Hi, I do not quite understand the benefit of removing Configurations in Pharo 6. Is there a benefit that I do not see?
Cheers, Doru > On Apr 14, 2017, at 2:24 PM, Pavel Krivanek <pavel.kriva...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > 2017-04-14 14:20 GMT+02:00 Andrei Chis <chisvasileand...@gmail.com>: > > > On Apr 14, 2017 14:13, "Pavel Krivanek" <pavel.kriva...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > 2017-04-14 12:52 GMT+02:00 Andrei Chis <chisvasileand...@gmail.com>: > Isn't it a bit too late for such a change? Might break projects that expect > configurations to be present. > > I do not think so. We do not have configurations for the system itself (well, > we have them in an external repository but they are not update since switch > to baselines). They are used only for the actively maintained semi-external > projects like GT, QA, Epicea, Zinc etc. However even in that case they are > sometimes out-of-sync with the upstream. > > Most users of such configurations are using the upstream configurations. If > some one is using wrongly the versions in Pharo, he uses reference to the > Pharo repository where the configurations will still be present. > > For the record, I still think it's not the best idea to do this now :) > > Probably :-) In the end, the users that have troubles with it can easily do > it during preparations of their images too. > > -- Pavel > > > Cheers, > Andrei > > > Cheers, > -- Pavel > > > Cheers, > Andrei > > On Fri, Apr 14, 2017 at 1:07 PM, Pavel Krivanek <pavel.kriva...@gmail.com> > wrote: > Hi, > > in Pharo 7 all configurations will be removed and replaced with the > baselines. The bootstrapped image itself does not load the configurations at > all. Most of them is now outdated and old versions of configurations in the > standard Pharo image can cause problems for users of newer versions > semi-internal packages (like Moose-Algos). > > So we, me and Cyril think that we should remove all current Configurations > from the image just before the Pharo 6 release. Do you see any disadvantages > of this step? > > Cheers, > -- Pavel -- www.tudorgirba.com www.feenk.com "Reasonable is what we are accustomed with."
