[Squeakfoundation]The Harvesting process and the BFAV

[Daniel Vainsencher]

I think the fact that packages don't get automatically updated when
their author updates them is a good thing. An author has the
responsibility to develop his package, with regard to its own
development cycle. So he should sometimes post a version to give it more
testing even if he wouldn't want it to be used by all squeakers.

Seems like a pretty easy way to deal with this is for maintainers (or
anyone else) to occaisonally post a message like "[FIX] Update to
MyPackage 1.02", when it turns out that version is stable enough. I
think these should be included quite easily, the author is responsible
for it working well enough, we are only responsible for integration.
Note that since we now have a version aware SM2 Package Loader, 1.02
need not be the current version...

BTW, have you guys tried the SM2 Package Loader? when do you think we
should make 3.7 include it by default instead of SM Package Loader?

Daniel

Marcus Denker <marcus at ira.uka.de> wrote:
> The problem we have now with managing packages "outside" is that
> even if the packages get maintained on SM, they need to go
> throug the update stream if they should appear in the image...
> 
> We need to have a system that allows maintainers to update packages
> completely independed wrt the update-stream, but nevertheless be
> as good as the update-stream in the sense that changes get installed
> automatically. 
> 
>     Marcus
> 
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