On Wed, Nov 30, 2011 at 12:10 PM, Sven Van Caekenberghe <sven@beta9.be> wrote:

On 30 Nov 2011, at 11:55, Mariano Martinez Peck wrote:

> Yes, I gave up a couple of weeks ago: http://marianopeck.wordpress.com/2011/11/08/migrating-projects-to-squeaksource3/

Very nice writeup, Mariano. Thank you!

The problem is of course less one's own packages, but the big packages we depend on, Seaside, Glorp, XMLSupport, �

yes :(
But... what I do for my images (http://marianopeck.wordpress.com/2011/11/19/loading-projects-and-building-your-own-images-with-metacello/) is to use the same package-cache for ALL images. Since I am building all the time, it is likely all needed mcz will be in such package-cache. If you use the last version of those packages (seaside, glorp, etc), then it will load the last one found in package-cache. If you use a fixed version, if it is found, not problem. If it is not found -> error.

So...in my builder, I can do GeneralImageBuilder buildOffline: true.
THen:

loadPackages: packagesOrGroups
�� | version repo |
�� self generalPreLoad.
�� version := (ConfigurationOfMariano project version: #bleedingEdge).
�� self class buildOffline
�� ifTrue: [
�� repo := MCDirectoryRepository new.
� �� repo directory: self sharedPackageCacheDirectory.
�� version repositoryOverrides: (OrderedCollection with: repo).
�� ].
�� version load: packagesOrGroups.
��

Conclusion: 90% of the times, I am able to recreate an image from my own package-cache.

Cheers