2013/2/26 Marcus Denker <marcus.denker@inria.fr>:
On Feb 26, 2013, at 5:33 PM, "Esteban A. Maringolo" <emaringolo@gmail.com> 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!