I agree. Keep it simple ;)


On Thursday, March 6, 2003, at 08:18 PM, Colin Putney wrote:

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> On Thursday, March 6, 2003, at 09:57  AM, Brent Vukmer wrote:
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>> Colin --
>>
>> I don't think that's an argument for not registering 
>> packages-that-aren't-quite-packages-yet.  Instead, it's an argument 
>> to enhance PackageLoader so that if filters the list to hide PTAQPY's 
>> by default.
>
> Ok, so then we'd have a package in the SM database that's neither 
> installable nor visible in the list. How does that help us?
>
> Now, I love SqueakMap as much as the next guy. But let's not go 
> overboard here. SM is a catalog for packages that are not in the 
> image. It provides a way to easily find and load these packages. It's 
> *not* a registry of Squeak development efforts. That's what the Swiki 
> is for.
>
> A package should be registered on SqueakMap when it can be downloaded 
> and installed into the image. What's the rush? The KCP may not produce 
> a separately loadable package. It *is* the kernel we're talking about 
> after all. Or it may produce several packages, that break various bits 
> of functionality out of the kernel. We don't know yet.
>
> Colin
>
> Colin Putney
> Whistler.com
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