Is Metacello installable?

2012/3/2 Frank Shearar <frank.shearar at gmail.com>

> On 2 March 2012 13:47, °­Áø¿À <jinoh67 at gmail.com> wrote:
> > What is Metacello? I have Monticello, but not Metacello. Are Monticello
> and
> > Metacello the same?
>
> No. Monticello is a version control system that uses packages calls mcz
> files.
>
> Metacello is a configuration management system, so describes how
> Monticello packages make up some project.
>
> If you browse the source of this package -
>
> http://www.squeaksource.com/MetacelloRepository/ConfigurationOfQuaternion-fbs.4.mcz
> - you'll see how Nicolas Cellier's Quaternion package is configured.
>
> For a slightly less trivial example, take a look at
>
> http://www.squeaksource.com/MetacelloRepository/ConfigurationOfSqueakCheck-fbs.8.mcz
>
> Both of these are Monticello packages containing Metacello configurations.
>
> To install either, load the package into your system and run
> "ConfigurationOfQuaternion load" or "ConfigurationOfSqueakCheck load".
> That, off the top of my head, ought to be sufficient to load both.
> (It'll take a while: both will bootstrap Metacello into your image.)
> (If they don't load cleanly, please tell me and I'll fix them!)
>
> frank
>
> > 2012/3/2 Tobias Pape <Das.Linux at gmx.de>
> >>
> >>
> >> Am 2012-03-01 um 15:34 schrieb Chris Cunnington:
> >>
> >> > "This might be a reason to go for a release 4.4 after that."
> >> > [¡¦]
> >> > How do we release OmniBrowser? This is an issue on
> >> > the agenda for the next meeting of the SOB.
> >> >
> >> > One way is an Installer script. Perhaps another is a sar file like the
> >> > one
> >> > I used yesterday to load OSProcess? How about an image segment?
> >> > If people could generate some ideas, then Tuesday's meeting of the
> >> > SOB will be more productive.
> >>
> >> I don't want to say it should be the default Distribution method,
> >> but I think a Metacello-Configuration for OB on Squeak is a must-have.
> >> I know, this might kick of discussions of whether or not to have
> Metacello
> >> in a base image and the like, but from an Administrators perspective
> >> (or DevOp?) Metacello provides means to ¡°depend on¡± Smalltalk software
> >> and seems well-suited for software distribution and, even more so,
> >> maintenance.
> >>
> >> Best
> >>        -Tobias
> >>
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