[V3dot10] Re: Loading packages in 3.10beta 7143

[Klaus D. Witzel]

On Sun, 07 Oct 2007 13:55:54 +0200, Lex Spoon wrote:
> Andreas Raab writes:
>> Edgar J. De Cleene wrote:
>> > I answer this a few days ago , now I repeat SqueakMap soon go out of  
>> image.
>> > If some is not on Universes, you have very few chances is working on  
>> 3.10
>>
>> Why is that? I don't think it's a particularly smart idea to remove SM
>> from the image - there is a lot of useful code on SM and it would be a
>> shame if people didn't have access to it (in particular considering
>> that universes are only accessible via Squeak - e.g., you can't ask
>> Google to find a package in Universes but Google will turn up packages
>> available on SM).
>
> You are talking about two different things.  If you want to read about
> a package without worrying about running the code, then yes, go to
> Google, and be sure to check out the SqueakMap page.
>
> If, however, you want to *use* a package, you will need to load it.
> For that, you should go to the package universe browser.  For Squeak
> 3.7, only 2/5 of the packages on SqueakMap actually load.  For Squeak
> 3.9, it is 1/5.  In package universes, the answer is 100% for both of
> them, and it will be 100% for 3.10 as well.

Your 100%[tm] deserves my respect, Lex.

/Klaus

>
> -Lex