[Cryptography Team] How many repositories does it take to screwina lightbulb?

[Cees De Groot]

I'd say just 'Cryptography'

On 10/21/05, Ron Teitelbaum <Ron at usmedrec.com> wrote:
> Thanks Cees,
>
> So if it's agreed then we can move to a single MC repository Cryptography
> Base.  Anyone disagree?
>
> Ron
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Cees De Groot [mailto:cdegroot at gmail.com]
> Sent: Friday, October 21, 2005 4:19 PM
> To: Ron at usmedrec.com; Cryptography Team Development List
> Cc: The general-purpose Squeak developers list
> Subject: Re: [Cryptography Team] How many repositories does it take to
> screwina lightbulb?
>
> On 10/21/05, Ron Teitelbaum <Ron at usmedrec.com> wrote:
> > That would be fine.  Is there a way to use Monticello and or squeak map to
> > download a single package from the repository?
>
> You're mixing up two very different things. SqueakMap is a catalog
> system, Monticello a versioning system. One is aimed at users, the
> other is for developers. And SqueakSource is a repository for
> Monticello, divided into projects for administrative reasons..
>
> Monticello works at the granularity of packages (by default, but I
> won't unnecessarily complicate matters here :-)). You version all of a
> package at once, and there's an n:m relation between versioned
> packages and repositories. Usually, for any given team, you decide on
> a single repository because usually all the team members (and
> non-members) have the same level of access to all the packages the
> team maintains.
>
> Now, if the time comes to deploy stuff to the general public, that's
> when SqueakMap comes into play. SqueakMap has a very loose
> relationship with either projects or packages, it defines its own
> entity being a library catalogue card. The stuff you put on that card
> can be whatever you like - the simple thing being a single Monticello
> package which is then available for direct installation through the
> SqueakMap package browser, but more complex projects often publish
> cards containing a pointer to a more complex entity like a .sar file
> (Squeak ARchive) which is the closest thing we have to an installer.
> A .sar file can contain all sorts of stuff, and so can fill your image
> with a plethora of packages in one mouse click.
>
> However, that's all deployment-time stuff. For development-time, a
> SqueakSource project is an administrative domain, and as such a single
> project will suffice for the Cryptography team.
>
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