[squeak-dev] Extending the System Workspace

Ken G. Brown kbrown at mac.com
Thu Feb 17 00:25:59 UTC 2011


Excellent! Much better.
SqueakMap is a great tool that has been underutilized and seems like a good place to keep the load scripts.
Good work!

Thx,
Ken

At 4:11 PM -0600 2/16/11, Chris Muller apparently wrote:
>I have been working to externalize all of the scripts of the
>"Extending the System" workspace into the SqueakMap Catalog.  Once
>that is done, the whole Extending the System workspace will be
>obsolete, and I will remove it.
>
>There is this elegant object model which has been built-up by the
>Squeak community over the last decade or so.  It's a great record of
>all the major software ever written for Squeak and the contributors
>who did it.  It is also uniquely positioned to address a cluster of
>issues that face the Squeak and Pharo communities; most notably,
>technological-divergence.
>
>It's now extremely easy to put releases on SqueakMap.  In a Squeak
>trunk image, just select the new menu option on SqueakMap packages;
>either "Create new Release" or "Edit release".  A new type of browser
>opens where the load-script for that package can be edited and saved
>directly to SqueakMap.
>
>It's helpful to remember that SqueakMap is just a catalog; e.g.,
>"documentation" about what software packages are available for Squeak
>and Pharo, which image versions they run on, (including which Pharo
>versions), what the license is, who the main developers are, and how
>much it extends or modifies the image that it runs on.  Now, the
>fields can include the load-script appropriate for the designated
>Squeak or Pharo version.
>
>I have already added the releases for Squeak 4.2 for the packages I
>own on SqueakMap.  I now ask those in the community who have
>contributed their load-scripts to the "Extending the System" workspace
>to please cut and paste your load-script into the new SM Release
>Browser and click "Save".  It can be done, literally, in under 60
>seconds if we will just Do It.  All of those releases will then appear
>in the Catalog of the just-released 4.2 image.  Right now we have only
>a half-dozen or so packages that appear in the 4.2 list.  It would be
>great to see FFI, muO, OCompletion, Omnibrowser, OSProcess, Seaside,
>Pier and Cobalt in there as well.
>
>There is actually a bit more to tell (!!) but I'm trying to keep this
>short and simple so we can can at least get the ball rolling
>externalizing the scripts that we do have.  But these new enhancements
>also address issues about Community-Supported packages.  Please feel
>free to ask questions!
>
> - Chris
>
>On Wed, Feb 16, 2011 at 2:37 PM, Ken G. Brown <kbrown at mac.com> wrote:
>> In Sq 4.2 in the 'How to extend the system' Workspace, it has:
>>
>> "Note: Please edit this workspace and add your own contributions.
>> To submit it to the inbox open the Monticello browser and submit it from there.
>> Save the package '* Morphic' to the inbox."
>>
>> Wouldn't it make more sense to have it located in something like Help-Squeak-ExtendingTheSystem similar to Help-Squeak-TerseGuide?
>> Then it would be simple to update.
>>
>> I have a couple things I could add to 'How to extend the system' but hesitate to do so in case I did something else by accident to Morphic and would pollute it.
>>
>> Ken G. Brown
>>
>>




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