[squeak-dev] The Trunk: Monticello-bf.449.mcz

Levente Uzonyi leves at elte.hu
Wed Apr 6 21:55:50 UTC 2011


On Wed, 6 Apr 2011, Ken G. Brown wrote:

> At 3:26 PM +0200 4/5/11, Levente Uzonyi apparently wrote:
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>>> If the Ocompletion script requests the version 'Ocompletion-ul.94', then this method should not even be invoked, it should just use that version, no?
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>>> Maybe the Ocompletion script is wrong (I did not check), or Installer needs to strip off the '-ul.94', or the version name parser needs to be more intelligent about recognizing versions vs. packages. But this method needs to work if it is passed a correct package name, and that's why I reverted it.
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>> It's not about Ocompletion, it was just an example. Installer originally supported these kind of scripts, so we should restore this feature, because I guess quite a few exsisting scripts rely on this. The bad thing is that we have no tests for Installer, thats why such a basic feature could be broken silently.
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> There are Installer related tests in what used to be the externally managed Installer repository http://www.squeaksource.com/Installer
> Trunk started with an old version of Installer so there are probably a lot of other fixes in there too that might be harvested by someone knowledgeable.

Thanks for the pointer, we will include them. Matthew updated Installer to 
the lastest version some time ago, so we aren't much behind that 
repository. I'll check if it's worth merging anything else from there.


Levente

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