3.6 full packages?

Andreas Raab andreas.raab at gmx.de
Mon Oct 4 00:46:13 UTC 2004


Hi Goran,

> Now... you may recall a discussion we had in Stockholm over a beer
> regarding immutability etc? ;)

I do, but I think it'd be more worthwhile to have the packages in full be 
redistributed alongside the basic image so that if people want to they can 
easily upgrade their basic to full image (incidentally I wouldn't mind a 
full snapshot of SM either - just something so that it's very clear which 
version has been used and where to get it).

>> though there were some very strange oddities: If
>> you take a 3.6 and open the package loader it tries
>> to update SqueakMap (and miserably fails if you say yes)
>
> It does? (checking...) Hmmm, just tried a 3.6-basic 5424 - worked for
> me.

I just tried it again and now it worked. Odd indeed. Could this be related 
to some sm cache not being deleted?

>> but if you don't it gives you a series of
>> releases which don't even show if you go to SM in the browser.
>> Very, very odd.
>
> Not odd to me :) - if you say no... it can't update the map.
> So you are looking at an old map. Perhaps it should warn though.

But then, why are the versions in the old map no longer present in the new 
map? Say, if I look at the old map I see VMMaker as version 3.6g (with a URL 
which later results in a 404) whereas in a "new" map I see versions 3.7b4 
and 3.7b5 but *not* 3.6g. And please note that this map comes from the same 
server so I would expect some amount of consistency here.

Cheers,
  - Andreas




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