[squeak-dev] How to release OminBrowser? (was OmniBrowser)

Frank Shearar frank.shearar at gmail.com
Fri Mar 2 14:08:57 UTC 2012


Certainly.

  Installer ss
       project: 'MetacelloRepository';
       install: 'ConfigurationOfMetacello'.
  (Smalltalk at: #ConfigurationOfMetacello) load

should be all you need to do.

frank

2012/3/2 =B0=AD=C1=F8=BF=C0 <jinoh67 at gmail.com>:
> Is Metacello installable?
>
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> 2012/3/2 Frank Shearar <frank.shearar at gmail.com>
>>
>> On 2 March 2012 13:47, =B0=AD=C1=F8=BF=C0 <jinoh67 at gmail.com> wrote:
>> > What is Metacello? I have Monticello, but not Metacello. Are Monticell=
o
>> > 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/ConfigurationOfQuaternio=
n-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/ConfigurationOfSqueakChe=
ck-fbs.8.mcz
>>
>> Both of these are Monticello packages containing Metacello configuration=
s.
>>
>> 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 softwar=
e
>> >> and seems well-suited for software distribution and, even more so,
>> >> maintenance.
>> >>
>> >> Best
>> >>        -Tobias
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