[squeak-dev] FunTrunk
Ken Causey
ken at kencausey.com
Mon Nov 16 18:47:34 UTC 2009
On Mon, 2009-11-16 at 08:00 -0800, Colin Putney wrote:
> On 16-Nov-09, at 6:25 AM, David T. Lewis wrote:
>
> > I am not a Monticello expert, but I wonder what others think of
> > Edgar's extensions for storing non-code things in an MC archive?
>
> I haven't looked at Edgar's work in particular, but I have to say I
> don't like the general trend of using MC as deployment tool rather
> than a development tool. MC was not designed for deployment, but the
> fact that individual versions in an MC repository can be referenced by
> URL make it really tempting to just skip the whole packaging-for-
> deployment step and just deploy straight out of the repository. I
> think this weakens MC as a development tool, while also obscuring the
> weaknesses in our deployment technologies.
>
> Edgar mentioned SAR, which is the best deployment technology we have
> at the moment. What's missing from SAR that requires MC provides? I
> think it would be better to add (deployment) functionality to SAR than
> to MC.
>
> Colin
+1
Ken
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