[squeak-dev] Gofer versus Installer was: The Trunk: Morphic-laza.489.mcz

Ken G. Brown kbrown at mac.com
Mon Dec 13 21:04:01 UTC 2010


At 9:23 PM +0100 12/13/10, Bernhard Pieber apparently wrote:
>Hi Ken,
>
>If you ask... ;-)
>
>Am 13.12.2010 um 18:21 schrieb Ken G. Brown:
>> I for one do not want to see Installer disappear.
>> Can anyone explain to me what advantage GoFer has over Installer?
>> Seem to me they are doing more or less the same thing.
>I like Gofer better than Installer for the following reasons:
>- Gofer has an active maintainer, the original author still maintains it.
>- Lukas writes top quality Smalltalk code IMO. I find the code cleaner. (That, of course, may just be my personal preference.)
>- Gofer is much smaller than Installer - 640 lines of code versus 1703 - thus the image would be smaller if we replaced Installer with Gofer.
>- At the same time Gofer has more functionality which I find quite useful, committing, fetching and pushing. See http://www.lukas-renggli.ch/blog/gofer for a short description.
>- Installer has a lot of code which is rarely used.

Installer docs <http://installer.pbworks.com/w/page/19997682/Installer>

Thx for your response.

I agree, bringing Pharo and Squeak closer together could be a good thing.

Ken


>- Installation code for packages which are compatible between Squeak and Pharo could be the same in many cases, which I find less confusing.
>- This brings Squeak and Pharo closer together again, which would be a good thing IMO.
>
>Enough reasons in my opinion. Of course, reasonable people might disagree. ;-)
>
>Cheers,
>Bernhard




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