[squeak-dev] Cuis updated to #0176

Juan Vuletich juan at jvuletich.org
Thu Apr 9 13:10:45 UTC 2009


K. K. Subramaniam wrote:
> On Wednesday 08 April 2009 10:49:19 pm Juan Vuletich wrote:
>   
>> I don't think that SARInstaller is essential. I think it is an optional
>> package.
>>     
> This is true in theory but not workable in practice. Cuis plans to remain slim 
> and depends on external packages to grow, it needs to have *a* package 
> loader. Supporting SARInstaller may look like extra effort, but the 
> alternative is for the image to support *any* package loader. This will open 
> a can of worms as users try to track dependencies across packages loaded by 
> different loaders.
>
> Please reconsider .. Subbu
>   
The default package loader is just file-in changesets. Anybody wishing 
to use any other package loader is encouraged to do so. Same for any 
functionality not included in Cuis. So go ahead and do it! Your 
experience might be useful for others.

Cheers,
Juan Vuletich



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