2010/2/23 Torsten Bergmann <astares@gmx.de>
So you are educating them.... Frankly I stopped trying long time ago.
No, I just tell them what I think is necessary to move forward. Other may be more educated here, it is just sharing MHO so others can to form an own opinion.
Your mail is excellent and show very well the advantages of work with Metacello. When I read the first article about Metacello don't figured out is power until I invested some time to learn it and developed some "ConfigurationOf..." and currently I think is an invaluable tool that help to put Pharo/Squeak at the "next level" :)
Let's use our energy to move forward and (if possible) share as much knowledge and code as long as parts of our communities overlap.
I therefore would really like to see a common exchange mechanism used on both sides.
I'm sure I'm not able to convince one or the other to use package systems like Metacello but at least I hope to make them think about the need of a more modular system.
Package systems are needed to professional development and I think that Metacello is a very good tool. I'm happily using it. Germán.