On 10/22/16 7:01 AM, Dimitris Chloupis wrote:
I really like STON , even more than I like JSON. Very readable and
easy to edit format. Very good idea, I would probably something
similar but less more elegant.
This is why I'm threatening to create MetacelloProjectLoadSpec ... not
to be elegant but to save you the work of creating such a beast on your
own ... I really think there can be great advantages to have a sharable
and customizable load spec object ...
You probably know this, but if you host the ston configurations files
as you do in that link , Github gives you the ability to directly read
files from inside a git repo without having to download it via its
blob directory. So one could keep those ston config files in a repo in
git and have access to it from any computer , any OS, of course under
the condition he/she is connected to internet.
I have collected a number of the TDProjectEntry objects up on the
GsDevKit_home project on the gh-pages branch and I a variant of the load
command that works with an url:
project load --url=http://gsdevkit.github.io/GsDevKit_home/Metacello.ston
That directly downloads form web ... I put things on disk, so that the
developer can download the official object to a known location on disk
and then edit/customize the object for her own use.
Then build scripts will use the object from the directory by default and
each image shares the same custom load specification object.
[1] https://github.com/GsDevKit/GsDevKit_home/tree/gh-pages
This trick is what I used for checking whether there is a new version
of my project ChronosManager in my git repo. I added the latest
version in the RELEASENOTES text file that is located on the top level
repo which it compares with its internal versions (just a class
variable) and if it finds it bigger it alerts the user for an update.
https://raw.githubusercontent.com/kilon/ChronosManager/master/RELEASENOTES.md
Ah yes, it would be much more convenient to get the load specification
object directly from the project itself ...
Dale
