well… after sending this mail I stayed thinking and I think something like this 
is precisely what I have to do :)
so I will do an important change to zeroconf to ensure newer versions do not 
screw with older ones. 

cheers, 
Esteban

> On 23 Mar 2015, at 09:06, Esteban Lorenzano <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> 
>> On 22 Mar 2015, at 22:56, Dale Henrichs <[email protected]> 
>> wrote:
>> 
>> Damien,
>> 
>> I'm using zeroconf for Pharo 1.2, 1.4 and 2.0 ... I still test Metacello 
>> against Pharo1.1 ... I would use zeroconf with 1.3 but there is something 
>> funkily different between what is available on zeroconf for 1.3 and what 
>> actually "works" for for 1.3 
>> (https://gforge.inria.fr/frs/download.php/30567/PharoCore-1.3-13328.zip).
> 
> why? I do not think anyone is using Pharo < 2.0 (and not even 2.0, with the 
> exception of some legacy apps)
> this “forever backward compatibility” ends up being really complicated. 
> 
> I want to deprecate zeroconf for, at least, all pharo < 2.0. 
> 
> why? 
> because the scripts right now downloads one unique vm for all images. Which 
> means download of sources V1, V2, V3… and starting next month V4. 
> I want to remove at least one of those sources. 
> 
> Also… the upcoming spur VM will add another level of complexity to zeroconf 
> scripts (because is everything goes smooth, Pharo5 will dispatch with spur, 
> without backward compatibility). So it will be another V5 + the different VM… 
> 
> What to do with those scripts? 
> 
> maybe deprecate the “vm” part, and replace it for: 
> 
> /vm1
> /vm2
> /vm3
> /vm4
> /vmN
> 
> … and /vm downloading the latest stable (/vm4, next month) 
> 
> but then… what to do with the 
> 
> /30+vm
> /40+vm
> 
> scripts?
> yes… they *could* realise link is talking to “convenient vm” so it would 
> download /vm3 and /vm4… but I’m describing the problem, who grows 
> exponentially. 
> Keeping “forever compatibility” is not good. 
> It does not work.
> It does not scale. 
> 
> Esteban
> 
>> Dale
>> 
>> On 3/13/15 5:04 AM, Damien Cassou wrote:
>>> Esteban Lorenzano writes:
>>> 
>>>> that… is someone using it?
>>> I think the pharo-users mailing list is more appropriate
>>> 
>> 
>> 
> 


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