goran.hultgren at bluefish.se wrote:
> Do read the little help text available from the popup menu. There are
> some small usability issues with SM Package Loader, but report them to
> Daniel or here on the mailinglist and we will get them fixed. Daniel
> will be updating SM Package Loader on friday and for example, I have
> already sent him a fix for the pale color (same fix as has been
> submitted for ProcessBrowser btw) and for reporting that "Download
> failed" when it is in fact the installation that fails. :-)

Ok, I start working now, so please report any issues you find.
 
> A few highlights about RC1:
> - Smarter version string if none given.
> - Support for fallback onto a list of master servers etc. Base list of
> masters "burnt in".
> - Support for "reinstallation" by giving the choice of filing into an
> already existing change set.
> - Support for Ned Konz .sar format which is a multichangeset (or other
> files) autoinstallable zip archive. Pretty cool.
> - Spam blockers allowed in registrations, just update your entry and
> read the info at the top.
> - A few more services in the domain model that haven't been made
> available in any UI yet (like "Please upgrade all my installed packages
> that have newer versions available..." similar to "apt-get upgrade" in
> Debian)
Cool, will have a thorough look around.

> -Simple changeset: BehavioralInspector 0.1, SWebMail 0.5
> -Simple compressed changeset: SharedStreams 1.0, Seaside 2.01, Telnet
> 300, SpaghettiTracer 0.3, SqueakMap 021023RC1, SqueakMap Browser 021023,
> SM Package Loader 0.92
> -DVS produced .st file: DVS 1.34 (I presume it is! :-))
> -DVS produced compressed .st file: Refactoring Browser 0.91
> -Squeak Archive .sar file (zip) multi changeset with preamble script:
> HttpView 021023
> 
> Of these 11 worked (but SpaghettiTracer depends on DVS so you must
> install DVS first) and 2 failed. 
I'll see how I can make this work better. This might require adding an
installer than understands Avi's new prelude/postscript stuff, but I'll
check that out and advise.

> -SWebMail refers to IADialog (?) so the fileIn fails (but SM Package
> Loader says "Download failed...").
I'll fix the wording.

[DNU when no servers reachable]
> Oops. Hmmm, didn't I check that case? I thought I did.
> Ah. Ok, it is SMLoader that opens up and obviously getting into a bug
> when the map is completely empty.
> So the DNU is a bug in SMLoader, but the real problem is that you don't
> get updated.
I'll go through everything and make sure I handle it when the Map isn't
initialized. Though if, as intended, we get the map to be installing
SMLoader, that won't be a problem.

> Have fun, Göran

Daniel Vainsencher