On Wed, 9 Mar 2005 15:51:26 +0100, goran.krampe@bluefish.se goran.krampe@bluefish.se wrote:
I do have an idea that we could add "Universe" as a new "type" of thing on SM, just as I would like to add "image" as another type, and possibly even "repository" (Monticello).
That's a very interesting thought; as I understand it, the goal of SqueakMap was always to "map" the Squeak community in general, rather than to be a list of packages. I think this is a great goal, and one we should try to keep sight of. The question is, what are the most interesting things to map? At first, packages were an obvious choice, but I think Lex makes a very compelling argument that as we move forward we should be thinking in terms of sets of package versions rather than in terms of individual packages. In light of that, what if we migrated SqueakMap towards keeping a list of package Universes rather than a list of packages? It would remain in its familiar and extremely useful status as the gateway to the Squeak world, but would delegate the responsibility for package-level granularity to the individual Universes.
Avi