will
> download parcels and load them at runtime (and at startup the next
> time it runs).
>
> I'm not sure where this impression comes ffrom, but it's not the case.
>
> >At ESUG 2006 James Robertson said he doesn't use Parcels for code
> >deployment because they are just not reliable (of course he doesn't
> >use store either). He uses change sets (or .st files, I don't remember
> >exactly) instead.
> >
> >Philippe
> >
> >> >
> >> >> May be I should post to VW to see what are the problem with
> >> >> deployed code in VW.
> >> >> A parcel in VW has dev and depl prerequisites and it seems to work
> >> >> too.
> >> >
> >> > Well, sure. Sorta. Kinda. :-) We can do the same in Squeak with
> >> > projects and change sets and it seems to work, too. Sorta. Kinda. :-)
> >>
> >>rofl :-)
> >>
> >> >
> >> > Cheers,
> >> >   - Andreas
> >> >
> >> >
> >>
> >>
>
> <Talk Small and Carry a Big Class Library>
> James Robertson, Product Manager, Cincom Smalltalk
> http://www.cincomsmalltalk.com/blog/blogView
>
>
>



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