[squeak-dev] GitHub package management beta

Ben Coman btc at openinworld.com
Wed Jun 7 16:34:16 UTC 2017


On Wed, Jun 7, 2017 at 9:56 PM, Bert Freudenberg <bert at freudenbergs.de>
wrote:

> On Wed, Jun 7, 2017 at 3:16 AM, Eliot Miranda <eliot.miranda at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> Hi All,
>>
>>     I've been invited to participate in github's Bera test of their new
>> package management support.  I don't know much, if anything, about the
>> software except that it supports RubyGems (Ruby), Maven (Java) and npm
>> (JavaScript) formats.  My contact at github has asked me to supply a list
>> of email addresses of those who would like to test the software.  The
>> contact will provide documentation.
>>
>> If you would like to participate please reply to me using this same
>> subject line and including in the body of the message the email you'd like
>> used.  Please do top post.
>>
>
> ​See below ;)​
>
> Maybe we could get github to directly support Monticello.  Maybe this
>> could achieve some simplifications and ease some tensions.  I don't know.
>> But I'm intrigued.
>>
>
> Package management is not the same as version control ... MC is version
> control, whereas we use config maps / SqueakMap / Metacello for package
> management. ​Sounds more like when you do a release​ on github, they would
> automatically push a release to the npm and gems database.
>
> Jakob (cc'ed) is working on full MC/git/github integration for Squeak, so
> he may be interested, but I'd think we should get the basics covered before
> getting github to do something specific for us. We don't know what we would
> need, yet.
>
>
Thats very interesting to hear.  Do you know if the will follow Pharo's
Iceberg model, or Cuis' git interface (which I'm not familiar with) or
something else?

cheers -ben

P.S. I'm not sure if I should have seen the CC to Jakob in my mail headers?
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