On Sat, May 13, 2017 at 3:04 PM, Dale Henrichs <dale.henrichs@gemtalksystems.com> wrote:

Steph,

As Thierry mentions you should create an umbrella project for Pharo where you can maintain a list of projects contributed by users --- something like I've done for GsDevKit_home[1].

I strongly suggest that you use a "project load spec object"[2][3] as the unit of registration for your projects. In addition to the Metacello load instructions the "project load spec" can maintain a bunch of meta data about the project.

The pharo image can scan the projects listed (similar to what you do with the Category Browser - I think) or better yet, the developer can make a local clone of the project site in a well-known location and then all images can look up projects in this the local clone and avoid having to hit the network to build the project list ...

Take a look at the video or slides for my "Dangerous Liaisons: Smalltalk, files, and git"[4] for more details ... and of course I'm willing to discuss additional details/ideas over skype or email.

Dale

[1] http://gsdevkit.github.io/GsDevKit_home/

[2] https://github.com/GsDevKit/GsDevKit_home/blob/gh-pages/Seaside3.ston

[3] https://github.com/dalehenrich/tode/blob/master/.smalltalk.ston

[4] http://fast.org.ar/talks/dangerous-liaisons-smalltalk-files-and-git

On 5/13/17 12:01 AM, Stephane Ducasse wrote:

Hi guys

right now many people publish their software on SmalltalkHUB, SS3 and Squeaksource
and this is handy to find something.

I hope that we will release soon the package repository that christophe was developing but
now I'm wondering if we as a community should follow a pattern to help?

git freaks do you have suggestions

Stef