I'm planning a major upgrade to SqueakMap later this year that keeps
the existing model but server and UI upgraded to an AppStore-like
experience.  It'd be great to have GitInfrastructure and Metacello
entries in there along with some of the interesting git-based projects.
A consistent one-click experience to "load anything" is good for
Squeak.  One click would get you the whole way there (configuring a
new image) instead of only half way as when starting in the Do menu.
Easier for others to bootstrap and look.  Maybe participate.

Best,
  Chris






On Tue, Apr 2, 2019 at 8:17 PM Chris Muller <asqueaker at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On Tue, Apr 2, 2019 at 7:08 PM Levente Uzonyi <leves at caesar.elte.hu> wrote:
> >
> > On Tue, 2 Apr 2019, Chris Muller wrote:
> >
> > > Hi Jakob and Tim R.,
> > >
> > >>> I understand that you like Metacello and GitInfrastructure and may
> > >>> wish to promote their use to others, but as Karl mentioned we already
> > >>> have existing places in the IDE dedicated to package installation, we
> > >>> should not introduce another new place, especially one so orthogonal
> > >>> to its regular purpose.  I guess you wouldn't to see "Installer
> > >>> installMagma" in there, right?
> > >>
> > >> On the other hand, installing Metacello is nearly every time the first thing I have to do in a fresh Trunk image to load any projects from GitHub with their dependencies.
> > >> The shorter the way to install Metacello, the better. I was delighted to have it in the menu. Not that I particularly like Metacello, but I *need* it.
> > >
> > > You need a proper solution to dependency management, adding our
> >
> > You mean a tool like Metacello?
>
> In this case Metacello is a pre-req package needing loaded,
> so, no.  Are you making a joke?
>
> It should be handled the same as everything else:  a script that
> checks / loads Metacello and then the dependent app, and store that
> script in SqueakMap.
>
>
>
>  - Chris