[squeak-dev] Easing into things...

Levente Uzonyi leves at elte.hu
Mon Jun 4 13:31:18 UTC 2012


On Sun, 3 Jun 2012, Bert Freudenberg wrote:

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> On 03.06.2012, at 03:45, Levente Uzonyi wrote:
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>> On Sun, 3 Jun 2012, Bert Freudenberg wrote:
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>>> On 03.06.2012, at 00:48, Frank Shearar <frank.shearar at gmail.com> wrote:
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>>>> I guess "update" means "ask the
>>>> repo for the latest stuff, and that just downloads the mcds".
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>>> Basically, yes.
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>>> Before that though, it makes sure all update config maps were loaded in order. But you can ignore that part unless you have changes that affect multiple packages, which must be updated in a specific order. Or if you need to ensure that a specific version was loaded before a newer version is safe to apply.
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>> Or when you want to ensure that your preamble/postscript is executed.
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> I don't think so. Why would you need a config map for that?

There are (at least) two cases when you want do that:
- when you want to make sure that the preamble/postscript is executed at 
a well defined point of the update process
- when you want to make sure that other commits won't remove your
preable/postscript by rewriting it


Levente

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