I understand that since the whole development will be Git-based, then the configurations will be pretty much obsolete.
Alexandre > On Apr 15, 2017, at 6:08 PM, Tudor Girba <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hi, > > I do not quite understand the benefit of removing Configurations in Pharo 6. > Is there a benefit that I do not see? > > Cheers, > Doru > > > >> On Apr 14, 2017, at 2:24 PM, Pavel Krivanek <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> >> >> 2017-04-14 14:20 GMT+02:00 Andrei Chis <[email protected]>: >> >> >> On Apr 14, 2017 14:13, "Pavel Krivanek" <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> >> 2017-04-14 12:52 GMT+02:00 Andrei Chis <[email protected]>: >> Isn't it a bit too late for such a change? Might break projects that expect >> configurations to be present. >> >> I do not think so. We do not have configurations for the system itself >> (well, we have them in an external repository but they are not update since >> switch to baselines). They are used only for the actively maintained >> semi-external projects like GT, QA, Epicea, Zinc etc. However even in that >> case they are sometimes out-of-sync with the upstream. >> >> Most users of such configurations are using the upstream configurations. If >> some one is using wrongly the versions in Pharo, he uses reference to the >> Pharo repository where the configurations will still be present. >> >> For the record, I still think it's not the best idea to do this now :) >> >> Probably :-) In the end, the users that have troubles with it can easily do >> it during preparations of their images too. >> >> -- Pavel >> >> >> Cheers, >> Andrei >> >> >> Cheers, >> -- Pavel >> >> >> Cheers, >> Andrei >> >> On Fri, Apr 14, 2017 at 1:07 PM, Pavel Krivanek <[email protected]> >> wrote: >> Hi, >> >> in Pharo 7 all configurations will be removed and replaced with the >> baselines. The bootstrapped image itself does not load the configurations at >> all. Most of them is now outdated and old versions of configurations in the >> standard Pharo image can cause problems for users of newer versions >> semi-internal packages (like Moose-Algos). >> >> So we, me and Cyril think that we should remove all current Configurations >> from the image just before the Pharo 6 release. Do you see any disadvantages >> of this step? >> >> Cheers, >> -- Pavel > > -- > www.tudorgirba.com > www.feenk.com > > "Reasonable is what we are accustomed with." > > -- _,.;:~^~:;._,.;:~^~:;._,.;:~^~:;._,.;:~^~:;._,.;: Alexandre Bergel http://www.bergel.eu ^~:;._,.;:~^~:;._,.;:~^~:;._,.;:~^~:;._,.;:~^~:;.
