Hi,
I must come back to one of the balkanization and lack of stability that
most upset me.

Imagine that you are developping a cross dialect library, say for
Squeak/Pharo and why not Gemstone.

Imagine that this library has a few dependencies to some other libraries,
either Core like Alien/FFI or more exotic third party also available in
other dialects.

The question are:
-1) where are you supposed to maintain your own ConfigurationOf*?
-2) where are you supposed to find the ConfigurationOf* dependencies?

Once upon a time, the answer would have been
http://www.squeaksource.com/MetacelloRepository

But now, what is it? I see surprisingly few updates here (apart from Sven
and a few others).

How can the Metacello feature of supporting cross-dialect work if the
dialect specific configuration of dependencies are scattered all around the
web?

Do the CPAN or PyPI have to change their URL each time a new release of
perl or python is released?

Careless decisions in this area can easily sabotage the cross-dialect
initiative.

Maybe I'm ranting by ignorance.
I wish your answers will reassure me.

Nicolas
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