On 31 August 2011 23:19, Alexandre Bergel <[email protected]> wrote:
>> For development configuration is useless and just time sink.
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> I strongly disagree. Metacello was sold to please users. Actually, I use it 
> for me, the developper. I create a new version at each commit. It works 
> wonderfully.
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sorry, but if during development you need to do 2 commits of 20
packages , calculate how much time it would take for you to
manuallly update a configuration for each update.
it is time sink.

if you do that once per day, its okay.. but for every commit . no. its
is absurd.

> Alexandre
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>> But for release it has completely different purpose: it helps us to
>> identify what exactly and what version of it will be put in final
>> version. And gives a simple and concrete answer how to reproduce it,
>> in case of need.
>> Since we're are  talking about release, i don't see how we could do
>> that without configurations.
>>
>> Yes, sure it could be done manually to manifest all packages and their
>> version(s) included into release, but it still means that
>> someone has to do it one way or another.
>>
>>
>> On 31 August 2011 23:03, Stéphane Ducasse <[email protected]> wrote:
>>> Marcus
>>>
>>> We only do what is possible :)
>>>
>>>        - for the configurations of let us take what exist. We cannot 
>>> control everything. I do not have the time and knowledge for that.
>>>        Lukas decided that configurations are evil. Ok perfect now we fix 
>>> them when we know what should be loaded.
>>>
>>>        - Then for example to integrate the broken highlight I need the code 
>>> first. I still do not know which slice to load in 1.3.
>>>        Two days ago I spent time on it loading the wrong slice. So I 
>>> decided that I will not stress.
>>>
>>> So we will fix that either in 1.3 or in 1.4 as time allows it.
>>> And more more important: no stress we are payed enough to stress and do 
>>> stuff that hurts us.
>>>
>>> Stef
>>>
>>>> On Aug 31, 2011, at 8:22 PM, Lukas Renggli wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> The image contains outdated versions of RB and OB that miss some
>>>>> critical fixes.
>>>>
>>>> How can I know?
>>>>
>>>> It is is build using the latest MetaCello config... if the config needs to 
>>>> be updated,
>>>> it needs to be updated. It does not happen by itself.
>>>>
>>>>> Also there some proposed fixes don't seem to be
>>>>> included <http://code.google.com/p/pharo/issues/list?q=milestone%3D1.3>
>>>>> yet?
>>>>>
>>>> No... I have not yet found the energy to do that.
>>>>
>>>>       Marcus
>>>>
>>>> --
>>>> Marcus Denker -- http://marcusdenker.de
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