Installer status (was: Re: [squeak-dev] [ExperimentalCoreRelease] PharoCore-1.0-10508rc2 vs SL3dot11-9499-alpha

Levente Uzonyi leves at elte.hu
Sat Mar 13 14:39:07 UTC 2010


On Fri, 12 Mar 2010, Ken G. Brown wrote:

> At 3:51 AM +0100 3/13/10, Levente Uzonyi apparently wrote:
>> On Fri, 12 Mar 2010, Ken G. Brown wrote:
>>
>>> Installer is being actively maintained externally. There were recently some bug fixes from someone on the Pharo list. Installer fixes in trunk have NOT to my knowledge been put in the Installer repo = lose, lose.
>>
>> Who is the maintainer? Can we cooperate with him?
>
> Is public commit as far as I know.

So there is no maintainer.

>
>> Why are the commit messages empty from Installer-Core-nm.335 to Installer-Core-nm.349?
>
> I don't know.
>> From what I understand 3.10.2 was released with an old version of Installer.
> I think the latest version of Installer and related was installed by installing LPF, but I believe then you would then have the latest MC1.5/1.6 too.
> Trunk seems to have started with ancient Installer and MC.
>

IIRC Matthew recently loaded the then-latest Installer-Core to the Trunk.

>> The changes are not lost, they can be merged them back to the squeaksource repository. Feel free to do it if you think they are useful.
>
> Those that are working on the package would obviously then want to commit to the repo to keep the repo up to date.
>
>> Btw the repository is in a bad shape:
>> "The currently blessed version of package 'Installer-Core' is Installer-Core-kph.92.mcz"
>> And the repo is full of unrelated packages.
>
> No doubt the packages are related in some way.

You mean that CollectionsTests, DrGeoII, KernelTests, Split-Join 
and Universes should be in this repository?


Levente

> Sounds like some things could be cleaned up.
>
> Ken G. Brown
>
>>
>> Levente
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>>>
>>> Ken G. Brown
>
>
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