2013/2/26 Marcus Denker <[email protected]>:
> On Feb 26, 2013, at 5:33 PM, "Esteban A. Maringolo" <[email protected]> 
> wrote:

>> If you count the number of packages in SmalltalkHub and compare them
>> to the ones in Npmjs.org, it is impressive how much we have.
> But isn't "package" more like "repository" on smalltalkhub?

It is a Project, but on the explore screen it says Packages, so... who knows? :)

But it is true that GitHub is to SmalltakHub what npm/gem is to...?

>> Of course NPM's user base is two orders of magnitude greater, but we
>> need to start having more killer app "modules", and some sort of
>> guideline for those starting with Pharo and/or Smalltalk.
> And we need a system in the first place like that… smalltalkhub is more for 
> code
> repositories, not in itself a repository of installable entities.

Yes, having packages as "artifacts" is more straightforward than the
configurations and all that jazz.

The MetaRepo is going in that direction, but I still think that
evaluating the install statements with Gofer or anything similar in a
Workspace is somehow alien for a non smalltalker.

There should be something that wraps Gofer and works like the apt, npm
or gem commands.

> So there is a lot of work ahead… but we will get there.

No doubts of that.


Regards!

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