There is no magic if as a programmer we do not define the dependencies we cannot do anything. ;) so we should define configurationOf and we will take real advantages of them.
Now if you read the vision document you will see what we want: we want a distribution that will be filled up automatically by executing configurations that are published in an inbox and validated (tests run, SmallLint rules run). Then we will be able to have a one click install of projects that are certified to load in a given image. Stef PS: SqueakMap failed because you had no idea is the package would load in your image. Believe me I know why I want the distribution infrastructure. On Feb 26, 2013, at 7:33 PM, Esteban A. Maringolo <emaring...@gmail.com> wrote: > 2013/2/26 Marcus Denker <marcus.den...@inria.fr>: >> On Feb 26, 2013, at 5:33 PM, "Esteban A. Maringolo" <emaring...@gmail.com> >> wrote: > >>> If you count the number of packages in SmalltalkHub and compare them >>> to the ones in Npmjs.org, it is impressive how much we have. >> But isn't "package" more like "repository" on smalltalkhub? > > It is a Project, but on the explore screen it says Packages, so... who knows? > :) > > But it is true that GitHub is to SmalltakHub what npm/gem is to...? > >>> Of course NPM's user base is two orders of magnitude greater, but we >>> need to start having more killer app "modules", and some sort of >>> guideline for those starting with Pharo and/or Smalltalk. >> And we need a system in the first place like that… smalltalkhub is more for >> code >> repositories, not in itself a repository of installable entities. > > Yes, having packages as "artifacts" is more straightforward than the > configurations and all that jazz. > > The MetaRepo is going in that direction, but I still think that > evaluating the install statements with Gofer or anything similar in a > Workspace is somehow alien for a non smalltalker. > > There should be something that wraps Gofer and works like the apt, npm > or gem commands. > >> So there is a lot of work ahead… but we will get there. > > No doubts of that. > > > Regards! >