On 18 March 2013 11:52, Frank Shearar <frank.shearar at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 18 March 2013 11:46,  <commits at source.squeak.org> wrote:
>> Frank Shearar uploaded a new version of Installer-Core to project The Inbox:
>> http://source.squeak.org/inbox/Installer-Core-fbs.366.mcz
>>
>> ==================== Summary ====================
>>
>> Name: Installer-Core-fbs.366
>> Author: fbs
>> Time: 18 March 2013, 11:46:52.277 am
>> UUID: f665ad84-81d3-4337-8527-4c5f320ec2ab
>> Ancestors: Installer-Core-fbs.365
>>
>> InstallerGitHub lets you install source stored in a GitHub repository. It detects FileTree repositories (through the .filetree marker file) and otherwise assumes chunk format.
>>
>> It will lazily pull in WebClient, SqueakSSL and FileTree as and when necessary. Note that since GitHub uses SSL everywhere, you MUST have the SqueakSSL plugin installed in your VM to use this class.
>
> I've actually used this, and it seems to work: it's now in good enough
> shape for other folk to beat on it.
>
> Dale, if you've a moment spare, I'd particularly appreciate any
> comments you might have on my use/abuse of FileTree classes.
>
> I want to be able to pull in sources stored on GitHub without worrying
> about the file system mapping someone chose to use, whether Gitocello
> or Filetree or other.
>
> (And, in particular, I'd like to keep things loose enough that I can
> experiment with alternative fileout syntaxes.)

The mcz is missing something important, namely

    Installer class >> github
        ^ InstallerGitHub new

but with that in place, and with an SSL plugin installed (the
published binaries are 32 bit only; they don't work in an Interpreter
built on a 64 bit machine), you can:

(Installer github
    user: 'KenDickey' repository: 'Cuis-Ropes) install

frank