[squeak-dev] Installer metacello

Tobias Pape Das.Linux at gmx.de
Thu Apr 30 08:12:58 UTC 2020


> On 30.04.2020, at 09:49, Marcel Taeumel <marcel.taeumel at hpi.de> wrote:
> 
> > Because that would essentially be Metcallo itself.
> 
> I think an additional way through the Installer protocol wouldn't hurt. Maybe "Installer metacello" could just return "Metacello new". Or directly map the #install call to Metacello in a custom InstallerMetacello as suggested:
> 
> Installer metacello "returns a new InstallerMetacello"
>    package: 'Xtreams'; "maps auto-magically to ConfigurationOfXtreams"
>    install.

I'd really like to _not_ have that.

The very point of Metacello is that you can say 

"Metacello new ..." on GemStone AND Squeak AND Pharo AND ...

and having multiple, platformspecific ways really is against that spirit.

Best regards
	-Tobias 


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