[squeak-dev] Re: [Release] The role of Bob, Installer & Co.

David T. Lewis lewis at mail.msen.com
Sun Jul 5 20:34:04 UTC 2009


On Sun, Jul 05, 2009 at 07:34:42PM +0100, Keith Hodges wrote:
> David T. Lewis wrote:
> >   
> > I want to mention that from the point of view of someone who maintains
> > external packages, it is *hugely* helpful to me to have the update
> > stream in addition to complete images. I've been maintaining some of
> > these packages for a long time, so I speak from experience and it
> > matters a lot to me.
>
> Thats what Bob is for.
> 
> Bob will keep continuously building and testing your package into all
> images that you want to maintain it in. It will also allow others who
> have forks you have never even heard of to do the same. You wont have to
> manually fight with updates or images.

Yes, I understand. I'm speaking about my own experience. I am an
individual contributor working with a small laptop computer supporting
a number of external packages. So I am just pointing out that for my
purposes the update stream is extremely helpful.

Dave




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