Loading a package vs. Merging?

[stéphane ducasse]

marcus may be we should not harvest the changes from Squeakland.
Or load them as cs. May be this an idiot idea. But the idea of Avi of  
dropping MC is worse to me.

Stef


On 4 mars 06, at 10:13, Marcus Denker wrote:

> Hi,
>
> Honestly, the 3.9 setup of managing the image with MC is killing  
> me... it just does not work well.
> We need to find another way or improve it. (I have no time to do  
> this in paralell to get 3.9 out of
> the door).
>
> I am spending more time fighting with getting all packaged to load  
> or painstackingly updateing
> the scriploader scripts by hand... doing a release take *hours* as  
> soon as something goes
> wrong, and at least 30min for the most trivial case.
>
> My latest fun problems
>
> a) Upstream maintainers want to have their packages in as is, they  
> should not be merged...
> b) moving methods between packages just does not work. They somehow  
> disappear.
>
> And everything just is far, far to slow. Impossibly slow.
>
> I don't know how long it will take to do a 7005... I hope this  
> weekend. Syncing with SqueakLand
> is far away, as I am truly burned out... 150 changesets to go, I  
> don't know when I will find
> the energy for that.
>
>           Marcus