[V3dot10] Re: Loading packages in 3.10beta 7143

[Andreas Raab]

Nice claims (which I personally can't confirm; my success rate of 
loading stuff from Universes has not been significantly higher than 
loading from SM), but what does that have to do with whether SM should 
be part of the image or not?

Cheers,
   - Andreas

Lex Spoon wrote:
> Andreas Raab <andreas.raab at gmx.de> 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.
> 
> 
> 
> -Lex
> 
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