I played earlier with the "Configuration Browser" and wondered what it
was all about ... After the following question on StackOverflow I
played with it again:

   
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/6880596/how-to-browse-metacello-repositories-in-pharo-smalltalk

Maybe it should be removed from Pharo 1.3, if the following issues
cannot be fixed easily?

1. The windows is empty, refreshing leaves the window empty. This
seems to be because <http://www.squeaksource.com/MetaRepoForPharo13>
is an empty repository. It would probably be better to point it to
<http://www.squeaksource.com/MetacelloRepository> which seems to be
the repository with most configurations; or fill the other repository
with some tested configurations?

2. The listing lists many packages that are clearly not
configurations, e.g. Bogus-cwp.18, Illiad-Core0.1, ... Loading them
opens a debugger.

3. The tool doesn't show me what configurations are already loaded
(ok, that might not be implemented yet, but would be a key feature and
easy to find out).

4. MetacelloConfigurationBrowser>>#refresh and
MetacelloConfigurationBrowser>>#loadConfigurationWithLatest:
duplicates the manual parsing of package filenames. This is bound to
break. Why not use Gofer?

Cheers,
Lukas

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Lukas Renggli
www.lukas-renggli.ch

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