Hi

just a remark. Roel told me that he got a lot of trouble because the 
file is named install/preamble
may be avoiding this kind of character in file name would be cool. Why 
not install-preamble?






On mercredi, novembre 20, 2002, at 05:02  pm, Stephen Pair wrote:

> Right, and a file-in mechanism generalized to handle zips would allow 
> you to
> have a snippet of code at the beginning of a SAR that called the
> install/preamble.
>
> Anyway, it's not so important to me that I'm about to run off and 
> write it.
>
> - Stephen
>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: squeak-dev-admin at lists.squeakfoundation.org
>> [mailto:squeak-dev-admin at lists.squeakfoundation.org]On Behalf Of
>> goran.hultgren at bluefish.se
>> Sent: Wednesday, November 20, 2002 10:36 AM
>> To: squeak-dev at lists.squeakfoundation.org
>> Subject: RE: SAR
>>
>>
>> "Stephen Pair" <spair at acm.org> wrote:
>>> Yes, I may not be the brightest person, but I do know they are
>> zip files and
>>> I know you want to put other stuff in there.
>>>
>>> What I'm proposing is to generalize things a bit and make it so that 
>>> the
>>> file in mechanism gives you enough support that you can put a
>> chunk of code
>>> at the beginning of a zip file and then manipulate that zip
>> file in whatever
>>> way you want (i.e. load the change set and package members,
>> copy images and
>>> other files to a certain location, etc).  That would be entirely
>>> complementary to the SAR conventions.
>>>
>>> - Stephen
>>
>> Currently this is done throught the "preamble" file inside the .sar
>> file.
>> As Andreas said - all this works today with the only difference that 
>> you
>> can't just use the normal "file in" mechanism, you need to go through
>> the SAR installer class.
>>
>> But personally I don't think that is a problem - it might even be a 
>> good
>> thing - we should strive in moving away from the old formats in favor 
>> of
>> the new ones IMHO.
>>
>> regards, Göran
>>
>>
>>
>
>
>
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