On 28 sept. 2010, at 21:30, Mariano Martinez Peck wrote:

> What I would love is a UI for GoferProjectLoader from Esteban. I mean, we 
> have the apt-get but we need now synaptic :)
> 
> And....if we plan to do what I say in the email about Pharo and Metacello, 
> having something like that is very, VERY useful. From my point of view, even 
> more than a Metacello browser.


That's too different usages, which are complementary: GoferProjectLoader is for 
end-users, while I'm thinking more of a browser for developers, when they have 
to create a new release and check there configuration is consistent. Right now 
it's quite a pain, ask Jannik who did the 4.1 Moose :)


> 
> Cheers
> 
> Mariano
> 
> 2010/9/28 Simon Denier <simon.den...@inria.fr>
> 
> On 28 sept. 2010, at 15:14, Guillermo Polito wrote:
> 
>> Okok, I saw there already exists a Configuration browser :P.  But it can be 
>> reaally improved.
> 
> 
> Which one are you talking about? The one in 1.2? Or on Squeaksource?
> 
> There have been multiple efforts (GTMetaceller, MooseDevBrowser...) already 
> to try and see what we would like to do in a browser. But there are also some 
> performance issues with Metacello right now, which makes it impractical to 
> browser config. which Dale and Alex have started to tackle them.
> 
> Anyway, the latest effort (started during ESUG) is there: it is basically a 
> rewrite of what have been done in the tools above (with still some missing 
> parts).
> 
> MCHttpRepository
>     location: 'http://www.squeaksource.com/MetacelloBrowser'
>     user: ''
>     password: ''
> 
> 
> Note, it requires Glamour and is more of a testbed than a fully-supported 
> tool for now.
> 
> 
> 
>> 
>> On Tue, Sep 28, 2010 at 10:00 AM, Guillermo Polito 
>> <guillermopol...@gmail.com> wrote:
>> I'm always reading people saying that metacello configurations are some kind 
>> of... overdesign.  So, maybe we need a tool (or to modify monticello 
>> browser) wich allow us to:
>> 
>> - know wich packages are core and dev.  Sometimes using a dev image, I write 
>> things depending on Dev packages and I don't realize it.
>> - create automatically or propose configurations depending on the actual 
>> state of the packages.
>> - browse configurations nicely :).  It's a new concept, we need a nice tool 
>> to support it.
>> 
>> Maybe if the configs are easily created, we can have more of them, and we 
>> will be no longer so lazy.
>> 
>> Cheers,
>> Guille
>> 
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