Package Universes and Squeakmap

23 Aug 2007 17:39:48 -0400, Lex Spoon <[hidden email]>:
Exactly whom did you mail this code? Neither Adrian nor Lukas nor me
did receive any mails.

> I got no reply, and last I
> heard the SqueakMap button didn't work any longer.

It doesn't work because HTTPSocket is broken a bit more than it was before.

Cheers
Philippe

I've added a SqueakMap link to the package model for package
universes.  Using this, you can now add a link to a SqueakMap package
UUID if there is one for your package.  SqueakMap supports more
information about a package than package universes does, so
maintaining a SqueakMap entry is a nice thing to do.

Here is what you need to do to add a SqueakMap UUID to a package
universes package.

Update your universes installation to at least version 36.  Open a
universes editor and do "new package version" on the package you want
to update.  It is not good practice to overwrite a package entry that
has already been published and in use, so add a "-2" or similar to the
end of the version number.  Change it to -3, etc., if you need to do
any other updates before the next up-stream version of the package
comes out.

Next enter a SqueakMap UUID for the package.  Usually you can just
click the "guess" button beside the SqueakMap field.  This will look
for a SqueakMap package with the same name as your package-universes
package.  If that does not work, you could try browsing to the
SqueakMap web page for your package in any browser.  The URL will
include the UUID.  If neither of these works, feel free to email me so
we can try and figure out what the package's UUID is.

That's it -- post the new package and it should work.  Open a universe
browse--without updating!--and you can see and test your new package
entry.  The SqueakMap links appear in the package description field,
right beside the hompage link and maintainer email address.


The tool support for this link, as you will see, is limited right now.
At least, though, there is now a link within the model.  This link is
available to any future tools that want to reason about publicly
shared Squeak packages.


Lex

"Philippe Marschall" <[hidden email]> writes:
> 23 Aug 2007 17:39:48 -0400, Lex Spoon <[hidden email]>:
> > I would like there to be an easy way to post to both indexes in
> > addition to others.  That's why I emailed the SqueakSource maintainer
> > with code that posts a release to a package universe, in the same way
> > SqueakSource used to do this to SqueakMap.
>
> Exactly whom did you mail this code? Neither Adrian nor Lukas nor me
> did receive any mails.

March of 2005.  :) There's nothing private in it, so I'll append it,
although really the best place to go is the wiki page that has been
made since then:

  http://wiki.squeak.org/squeak/5899


> > I got no reply, and last I
> > heard the SqueakMap button didn't work any longer.
>
> It doesn't work because HTTPSocket is broken a bit more than it was before.

Right, I didn't mean to point fingers anywhere.  It is simply
unfortunate that nobody has bothered to get this working again.  I
used it all the time when it worked.

I seem to recall some mailing-list discussion on this issue, and what
I recall is that it has something to do with redirects in response to
a POST.  I'm not sure, though.  A little googling over the mailing
list would probably turn it up.


-Lex


X-Mailer: Celeste 2.0..6599
Date: Wed, 9 Mar 2005 21:19:11 -0400
Subject: posting packages to a Universes server
To: [hidden email]
From: "Lex Spoon" <[hidden email]>

Hey, Lukas,

SqueakSource rocks!  One of the niceties about it is that you have added
a button for publishing to SqueakMap.  If you would like to do the same
for Universes, I have appended the code.  Just load YAXO and Universes
from SqueakMap, and the below code should work.

Ideally, the code should not have this hack about "m class ==
UMAddPackage".  Instead, you should ideally add a #applyToSqueakSource:
method to appropriate classes in the UMessage hierarchy, and then use
polymorphism on the resulting classes.  However, this simple hack should
show how to get started.

The basic outline of the code is:

        1. create the package object
        2. create a universes client
        3. send an "add package" message using the client
        4. wait for a response from the server

The client will handle all of the networking for you.


Regards,

Lex Spoon

========
newPackage _ UPackage new.
newPackage name: 'BBBPackage'.
newPackage depends: #('dependency1' 'dependency2').
newPackage description: 'here''s an example package'.
newPackage homepage: 'http://www.squeak.org' asUrl.
newPackage url: 'http://www.squeaksource.com/whatever' asUrl.
newPackage version: (UVersion readFromString: '1.0').
newPackage maintainer: 'Joe Blow <[hidden email]>'.

client _ UUniverseClient forUniverse: UUniverse developmentUniverse.
client sendMessage: (UMAddPackage username: 'USERNAME' password: 'PASSWORD' package: newPackage).

[true] whileTrue: [ client receivedMessagesDo: [ :m | m inspect.  m class == UMPackageAdded ifTrue: [ ^self ] ]. (Delay forSeconds: 1) wait. ].

El 8/31/07 1:44 PM, "Lex Spoon" <[hidden email]> escribió:

> Update your universes installation to at least version 36.


I do for 3.10 this week end.

Any ideas to auto look for new versions of loaded packages and nice to have
into base image ?

Edgar

31 Aug 2007 13:02:35 -0400, Lex Spoon <[hidden email]>:
I can't make any promises but I'll have a look at it.

Cheers
Philippe

"Edgar J. De Cleene" <[hidden email]> writes:
> El 8/31/07 1:44 PM, "Lex Spoon" <[hidden email]> escribió:
> > Update your universes installation to at least version 36.
>
> I do for 3.10 this week end.
>
> Any ideas to auto look for new versions of loaded packages and nice to have
> into base image ?

You can use the package universes tool for this.  Open it, click
"update", and then click "select upgrades".

It's not automated, but it is straightforward.  If you wanted to
automate it, somebody could write a little "update alerter morph" that
sat in a corner of your screen and watched for available Squeak
updates.



-Lex