[squeak-dev] The Trunk: Morphic-laza.489.mcz

Tobias Pape Das.Linux at gmx.de
Thu Dec 9 10:13:16 UTC 2010


Am 2010-12-09 um 10:17 schrieb Alexander Lazarević:
> 
> You tell me. The benefit I see of just using installer is, that only one package gets installed. Using a Metacello Config I get all the Metacello mambo jumbo + Gofer + RoelTyper. I don't know if OCompletion benefits a great deal by having RoelTyper installed. Maybe someone else could answer this.
> And with installer it loads about eight times faster. So if OCompletion will not be an integrated part of 4.2, this seems to be a quick way to get it into such an image.
> One could see how complex the OCompletion installtion will be in the future and switch to a Metacello Config then, no? 
> 

Actually, RoleTyper seems to be a requirement of 
OCompletion.
  FWIW, The Metacello Config is meant to be Installable
at any future point in time, your installer Doit + the 
two other doits may change. For example, if the developers
of OCompletion just put another _non-working_ version
into their repo, your doit will miraculously result in
a non-working OCompletion, while a Metacello-installation
would still work. Or consider a rename of the packages
from Ocompletion to OCompletion. The metacello-config
can immediately be updated, while the 'Extending the System'-
Workspace cannot as fast be updated.

My rationale: Why shouldn't we use Metacello Configs if 
they are there and doing what we want: Installing the 
software.

So Long,
	-Toibas




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