Absence of Metacello won't help you dealing with dependencies and loading stuff by using hand-made scripts by dozens of people written at different points in time and not maintained by anyone.
It may be too complicated to use, especially at earlier stages of development, and in situations, when all you need is to use latest versions of everything available (aka #bleedingedge). But always staying on bleeding edge hurts a lot (that's why it called so) and it is conscious choice of many professional developers to base own development on latest but stable versions of dependencies. Simply because then you have more time focusing on what you want to do, instead of fighting with various bugs and drastic changes and updates in numerous dependencies. And this is where tools like Metacello helping a lot. Because once you define stable point, you can always be sure that you can reproduce it at any moment and load without problems. And no, script on which you spent 1 minute and placed on pastebin doesn't helps in such situation. It just contributes even more mess to what is already there. -- Best regards, Igor Stasenko.
