> For FileTree repos it is even better to just load the package (Monticello > does a good job of only loading the changed packages and we're looking at > packages already on disk) ... ... I have an extension to Metacello for > Filetree repos (it's only been around for about 3 years) that ignores > version numbers and "loads" all of the packages from the the repo (I > mentioned _this_ to Thierry:) ... which for FileTree repos is actually the > proper behavior ... I happen to be very busy at the moment so I don't have > time to blow the dust off of that extension ... the big gotcha is everyone > has to have the extension present in their image for this kind of thing to > work and AFAIK pharo is not kept up-to-date with the latest versions that I > publish on github, so I'm afraid that much breakage would ensure if only a > few individuals started using this extension ... Seems to be that we're > stuck between a rock and a had place... I wish there was a better way to > keep the Metacello distribution up-to-date in images that I have no control > over ... > > FWIW, I've found that if I manually flush the cache for each package before > I save it, I don't have to wait the minute or so for all of the repos to be > refreshed ...
Dale, will you please publish this stuff somewhere, with dust on, as is? (Or tell us where we can find it). We've just battled sooo much in this area. I wonder if it is worth it to think again about this whole git / monticello / metacello thing. For me, it's just too much to comprehend. As soon as I dig into something here, I get lost within minutes. I believe the complexity has to do with trying to maintain too many different ways of solving the problem. We are trying to keep things (Monticello / Metacello) working with or without git or filetree or whatever else people are using. I would really like to do merging in git and just have a fast and simple way of loading / compiling into an image (and GemStone). I do not want a package cache, 3 way merging and all the other things, because it makes what I end up with unpredictable. But you see, other people want to work in other ways, which I understand. My perception is that the result is messy. We should try to strive more towards *fewer* ways of doing things, without killing innovation to try different ways. It feels as if there are enormous, yet very incomplete silos of efforts to solve problems.
