> On 2020-04-30, at 1:57 AM, Marcel Taeumel <marcel.taeumel at hpi.de> wrote:
> 
> Installer has a very big advantage: its name. That name is descriptive und discoverable. We should benefit from that and evolve Installer into something we all like. :-)
> 
> Best,
> Marcel
>> Am 30.04.2020 10:54:43 schrieb Tobias Pape <das.linux at gmx.de>:
>> 
>> 
>> > On 30.04.2020, at 10:21, Marcel Taeumel wrote:
>> > 
>> > Installer can become a great starting point for code and resource loading for all kinds of local experiments. Including file-in from the file system. It might already be: Installer class >> installFile:.
>> > 
>> > So, Installer is at a different abstraction level and has different use cases compared to Metacello.
>> 
>> Seems like it, but it ultimately waters down and mixes installations of different abstractions.
>> That is probably wrong.
>> 
>> For me, Installer currently is not more than a shim atop Monticello. All other usecases of it have either vanished or are better expressed declaratively (as in Metacello).
>> 
>> Best regards
>> -Tobias
>> 
>> 
> 


tim
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