[squeak-dev] http://source.squeak.org/inbox emptied

Folks -

As mentioned out earlier, I have emptied the inbox and moved the
remaining packages into the treated repository. Specifically this affected:

* Collections: The unresolved discussion about #flatten vs. #flattened
(see [1], [2])
* CollectionsTests: Tests for both versions
* AlienInstaller: The installer package for Alien

The latter raises an interesting question: Is there a need for some
"extras" repository where community-relevant packages can be stored that
aren't really part of the trunk? AlienInstaller would be one of those
and there may be others. Such packages definitely don't belong into the
inbox (the purpose of the inbox is to identify contributions quickly,
deal with them, and move them into treated) but they are also not part
of the trunk (the installer really being a meta package). I could see
that an "extras" repository might prove useful here. Thoughts?

The good news is that the inbox is empty now and looking for more
contributions. Keep 'em coming!

[1]http://lists.squeakfoundation.org/pipermail/squeak-dev/2009-September/139616.html
[2]http://lists.squeakfoundation.org/pipermail/squeak-dev/2009-September/139962.html

Cheers,
   - Andreas

Wow! Good work!

Gulik.

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http://gulik.pbwiki.com/

I think an extras repo would be cool. I'm in the midst of some
experiments with factoring a skinning infrastructure out of Polymorph,
and when I come up with the right approach, it won't look much like
polymorph anymore (I could create a new project on Squeaksource.com)
and won't be stable enough to go into a base image any time soon. One
of the design decisions I've made is to throw out compat with forks,
so it does make sense to track the work along side that of the trunk.

Another good reason to have an extras repo is: people who are doing
work on applications which don't belong in a base image will have the
opportunity to participate in the process with the same tools that the
trunk uses. So we'll feel the same pain with the outages, etc. This
encourages people working on their own projects to contribute fixes to
squeaksource, etc.

On Tuesday, October 6, 2009, Michael van der Gulik <[hidden email]> wrote:
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Ron

On 08.10.2009, at 10:18, Ronald Spengler wrote:

While I agree having an extras repo would be good, I wouldn't see it  
as repository for applications. Those have a fine place at squeaksource.com
  IMHO. "Extras" on source.squeak.org would rather contain stuff  
specific to Squeak trunk, no?

- Bert -