I don't need zeroconf for my Pharo1.1 app, either. Alternate download methods would be fine. I continue to support Metacello on all of the older versions of Pharo and I do use zeroconf there, but if there is an alternate download mechanism then I can use that for testing ... Dale On 3/23/15 1:16 AM, Max Leske wrote:
On 23 Mar 2015, at 09:06, Esteban Lorenzano <estebanlm@gmail.com> wrote:
On 22 Mar 2015, at 22:56, Dale Henrichs <dale.henrichs@gemtalksystems.com> wrote:
Damien,
I'm using zeroconf for Pharo 1.2, 1.4 and 2.0 ... I still test Metacello against Pharo1.1 ... I would use zeroconf with 1.3 but there is something funkily different between what is available on zeroconf for 1.3 and what actually "works" for for 1.3 (https://gforge.inria.fr/frs/download.php/30567/PharoCore-1.3-13328.zip). why? I do not think anyone is using Pharo < 2.0 (and not even 2.0, with the exception of some legacy apps) this âforever backward compatibilityâ ends up being really complicated. I am actually, Pharo1.1.1, Pharo1.3 and Pharo1.4 (donât judge⦠:) ). But I donât need the zero conf scripts for those.
I want to deprecate zeroconf for, at least, all pharo < 2.0.
why? because the scripts right now downloads one unique vm for all images. Which means download of sources V1, V2, V3⦠and starting next month V4. I want to remove at least one of those sources.
Also⦠the upcoming spur VM will add another level of complexity to zeroconf scripts (because is everything goes smooth, Pharo5 will dispatch with spur, without backward compatibility). So it will be another V5 + the different VMâ¦
What to do with those scripts?
maybe deprecate the âvmâ part, and replace it for:
/vm1 /vm2 /vm3 /vm4 /vmN
⦠and /vm downloading the latest stable (/vm4, next month)
but then⦠what to do with the
/30+vm /40+vm
scripts? yes⦠they *could* realise link is talking to âconvenient vmâ so it would download /vm3 and /vm4⦠but Iâm describing the problem, who grows exponentially. Keeping âforever compatibilityâ is not good. It does not work. It does not scale.
Esteban
Dale
On 3/13/15 5:04 AM, Damien Cassou wrote:
Esteban Lorenzano writes:
that⦠is someone using it? I think the pharo-users mailing list is more appropriate