On 12/22/05, Chris Muller chris@funkyobjects.org wrote:
Assuming there was full support for MCC's (I require able to save to a "directory" repository), what do they buy me over the flat list of regular dependencies?
You can save MCC's to any kind of repository. However, SqueakSource interprets what it receives and it misinterpreted .mcm files. That's been solved, I hear :)
Well, as long as all the packages are strictly yours and you can keep a flat hierarchy, MCC doesn't buy you a whole lot apart from probably load order (I'm not sure that MC's guarantees w.r.t. load order are, but in any case it's a bit of a pain to maintain). It starts to shine if you need to pull in third-party stuff, in a certain order. That's hard to do with MC without publishing new versions of such packages with prereqs to satisfy a certain load order, with MCC it's just natural.