[Squeakfoundation]Incorporating removals & KCP stuff

[Daniel Vainsencher]

Once and only once - code that affects packages should be distributed in
no other way than by being in the package.

This important for two reasons -
1. The package owner really should be the only one that decides about
code that goes in his package. 
2. If packages depend on active Harvesting of all their stuff, that
slows down the maintainance of base itself, and the evolution of all
packages. The opposite of what we want.

Part of this is removing concerns from the Harvesters. The maximum they
should worry about packages is that when packages are updated that
affect a certain image brand (base, full), the maintainer of the image
should have the option of making the package update itself. Of course,
this can be done easily if SM in the image, which is not a problem for
Base and Full. 

Daniel

John M McIntosh <johnmci at smalltalkconsulting.com> wrote:
> 
> On Thursday, May 8, 2003, at 04:22  AM, goran.hultgren at bluefish.se  
> wrote:
> >
> >
> > But the update stream is only used for code not in packages. It can  
> > only
> > "expect" an image that doesn't have SM. Aargh. My head spins.
> >
> > Need to think more...
> 
> Well any way to change the update stream logic to consider packages.  
> Then the update stream
> could update packages if they are installed, otherwise they get  
> skipped. Later if you load said package
> and rerun the update, it might go back and re-apply updates as needed  
> based on which packages
> are now loaded?
> 
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