On 12 March 2012 21:23, Chris Muller <asqueaker at gmail.com> wrote:
>> I realise we're agreeing on the meat of the issue, so feel free to
>> ignore the following: the essential difference between writing a load
>> script and using Metacello is that if one of the packages I use - Bar
>> - upgrades something that _it_ uses (Baz) (and about which I don't
>> care), then without my doing anything more than saying "my package now
>> uses Bar 2", everything still Just Works. It delegates the
>> responsibility for building Bar to where it belongs, with the Bar
>> developers.
>
> This is exactly how SM handles it too, there is no difference here.
> The "head" release of Baz would load the head release of Bar. By
> selecting "install" on the head release, it merges the latest version
> of Baz without having to care about it.
>
> http://wiki.squeak.org/squeak/6182

But you can also fix the version of Baz, right? (Otherwise you
don't/can't know what you're actually building.)

frank