[squeak-dev] Re: [Release] The role of Bob, Installer & Co.

Keith Hodges keith_hodges at yahoo.co.uk
Sun Jul 5 18:34:42 UTC 2009


David T. Lewis wrote:
> On Sun, Jul 05, 2009 at 07:46:14AM -0700, Andreas Raab wrote:
>   
>> Keith Hodges wrote:
>>
>>     
>>> The image will probably be a bit unstable for a bit, but we cant go to
>>> the extent of breaking it ever, because we are not distibuting a new
>>> image, just updates, everything must continue to work seamlessly.
>>>       
>> Not necessarily. If there is a need to distribute a new image, we can 
>> certainly do that. I'm just not in favor of requiring a new image any 
>> time you want to do anything.
>>     
>
> I want to mention that from the point of view of someone who maintains
> external packages, it is *hugely* helpful to me to have the update
> stream in addition to complete images. I've been maintaining some of
> these packages for a long time, so I speak from experience and it
> matters a lot to me.
>
> Dave
>   
Thats what Bob is for.

Bob will keep continuously building and testing your package into all
images that you want to maintain it in. It will also allow others who
have forks you have never even heard of to do the same. You wont have to
manually fight with updates or images.

Keith



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