Iterative development with MCConfigurations

stephane ducasse stephane.ducasse at free.fr
Thu Dec 14 19:40:46 UTC 2006


Yes! This is the kind of mechanisms I was thinking about. I did  
something similar because
we could not use MCConfig for 3.9. It would be good to put this  
behavior with MCConfig.

>> stephane ducasse wrote:
>>> But why we can't you save your MCConfig in a method of a class  
>>> that you version.?
>>
>> That's what we also do, but that is a little more complicated. For  
>> most people just saving a properly named MC config is just what  
>> they need :-)
>
> That actually works quite well. impara developed it for Plopp. In  
> principle, you just have a MC package with one class having a  
> number of configuration methods. This package is updated, and the  
> latest config in it is then loaded. You can see a public version of  
> that in Sophie:
>
> 	http://source.sophieproject.org/Sophie.html
>
> Look at class SophieReleaseBuilderDeveloper (in package Sophie- 
> Releases). On the class side you can see all the configuration  
> methods. This is a subclass of
>
> 	ConfigMapReleaseBuilder (in package Deployment-Configs)
>
> which contains the configuration-to-method conversion routines.
>
> - Bert -
>
>
>
>




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