Frank,

I haven't tried the Metacello preview in Squeak4.4 yet, so I can't be sure that it works there. I've been testing against Squeak4.3...

Give me a couple of days to hook up Squeak4.4 in my travis ci framework and shake out any Metacello bugs related to Squeak4.4 and then you can take it for a spin.

Dale

----- Original Message -----
| From: "Frank Shearar" <frank.shearar at gmail.com>
| To: "ma chris m" <ma.chris.m at gmail.com>, "The general-purpose Squeak developers list"
| <squeak-dev at lists.squeakfoundation.org>
| Sent: Thursday, August 2, 2012 2:05:15 PM
| Subject: Re: [squeak-dev] Metacello and Squeak4.4
| 
| On 2 August 2012 21:49, Chris Muller <asqueaker at gmail.com> wrote:
| > If there's little or no danger of any serious regressions elsewhere
| > in
| > the system, then I'm +1.  Like Frank, I think it's important for
| > Squeak to continue to put out stable releases.
| 
| I need to hack on the CI server first, but if a kind soul wouldn't
| mind just loading Dale's mcz and running the full suite of tests, I'd
| be grateful. I don't see how that could cause regressions, but I'm
| paranoid.
| 
| > Dale, your efforts on cross-platform are amazing, thanks!
| 
| Seconded!
| 
| frank
| 
| > On Thu, Aug 2, 2012 at 3:33 PM, Dale Henrichs <dhenrich at vmware.com>
| > wrote:
| >> I have a small 3 class package (Metacello-Base[1]) that I would
| >> hope could be included in the Squeak4.4 release.
| >>
| >> Of the 3 classes, the Metacello class is a stub class for the
| >> Metacello Scripting Api[2], that will bootstrap Metacello _if_
| >> you use the scripting api. I am promoting the scripting api as
| >> the cross platform way to use Metacello. Instead of seeing
| >> install scripts fly by that look like this:
| >>
| >>   Gofer new
| >>     package: 'ConfigurationOfSeaside30';
| >>     squeaksource: 'MetacelloRepository';
| >>     load.
| >>   ((Smalltalk at: #ConfigurationOfSeaside30) version: #stable)
| >>   load.
| >>
| >> (with the caveat that Installer should be used for Squeak)...the
| >> install scripts will look like this:
| >>
| >>   Metacello new
| >>     configuration: 'Seaside30';
| >>     version: #stable;
| >>     squeaksource: 'MetacelloRepository';
| >>     load.
| >>
| >> The same script will "do the right thing" on all three supported
| >> platforms (Squeak, Pharo, GemStone), presuming that the class
| >> Metacello is present in the base images:)
| >>
| >> I've recently released a preview version[4] and am actively
| >> collecting feedback. I would think that I can finalize the
| >> visible portion of the scripting api by September...
| >>
| >> I've been ensuring that the metacello preview release is
| >> functional on Squeak all along and I am currently running CI
| >> builds against Squeak4.3 using travis ci[5]. Moving forward I
| >> would add Squeak4.4 to the list of platforms for CI and publish
| >> updates to the Metacello-Base pacakge as needed.
| >>
| >> The class comments for each of the classes provides basic
| >> documentation for using Metacello so I think that Metacello-Base
| >> is a clean and small presence for Metacello and will enable the
| >> use of "cross-platform install scripts for Metacello."
| >>
| >> Thanks,
| >>
| >> Dale
| >>
| >> [1]
| >> http://seaside.gemstone.com/ss/metacello/Metacello-Base-dkh.96.mcz
| >> [2]
| >> https://github.com/dalehenrich/metacello-work/blob/master/docs/MetacelloUserGuide.md
| >> [4]
| >> http://forum.world.st/Metacello-Preview-release-1-0-beta-32-2-tt4642064.html
| >> [5]
| >> http://travis-ci.org/#!/dalehenrich/metacello-work/builds/2012331
| >>
| >
| 
|