Thanks by the responses.


2008/5/15 Keith Hodges <keith_hodges at yahoo.co.uk>:

> Germán Arduino wrote:
>
>> I'm asking again....then.....if I'm a user of SqueakMap, all will continue
>> working?
>>
> Definitely.
>
>> If I'm a user of Universes, all will continue working?
>>
> Yes
>
>> If I don't have plans to use Sake/Install/etc.....can deatch of them?
>>
> Installer is designed to be the first dependency in a kernel image that can
> be used to load everything else. So I would like to promote it's inclusion
> in as many base images as possible. However it is purposefully implemented
> as ONE class in order to make it very easy to remove.
>
> Sake/Packages is also designed to be very easy to remove if it is loaded.
> It is deigned to be able to load , use AND discard if you like your images
> really lean.
>
>> If I'm a Squeaker with not much time to be aware of all the news all the
>> time, because must work on projects to pay the bills, I've option of
>> ignoring this several ways of installations and packages?
>>
> of course, ignore away!
>
>> If I develop my own software in the form of traditional Monticello .mcz
>> packages, I can continue at this way?
>>
> Sake/Packages, SqueakMap, Installer and Universes all use Monticello so yes
> you keep using Monticello as normal.
>
> The easiest way to understand Sake/Packages is to think of it as the same
> as Universes for loading and unloading Monticello packages that have
> dependencies upon other packages. I believe that Sake/Packages is better
> than Universes in many ways, but then I am totally biased since I wrote it.
>
> The significant difference between sake/packages and universes is that the
> former is open to all, whereas universes can be updated only by package
> maintainers. This means that sake/packages is likely to be more agile, and
> up to date.
>
> Currently there is an automatic task which updates Sake/Packages from
> Universes and from SqueakMap. There is nothing preventing someone from
> writing a task to go the other way in order to keep everything in sync.
> (except of course Universes would have to be globally writable by the person
> performing the update).
>
>  Sorry if a lot of questions, but I'm a bit confused with all these new
>> things related to packages.
>>
>>  no worries
>
> Keith
>
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