[squeak-dev] Re: [etoys-dev] Packaging Etoys

Edgar J. De Cleene edgardec2001 at yahoo.com.ar
Mon Mar 1 08:59:15 UTC 2010




On 2/28/10 11:01 PM, "David T. Lewis" <lewis at mail.msen.com> wrote:

> On Sun, Feb 28, 2010 at 06:47:58PM +0100, Karl Ramberg wrote:
>> Hi,
>> I have worked on packaging the Etoys image and saved them to
>> source.squeak.org/etoys.
>> I'm new to Monticello and hope I did not screw up too badly.
> 
> Folks,
> 
> Efforts are under way to synchronize Etoys with Squeak trunk.
> The Etoys developers have taken some first steps to save the
> Etoys image in Monticello archives (http://source.squeak.org/etoys).
> 
> Since Monticello is being used to support this work, and since
> package naming conventions are important in Monticello, it will
> be helpful to all involved if the package names in trunk conform
> to the correct spelling of Etoys:
>   http://lists.squeakland.org/pipermail/etoys-dev/2010-February/004397.html
> 
> For this reason, I am about to post an update to Squeak trunk that
> changes all package names to from "EToys" to "Etoys" and changes all
> package overrides from "*eToys", "*EToys" and so forth to "*Etoys".
> 
> As far as I know, this update requires no special changes to the
> trunk update stream. However, I've been wrong about this sort of
> thing before so if any problems appear in the update process, you
> can reasonably assume that it is my fault. Also, apologies in
> advance for the rather large update notification that may result
> from this change.
> 
> Dave


IMHO the right thing to do is:

In the trunk image we do Smalltalk unloadAllKnownPackages.

>From the Etoys repositories we load Etoys, so we have the right and the
last.

And we also have differences in Project and maybe some other classes , which
should be solved if we wish trunk .image load Etoys 4 project.

Edgar 






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