On 17-08-17 13:25, Luke Gorrie wrote:
I want to have a quick "cheat mode" for loading and saving the Smalltalk
packages in my project. This is to make life easy for newbies who are
not very familiar with Monticello and Metacello.
I'm afraid you might do newbies a disservice by adding yet another way
of loading and saving combinations of packages. Dependency management is
a 5-dimensional problem, so there are no solutions that are both simple
and cover the needed variation [1]. In the current discussions on
version management on this list the focus seems to be on the solving of
simple problems, whilst avoiding the question of how to deal with many
repositories. Metacello might not be ideal there, but it provides a
shared solution.
Stephan
[1] Peter van den Hamer & Kees Lepoeter (1996) Managing Design Data: The
Five Dimensions of CAD Frameworks, Configuration Management, and Product
Data Management
