As an FYI... for those using Metacello... In Metacello you can arrange to override the repositories used for loading ... useful in cases where servers are down or offline/not accessible for other reasons ...saves you from having to edit configurations ...
I use the override for creating a repository from scratch (bootstrapping from a local disk-based repositories) when the configurations that I'm using reference the public HTTP repositories. Dale ----- "Wilhelm K Schwab" <bsch...@anest.ufl.edu> wrote: | Adrian, | | You are correct, it does contain them (thanks for mentioning that). | Saving my own copies _is_ a problem, but fortunately I do not need to | do so. | | How do you enforce local loads? Do you insist on downloading | everything yourselves, or do you have some type of lazy download with | cancel capability? In an ideal world, I would hope to see a tool that | tries to download the latest versions, shows progress toward same, and | accepts user interaction to head off a hopeless situation like today. | If the user cancels the download, then there would be an option to | install from the local repository. | | Bill | | | | -----Original Message----- | From: pharo-project-boun...@lists.gforge.inria.fr | [mailto:pharo-project-boun...@lists.gforge.inria.fr] On Behalf Of | Adrian Lienhard | Sent: Monday, November 09, 2009 2:31 PM | To: Pharo-project@lists.gforge.inria.fr | Subject: Re: [Pharo-project] Not a disaster (this time) | | Hi Bill, | | At netstyle.ch and Cmsbox we have the rule that all projects have to | be completely loadable from our own MC repository. I suggest to do the | same for the reasons you mention below. You never know what happens to | external resources... | | Storing a local copy with MC should not be a problem. Actually, the | package-cache folder should already contain the file. | | Cheers, | Adrian | | On Nov 9, 2009, at 19:54 , Schwab,Wilhelm K wrote: | | > Hello all, | > | > I am trying to be a good tester, and have been shot in the foot now | | > for a couple of days. That's no great loss, but a similar set of | > circumstances could be very ugly in the future. My ailing build | > process for RC1 is thwarted by source.squeakfoundation.org's being | > offline. Imagine a deadline (paying customer, mission-critical | gizmo, | > grant submission - whatever haunts you) and being stuck. | > | > I have even tried to save the FFI packages locally, and that seems | to | > go haywire over talking to the server. Having chosen the package | name | > and a local repository, I would expect MC to take the code it has | > locally and save it to my local drive, but apparently that's not | what | > it does. | > | > There is no need for urgent action (this is only a drill<g>), but | > there should be some redundancy in where the code is stored, and MC | > should not prevent my saving code I already have to my local drive. | | > There isn't (at least not that I can find), and it does :( | > | > Bill | > | > | > _______________________________________________ | > Pharo-project mailing list | > Pharo-project@lists.gforge.inria.fr | > http://lists.gforge.inria.fr/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/pharo-project | | | _______________________________________________ | Pharo-project mailing list | Pharo-project@lists.gforge.inria.fr | http://lists.gforge.inria.fr/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/pharo-project | | _______________________________________________ | Pharo-project mailing list | Pharo-project@lists.gforge.inria.fr | http://lists.gforge.inria.fr/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/pharo-project _______________________________________________ Pharo-project mailing list Pharo-project@lists.gforge.inria.fr http://lists.gforge.inria.fr/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/pharo-project
