[squeak-dev] MonticelloConfiguration and Installer questions

Bert Freudenberg bert at freudenbergs.de
Thu Sep 18 13:07:23 UTC 2008


Am 18.09.2008 um 14:28 schrieb C. David Shaffer:

> Bert Freudenberg wrote:
>>
>>
>> Hehe, that attitude pretty much drove MCConfiguration  
>> development :) It's TSTTCPW and just gets the job done it was  
>> needed for, but as you noticed it isn't well-integrated, it does  
>> not do autmatic versioning. But I like its simplicity - it really  
>> is nothing more than a list of package versions and repositories.
>>
>> - Bert -
>>
> :-) MCConfiguration is working /very/ well for me.  It is a nice  
> incremental improvement over my manual process.  I'm not using the  
> "Store" capability in the configuration browser, though, because it  
> will quickly make a mess of my MC repository browser (I've already  
> got too many packages to scroll through there).  It seems more  
> sensible to write my configs to disk during deployment so I can  
> "version" them by release number.  I assume that's what most people  
> are doing?  ...or is there a sensible way to use them in a MCBrowser  
> that I've just missed?  Maybe a naming convention that makes the MC  
> browser show only one package entry per config (as opposed to per / 
> instance/ of a config).


I just overwrite a single config in the repo every time I make a new  
release. So this config is the "head" of the development tree.

- Bert -





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