[ANN] New version of SmaCC-Development on SM: 1.4

Colin Putney cputney at wiresong.ca
Mon Feb 9 17:52:38 UTC 2004


On Feb 9, 2004, at 11:35 AM, Brent Vukmer wrote:

>
>> I'd actually go further and say that anyone with an account should be
>> able to post a release of a package to SqueakMap. It just has to be
>> clearly displayed in the PackageLoader and web site who made the
>> release.
>
> Alternate package releases! Yeah yeah yeah!
>
>> Maintainers should have control over the main entry and be
>> able to delete other people's releases. As long as you can't spoof
>> someone else's identity there's no danger of trojan horses and such.
>>
>
> I guess maintainers should be able to delete alternate package
> releases... Although that could be annoying in the case where a package
> owner is both (a) slow to release enhancements to their package and (b)
> testy about other people creating alternate package releases.

As Avi said, social pressure can deal with that. If that actually 
becomes a problem, it's not a tools issue so much as a social issue. 
The solution is a new maintainer, which can always be done just by 
forking the package (license permitting, of course).

This is probably a long-term solution, though, as it would probably 
require changes to the SqueakMap model as well as better branching 
support in SqueakMap and Monticello.






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