2011/5/8 Frank Shearar <frank.shearar at angband.za.org>:
> On 2011/05/08 19:00, Ken G. Brown wrote:
>>
>> At 12:35 PM -0400 5/8/11, Chris Cunnington apparently wrote:
>>>>
>>>> Installer is a prime example of a potentially community maintained
>>>> external package.
>>>
>>> OK. That's an interesting idea. I won't argue that. I will argue that in
>>> the main Installer works. The functions you've found errors for don't work,
>>> but I don't think they are used much. A good example of this is FTP support
>>> in FileList. Totally broken. But nobody seems to miss it. Some things are
>>> higher priority than others.
>>>
>>>> Trunk started out with an old version of Installer for no good reason
>>>> and has diverged since then.
>>>
>>> There are lots of things that happen around here for no good reason. It's
>>> not a conspiracy just a community.
>>>
>>>> A merge of Trunk Installer with the one on squeaksource is needed to
>>>> bring Trunk to the latest. A bit of work is needed to bring Trunk up to the
>>>> latest state and to get the tests working.
>>>
>>> Great. That sounds like a plan. Would you like to be the maintainer for
>>> Installer?
>>>
>>> Chris
>>
>> Well, I am not a community.
>>
>> However since I wrote the email, I have just had a look comparing the
>> Installer in Sq 4.3 vs the version of Installer from squeaksource that I was
>> able to Install/merge into 4.2, and a lot of Installer functionality has
>> been summarily turfed lately.
>> I previously went through the process of trying to bring everything from
>> Installer on squeaksource into 4.2 that I thought was later versions but I
>> didn't really have a good understanding of whether or not I had broken
>> anything. However, I did test the merged Installer by using it for various
>> installs and it seemed to work. I wanted to get the Installer Tests working
>> in order to give an indication of the merged Installer well being, but I ran
>> into roadblocks that I did not get time to resolve. If someone knowledgeable
>> with SUnit could get the tests working, that would be great. I think the
>> Installer Tests require the enhanced SUnit from
>> http://www.squeaksource.com/Testing.html. SUnit is another potential for a
>> community supported external package. It too has diverged significantly from
>> where it could have been.
>> I kept the merged Installer for 4.2 in a local repo on my hard drive and I
>> am able to load it into 4.3 now by resurrecting
>> MCFileBasedRepository>>versionFromFileNamed: which was also deleted.
>>
>> Loading my local Installer brings back everything that has recently been
>> turfed and would allow the possibility to bring back Sake and Bob the
>> Builder for example and work with them.
>> The version of Installer on squeaksource was set up for automated builds,
>> logging, etc.
>
> I see Testing refers to SSpec. I too would _love_ to see SSpec
> (http://www.squeaksource.com/SSpec.html) resuscitated. It... well, there are
> some things that leave me boggling. You'll see in the commit logs me hacking
> around.
>

Very expressive...

Nicolas

> I've managed to get most tests working again, by implementing multiselect
> lists in ToolBuilder-SUnit. I don't have any tests covering what I've done
> or I'd have committed it already, but if someone wants to look over what
> I've done, I'm happy to submit it to the Inbox.
>
> frank
>
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