On 18 April 2012 17:19, Schwab,Wilhelm K <[email protected]> wrote:
> Stef,
>
> What about stable relative to a given version of Pharo?  I *really* think 
> that to be useful, Metacello needs to be consistent.  As it is, one seems to 
> be left looking at blessings and guessing at what might work.  The current 
> and occasional (and very helpful) "no, use THIS version..." is appreciated, 
> but hardly grounds for success.

"Stable version of foo relative to bar" means a having a
ConfigurationOfFooForPharo13, ConfigurationOfFooForPharo14,
ConfigurationOfFooForSqueak44, and so on.

That people don't write these configurations is not a failing of Metacello.

frank

> Bill
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> No stable measn stable and this is good
> Development means that you are developing and that people use at their own 
> risk
>
> Use stable to milestone.
> This way clients can work on your stable versions and milestone too their 
> software.
>
> On Apr 16, 2012, at 3:48 PM, Igor Stasenko wrote:
>
>> yes, we need to invent some conventions. Because different developers
>> using different names and different labels for configuration versions.
>> for instance, i avoid labeling versions as #stable , most of them are
>> #development..
>> for this reason, #lastVersion, #latestVersion loads either outdated
>> stuff, or even worse, a baseline..
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