[squeak-dev] Squeak 4.3 Installer update

Chris Muller ma.chris.m at gmail.com
Tue Mar 26 16:28:41 UTC 2013


> I suppose I'm half asking whether Monticello package names should have
> any meaning across repositories. Would people expect
> Installer-Core.fbs.999 in squeak43 to mean the same thing as
> Installer-Core.fbs.999 in squeak44? _I'd_ expect not (in which case
> the right thing to do is backport the one change I want), but my
> question is what _others_ expect.

It's the 99% case that Monticello version names are unique, but the
UUID of the PackageInfo is all MC has for truly unique identification.

I think code should try to rely on the uuid and not on the names being
unique, but sometimes there may be no other way to achieve a
particular goal..


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