[squeak-dev] Services, Universes, SqueakMap browser all seem
broken in 4.5
Chris Muller
asqueaker at gmail.com
Wed Apr 9 16:21:04 UTC 2014
> The only problem I have with SqueakMap is that for packages like
> TwosComplement or PunchedCards on SqueakMap, which run on more or less
> any version of Squeak, I am expected to remember to update those packages
> on SqueakMap every time someone releases a new Squeak version. This is
> annoying and eventually I might run out of patience and forget to do it.
What's more annoying is bit-rot, having a bunch of stuff listed in
SqueakMap that doesn't work. That's what led to its horrible
reputation.
The whole purpose of the Catalog is to tell me what software is
_available_ -- e.g., what *works*. If it can't do that, it's useless.
The only way it can do that is to require that we manually designate
new releases of packages for each new release of Squeak.
Which is why I tried to make that process as quick and painless as
possible. And it's clearly documented here:
http://wiki.squeak.org/squeak/6180
It takes just a few minutes per package. How often are new Squeak
versions put out? So, a few minutes per year per package seems like a
small price to pay for solving the bit-rot problem..
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