[ANN] SqueakMap 1.08

goran.krampe at bluefish.se goran.krampe at bluefish.se
Wed Jul 30 08:50:27 UTC 2003


Doug Way <dway at riskmetrics.com> wrote:
> 
> On Tuesday, July 29, 2003, at 07:47 PM, Avi Bryant wrote:
> 
> > So, like Ned, I recommend that DVS not be auto-installed.
> 
> Also, we should keep in mind that the 3.6beta image has 
> SqueakMap+SMLoader+PackageInfo+SARInstaller included, which is 
> basically the original SM bootstrap, except it includes PackageInfo 
> instead of DVS.  We had a discussion about DVS vs. PackageInfo around 
> that time and decided to go with PackageInfo for the current (Basic) 
> image.

Ah. We did? Probably, my memory is short. Ok then.

> I'd think we'd want the bootstrap & the image to have the same 
> packages, so whatever we decide, they should be the same.  We've been 
> treating the 4 packages on SM as the "master" copies, which get added 
> to the update stream occasionally, so the image always follows.
> 
> Hmm, actually the "SqueakMap" bootstrap package is not really useful 
> for 3.6, since the 3.6 (Basic) image already includes these 4 
> packages...?  Although perhaps it is still useful as a one-click 
> upgrade of all 4 packages.  It's certainly still important for 3.5 and 
> previous.

I will look it through and see if we should rename it to "SqueakMap for
3.4/3.5" or something.

> - Doug

regards, Göran



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