What I would like is that the published conf in the distro projects should get 
loaded, tests run.... automatically.

Stef

On Aug 17, 2011, at 8:14 PM, Johan Brichau wrote:

> Maybe a bit of wishful thinking but…
> 
> Ideally, I think of the metacellorepository as a kind of 'smart folder' where 
> all metacello configurations of public repositories are automatically 
> included. 
> Something like a smart mail folder on mac mail.
> 
> Having two locations with the same package almost always leads to confusion / 
> mistakes / forgetting / etc…
> 
> Would such an 'automatic' repository be possible to implement in 
> squeaksource3 and/or smalltalk hub? 
> 
> Johan
> 
> On 17 Aug 2011, at 20:01, Stéphane Ducasse wrote:
> 
>> 
>> The policy should be
>>      - put a configurationOf in your package
>>      - publish when you want a copy of it in metacellorepository
>> 
>> I will sit with dale sunday because we want the "publish" to copy all the 
>> dependent package also in the DistributionMetacelloRepository
>> 
>> On Aug 17, 2011, at 8:59 AM, Max Leske wrote:
>> 
>>> I would like to complain a bit about the current way Metacello 
>>> configurations are distributed in different repositories. I ended up using 
>>> the wrong configuration for two different projects twice in just two days. 
>>> Apart from the date in the configuration file (and possibly the version 
>>> number, although that's not as reliable) there's no easy way to tell which 
>>> configuration is the most recent.
>>> 
>>> Some people seem to have adopted MetacelloRepository as the standard 
>>> repository for all configurations, others keep the configuration for a 
>>> project in the project repositories and a third group uses both 
>>> repositories (where one repository contains outdated versions of course…).
>>> 
>>> Can we please agree on a simple policy on where to store the configuration 
>>> for a project? I am sure that this would make life easier for all of us.
>>> 
>>> Cheers,
>>> Max
>> 
>> 
> 
> 


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