Just to be clear, SqueakMap is not a VCS but a portal.  Since it's just a
database of Smalltalk scripts, it works as a portal to configure via
anything -- Monticello, Git, Bitbucket, SVN, CVS, ENVY, whether a
development workstation or end-user app.  It's meant to be the place that
answers the question, "How do I load XYZ package?"

 - Chris

On Sat, Sep 12, 2020 at 2:19 PM Thiede, Christoph <
Christoph.Thiede at student.hpi.uni-potsdam.de> wrote:

> Hi all,
>
>
> maybe I am missing some central Squeak tool, but I have never been
> happy with the current way to update all installed third-party packages in
> Squeak - because I don't know anyone. Please allow me to give you a short
> outline of the tool I would like to use for updating packages:
>
>
> There should be a simple button in the Squeak Menu, just below "Update
> image", named "Update packages", that enables you to install the latest
> versions of all installed packages for which a remote does exist.  In
> addition, if I made any change to a package, it should be possible to
> merge the updates into my working copy. In particular, this does not only
> include Squeaksource packages but also packages from GitHub, BitBucket,
> etc. Great packages such as Autocompletion, MethodWrappers, Vivide, or
> Squot (see below) that are all hosted on GitHub and can be installed using
> a Metacello script.
>
> So how much of this is reality and how much is fiction today?
> For packages installed from Squeaksource, I can open them in the
> Monticello Browser and load or merge the latest version. At least, this
> works, but we could need a button to do this for all available packages
> where a "default remote" is selected.
> But for packages managed via git, this is not possible at all! The
> Monticello Browser does not know their remote repositories that were used
> to install the packages originally. Without extra settings made per
> repository baseline, you cannot even re-load a package again via the
> install script, see also this open issue:
> https://github.com/Metacello/metacello/issues/513 Meanwhile, I have made
> a habit of cloning all interesting projects via Squot in order to update
> them, even if I do not plan to commit to them ...
>
> I believe there is also something like SqueakMap which has an "Update" and
> an "Upgrade" button, but this tool is only made for accessing the
> Squeaksource, is this correct? From what I can see, Squeaksource and
> SqueakMap have become less important compared to GitHub (the reasons
> might include better visibility/explorability of projects, a more efficient
> VCS, and features like issues/pull requests; but that's probably not the
> point here).
>
> What do you think? Am I the only one facing this issue? How would a
> roadmap for such a tool look like? Looking forward to your ideas! :-)
>
> Best,
> Christoph
>
>
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