[squeak-dev] Re: Cross fork development model

Douglas Brebner squeaklists at fang.demon.co.uk
Thu Jul 16 08:32:43 UTC 2009


Joshua Gargus wrote:
> Keith Hodges wrote:
>> Andreas Raab wrote:
>>   
>>> Keith Hodges wrote:
>>>     
>>>> Looks like you have forked PackageInfo now...  
>>>>       
>>> For factual reference, I used the version that was in Croquet because
>>> it has seen years of use and I trust it. It itself is based on
>>> PackageInfo-avi.20 which is straight from the horse's mouth as far as
>>> I am concerned.
>>>
>>> If you have a better version, how about contributing it to the trunk?
>>>     
>> Absolutely not.
>>
>> MC is maintained as an external package, once for all, the repository is
>> open. It is not maintained in trunk, nor should it be.
>>   
>
> Can you explain why?  Consider the following (please grant me the
> first point, in the interest of a meaningful discussion):
>
>
Isn't keeping MC in the trunk directly contradictory to the whole point
of seperating the image into packages and splitting them out? Won't it
also make using MC in other smalltalks gratituously harder?





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