Hi Laurent. Thank you very much for tacking care. Now I was thinking: the ONLY way to correclty be able to reproduce a VM version we need not only the VMMaker side but also SVN. If 6 months from today, I try to load version 1.4 with trunk, it won't work. I need to downloa an spceific SVN revision, as you write it in the commit comment. However, I was thinking that it would be great to put such information in the description: of Metacello. Not even the version (as the repo can change) but also the whole command. Not necesary while a verison is in #development but yes when it is realed. So, suppose I release 1.4 I can write:
version14: spec
<version: '1.4' imports: #('1.4-baseline') >
spec for: #common do: [
spec blessing: #development.
spec description: '- Changed repository of TrueType
- etc.....
Works with svn co
http://squeakvm.org/svn/squeak/trunk/platforms/ -r 2203'.
spec
package: 'FFI-Pools' with: 'FFI-Pools-ar.1';
package: 'SharedPool-Speech' with: 'SharedPool-Speech-dtl.2';
package: 'VMMaker' with: 'VMMaker-dtl.170';
package: 'MemoryAccess' with: 'MemoryAccess-dtl.3';
package: 'SlangBrowser' with: 'SlangBrowser-dtl.3';
package: 'VMConstruction-Plugins-OSProcessPlugin' with: 'VMConstruction-Plugins-OSProcessPlugin-mtf.21';
package: 'VMConstruction-Plugins-AioPlugin' with: 'VMConstruction-Plugins-AioPlugin-dtl.9';
package: 'VMConstruction-Plugins-XDisplayControlPlugin' with: 'VMConstruction-Plugins-XDisplayControlPlugin-dtl.7';
package: 'Balloon3D-Constants' with: 'Balloon3D-Constants-ar.5';
package: 'Balloon3D-Plugins' with: 'Balloon3D-Plugins-bf.5';
package: 'Freetype-Plugin' with: 'Freetype-Plugin-dtl.56';
package: 'FreeType' with: 'FreeType-tween.435'.
].
spec for: #pharo do: [
spec blessing: #development.
spec
package: 'Alien-VMMaker-Support' with: 'Alien-VMMaker-Support-John M McIntosh.8';
package: 'Alien-VMMaker-Plugins' with: 'Alien-VMMaker-Plugins-John M McIntosh.8';
package: 'Sound' with: 'Sound-StephaneDucasse.47'.
]
Of course, this is just an example...
what do you think ? I hope this will increase traceability between Smalltalk code and svn.