How many repositories does it take to screw in a lightbulb?

Cees De Groot cdegroot at gmail.com
Sat Oct 22 17:24:41 UTC 2005


That might be a good idea. We're heavy NIH sufferers (for good reasons
in most cases ;-)), but explaining our world in terms of better known
tools may help in bridging...

On 10/22/05, karl <karl.ramberg at chello.se> wrote:
> Simon Michael wrote:
>
> > Cees De Groot wrote:
> >
> >> You're mixing up two very different things. SqueakMap is a catalog
> >> system, Monticello a versioning system.
> >
> >
> > Here's an analogy for folks familiar with the open source world. From
> > most hairy to most stable, we have:
> >
> > - SqueakSource is like sourceforge.net. It provides central hosting
> > for  code under development, with monticello revision control (and rss
> > feeds, project wikis etc.)
> >
> > - SqueakMap is like freshmeat.net. It is a central directory providing
> > standardized information about all kinds of downloadable packages. The
> > packages may be uploaded to squeakmap or linked from elsewhere.
> >
> > - Package Universes are like a gnu/linux distribution such as debian.
> > They are a set of packages which have been selected from squeakmap and
> > undergone more QA and integration work - testing, fixes, dependency
> > information - so that you can install any of the packages and expect
> > it to work.
> >
> > - Update streams, which are provided for some of the major squeak
> > images, used to be the main way of installing updated and new code,
> > like debian's unstable update stream. They are increasingly being used
> > in a more limited way, more like the security updates which linux
> > distributions provide for their major releases.
> >
> > The boundaries between these are not always sharp, there is ongoing
> > experimentation in adding the features of one to another (eg kabungu
> > adds dependency information to squeakmap).
> >
> >
> >
> >
> Thank's for this explaination. I'm thinking of using it on squeak.org
> Karl
>
>
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