>
> The absence of something like STORE/CPAN that is what is driving me 
> towards CST.
>
> The existence of CPAN is keeping me with Perl ;)
The existence of sake/packages to enable me to consistently build and 
debug the building of the production image that I want is helping to 
keep me sane! (after attempting to achieve what I needed with Universes 
drove me mad for a couple of weeks)

The last thing we need is yet another package management system, when we 
have hardly started using the features of the existing ones.

Oh yes it is all very well to go and drum up political support for 
various ideas and complain that it will not handle the needs of millions 
of coders, but the reality is that it is a lot of hot air! (see next 
paragraph)

The packages at lists.squeakfoundation.org list was recently re-rejuvenated 
to address this very issue, and as far as I am aware we had 1 more 
member subscribe to it as a result (and one member left). Hardly a sign 
of a community desparate to actually contribute to make things better 
for all, do you think?

Furthermore, the goals chosen by the current informal release team is to 
work in ways which will support the disparate communities that are 
emerging based upon squeak. (olpc etoys, sophie, croquet etc) Part of 
this involves championing tools that have been designed to actually work 
in all squeak derivatives.

Unfortunatelty none of these "other" communities have shown much 
interest as yet. The invitation for volunteers to be a package-czar for 
any version of squeak is still very much open.

==

Since the full list of actual dependencies relies upon use-ontext rather 
than publication-context, having a central repository as the sole place 
to manage dependencies is going to be useful but only to a limited extent.

I would personally prefer SqueakMap without dependencies, or at least if 
it had them sake/packages would enable the defaults to be overridden.

I think we could re-write SqueakMap to be a front end manager of 
Sake/Packages. If we did this then the dependencies could be managed to 
resolve to the correct data entries. But having said that, who has the 
time to actually do the work.

For those highlighting of lack of documentation for Sake/Packages , it 
is true I have had very very little time since writing it... however it 
DOES have class comments, and I have posted numerous examples and emails 
in the past 5 months or so, so you could do worse than search the mail 
archives for my posts.

best regards

Keith