Of course. But, that will only be applicable to people using Pharo 7 and 
beyond. For people using Pharo 6, they will still rely on how the code was 
packaged for that release. Or did I miss something?

Doru


> On Apr 15, 2017, at 11:11 PM, Alexandre Bergel <alexandre.ber...@me.com> 
> wrote:
> 
> I understand that since the whole development will be Git-based, then the 
> configurations will be pretty much obsolete. 
> 
> Alexandre
> 
> 
>> On Apr 15, 2017, at 6:08 PM, Tudor Girba <tu...@tudorgirba.com> wrote:
>> 
>> 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 Most of them is now outdated and old versions of configurations in 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
>> 
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>> "Reasonable is what we are accustomed with."
>> 
>> 
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