 Seaside 2.9 includes a tool that helps to manage packages, and _somewhere_ I have an image with that loaded and ready for shameless plagairism.  This seems like such a common task that there must be some good tools to handle it??
That's exactly Gofer. Seaside 3 is one of the reasons why I wrote it. Lukas
Bill
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goals?
Perform MC actions (load, update, merge, revert, commit, diff, recompile) on a set of packages.
So, not like Installer that can load packages from everywhere, Gofer will concentrate on MC? What about ScriptLoader?
ScriptLoader will certainly use gofer to install packages instead of installer
Stephane has mentioned Gofer before. Is in the plans to support only MC packages for Pharo and to use Gofer as the tool for load them on pharo.
Yes. Because in pharo we do not use anything else besides on changeset to kick in the load.
Or nothing has been decided yet? It is considered?
implementation?
Focus on keeping the system clean, e.g. no empty categories/ protocols, properly ordered categories/protocols, no duplicated repositories, etc.
Installer can't do that? Is a question, I don't know much about the internals of Installer.
Compared to sometimes ago they were cleaned but
speed?
Not optimized yet.
license?
MIT
Can you please give us a big picture of the role Gofer will have?
After discussion at  Esug between dale, lukas and me listening :) it seems that Metacello will use Gofer to load packages.
Now I think that you should give a try to Gofer and report what is missing or not. I have some behvaior I would really like to have (that are specific to ScriptLoader like tell me which packages have changed since a given marked period).
Lukas
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