That's pretty clever, and it's kind of sad that it can't work right now.
I found a few more bugs that could be fixed quite simply and might result in something that would enable much the same capability. I guess it can't be in regular use though or we'd hear complaints about the missing methods.
So aside from the wierdness about Installer web returning the InstallerWeb class etc, and the missing #scripts method, I see that the methods that help with parsing a web page to fid the embedded script(s) got changed such that the pbwiki doc recipes are unusable - the tag is described as <code st=""></code> whereas the code specifies <code st></code st>. Unless anyone has a good technical reason to change the code here I'll leave it and just describe it that way in the comments.
Given that it doesn't work, doesn't seem to have any current use and we don't know what #scripts should do, I propose to remove the Installer class>>install: method. An equivalent capability ought to be in InstallerWeb anyway, if someone wants to reinvigorate it.
On 2019-08-27, at 2:38 AM, Keith keithy@consultant.com wrote:
Hi Tim,
I wrote it and I don't remember sufficient detail.
The idea was part of a suite of capabilities for the Squeak4.1 "new development model".
The capability was that each version of squeak would be created by applying a crafted script to the previous version, rather than hacking away at a trunk repo.
The scripts for various targets could be tested out and edited by contributors as it was embedded in a wiki page. Bug fixes were supplied by mantis, and called up by fix numbers, and the code was found embedded in mantis pages.
These scripts would also unload as many palaces from the main image as possible, moving them into a curated list of packages (Sake/Packages).
Bob the Builder, a continuous integration and testing tool also built on Sake, would run the scripts, build and test the images, periodically or whenever anything changed.
Keith
tim -- tim Rowledge; tim@rowledge.org; http://www.rowledge.org/tim "Bother" said Pooh, when Piglet stubbed his fag out on the semtex.