Jason Johnson wrote:
On 11/1/07, Jason Johnson jason.johnson.081@gmail.com wrote:
The only people who are supposed to publish packages to a Universe are the package maintainers, and they are not supposed test everything when they bring a new package in.
Ugh, what an embarrassing typo. I need to upgrade my proof reader! :)
I figured it was a typo ;-) So the basic difference between SM and Universes is that the latter uses a community policy (you "ought" not to put bad things there) right? This sounds reasonable but can we then please drop the silly nonsense about "guaranteed to work together"? If you need a catchy marketing phrase, how about "community tested"? (in the best of all worlds this is just what it would be)
Also, this only seems to emphasize the complementary nature of Universes and SM. If, say, Universes would use SM as their "backend-storage" you could have your cake and eat it too: Sets of community-tested packages that are available for one-click install, and "all code ever written for Squeak" available on SM for historical or porting purposes.
Cheers, - Andreas