On 21 January 2011 18:48, Dale Henrichs <[email protected]> wrote:
> On 01/21/2011 08:11 AM, Miguel Cobá wrote:
>>
>> El vie, 21-01-2011 a las 11:05 +0100, Igor Stasenko escribió:
>>
>>> Okay, i found the solution. Use Installer !
>>>
>>> Installer monticello http: 'http://www.squeaksource.com';
>>>      project: 'VMMaker';
>>>      install: 'CMakeVMMaker'
>>>
>>>
>>> works well for me and loads correct *latest* version.
>>
>> That isn't a solution and open again a gratuitous discussion about gofer
>> vs installer.
>>
>> The point is, in a distributed SCM system, like Monticello is, there
>> isn't a latest version. At least not by the traditional (suversion for
>> example) way of knowing the monotone numeric integer version number. As
>> Lukas said, the only way to know something is latest is to compare
>> timestamps, but not version numbers or commits id. They aren't not
>> intended to be ordered respect to time.
>>
>> Cheers
>>
>
> It seems to me that that isn't quite the issue ... for Metacello I had to
> change the sort algorithm that Gofer used to more closely match the
> algorithm used by the Monticello GUI when it sorts packages ... to minimize
> the surprise for developers who are used to the Monticello GUI sorting
> order... I also had to change the branch naming scheme that was used by
> Gofer, because it caused problems when package names inadvertently looked
> like a branch to Gofer when it wasn't...Since there has never been an
> enforced naming convention in Monticello, there are a whole lot of
> incompatible naming schemes being used...
>
> BTW, I made these changes so that they only applied to Metacello's use of
> Gofer ...
>
good to know
> Dale
>
>



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Best regards,
Igor Stasenko AKA sig.

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