[squeak-dev] [Squeak5.3a][18828][Test][User] SqueakHelp Metacello Getting Started // ProfStef not known

H. Hirzel hannes.hirzel at gmail.com
Mon Sep 2 18:17:23 UTC 2019


P.S. Should we just refer to this tutorial

http://wiki.squeak.org/squeak/1471
Metacello - Why do you need a package management system

A tutorial by Torsten Bergmann about Developer Mr. Bean writing a data
base driver package ...



On 9/2/19, H. Hirzel <hannes.hirzel at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi Tobias
>
> Thanks for your valuable feedback.
>
>> Please disregards the "Getting Started" entry.
>> 	
>> The way of using Metacello directly via ConfigurationOf… is de facto
>> deprecated,
>> and all the other stuff there probably won't work, either (Metacello
>> moved
>> away from code.google.com quite some time ago).
>>
>> If you look at the most recent version at github in this URL:
>> https://github.com/Metacello/metacello/blob/master/repository/Metacello-Help.package/MetacelloHelp.class/class/gettingStarted.st
>> you see that it was last changed in 2012, when the "original" metacello
>> was
>> still active.
>
>
> I understand that this file
>
> https://github.com/Metacello/metacello/blob/master/repository/Metacello-Help.package/MetacelloHelp.class/class/gettingStarted.st
>
> (= the help text , HelpTopic code of the screen shot earlier in the
> thread) is May 4, 2012. It is no longer valid.
>
> BUT I do not understand what you write below
>
>  _That_ version is what we use to install the current version
>> (which used with the "Metacello"-class api, which supports Baselines and
>> GitHub).
>
> Is it something that you use an older version to install a newer version....
> ?
>
>
>
> ACTIONPOINT:
>
> What do we need to do?
>
>> We need to change the Help text and issue a Pull Request against
>> https://github.com/Metacello/metacello :)
>
> And thanks God it could be as simple as forking Metacello repo in
> Github through the web interrface and then just change the text
> through the github web interface and issue a pull request  to Dale H.
> (all through the web interface, it is plain text).
>
> But  we need to know what to put there. Maybe just a pointer to a
> tutorial on the web?
> Which one?
>
> And: I am a little bit astonished that this 2012 issue was not caught
> earlier ....
>
> Best
> Hannes
>


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