On 2012-07-04, at 16:55, Sean P. DeNigris wrote:
Camillo Bruni-3 wrote
Another stuff I simply do not get is package-cache. Why is it local to every other Pharo image? Why can't I say drop all below package-cache on my machine that's it. I do not know how many copies I have around here with the same "information". I can not see why this should make sens in the "standard" case....
you're absolutely right :)
Here in lille almost everybody sets up symlinks to have a single shared instance of a package-cache :)
Really?! I haven't gone this route yet because I read that the performance was really slow. Is that no longer the case? How about on 1.4?
no! I patched MC's caching behavior in many places, plus with the new FS primitives you're pretty fast. For instance, browsing the commit history is fluent once you have all the packages in your cache. AFAIK under 1.4 I added most of the optimizations as well, but I cannot guarantee anything :P