[Cuis] Compatibility packages folder? (was Re: isXXX methods? (was Re: 4 additions to core?))

[Casey Ransberger]

I really like that our squeak compat pack is solid enough to load VMMaker. I think the current arrangement makes good sense. 

Git does have the overhead of "downloading the world" on an initial checkout, but keeping everything versioned together seems the best plan to me, at least right now. 

--C

> On May 18, 2015, at 5:37 PM, Juan Vuletich <juan at jvuletich.org> wrote:
> 
> Hi Hannes,
> 
>> On 5/17/2015 8:10 AM, H. Hirzel wrote:
>> Juan,
>> 
>> the new CompatibilityPackages has
>> 
>> - SqueakCompatibility
>> 
>> - VMMaker
>> - Balloon
>> 
>> in it. For SqueakCompatibility it is obvious that they are there. But
>> what about the other comparatively large packages. A README.md file
>> would clarify the situation why they are there.
> 
> Yes, we'd write some. At least, right now, let me say that that folder is for SqueakCompatibility.pck.st, and any other packages that depend on it. VMMaker, for instance, is a verbatim copy of current VMMaker for Squeak, without a single line of code changed. But this is open for discussion.
> 
> Thoughts?
> 
> Cheers,
> Juan Vuletich
> 
> 
>> --Hannes
>> 
>>> On 5/16/15, Juan Vuletich<juan at jvuletich.org>  wrote:
>>>> On 5/16/2015 4:48 PM, David Graham wrote:
>>>> 
>>>>> On 5/16/2015 1:19 PM, Phil (list) wrote:
>>>>>> On Sat, 2015-05-16 at 10:50 -0500, David Graham wrote:
>>>>>> Sounds fine to me, but I'm wondering if it would be a good time to
>>>>>> create a separate github repo for non-core packages?  It would be nice
>>>>>> to have a central place for packages which are not ready or don't
>>>>>> belong
>>>>>> in core.
>>>>> We already have an index of non-core packages.  Centralizing into one
>>>>> repo would defeat the whole point of git.
>>>> Sorry, for clarification I wasn't trying to suggest that we put every
>>>> package made for Cuis into a single repo, just the commonly used
>>>> ones.  Maybe just move what is now Packages into separate repo ?  In
>>>> all honesty, I don't have a strong opinion here, just brainstorming
>>>> ways to help grow the community and potentially lighten Juan's workload.
>>>> 
>>>> What I'd really like is to make all the legacy stuff like OSs, files,
>>>> and git go away. :)
>>> :)
>>> 
>>> BTW, I just did a commit, with a new folder CompatibilityPackages.
>>> 
>>> Cheers,
>>> Juan Vuletich
>>> 
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