Hi Ken,

If you ask... ;-)

Am 13.12.2010 um 18:21 schrieb Ken G. Brown:
> I for one do not want to see Installer disappear.
> Can anyone explain to me what advantage GoFer has over Installer?
> Seem to me they are doing more or less the same thing.
I like Gofer better than Installer for the following reasons:
- Gofer has an active maintainer, the original author still maintains it.
- Lukas writes top quality Smalltalk code IMO. I find the code cleaner. (That, of course, may just be my personal preference.)
- Gofer is much smaller than Installer - 640 lines of code versus 1703 - thus the image would be smaller if we replaced Installer with Gofer.
- At the same time Gofer has more functionality which I find quite useful, committing, fetching and pushing. See http://www.lukas-renggli.ch/blog/gofer for a short description.
- Installer has a lot of code which is rarely used.
- Installation code for packages which are compatible between Squeak and Pharo could be the same in many cases, which I find less confusing.
- This brings Squeak and Pharo closer together again, which would be a good thing IMO.

Enough reasons in my opinion. Of course, reasonable people might disagree. ;-)

Cheers,
Bernhard