On Jul 30, 2011, at 10:29 AM, Lukas Renggli wrote:
I played earlier with the "Configuration Browser" and wondered what it was all about ... After the following question on StackOverflow I played with it again:
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/6880596/how-to-browse-metacello-repositor...
Maybe it should be removed from Pharo 1.3, if the following issues cannot be fixed easily?
Yes, we should remove it as it is not used.
1. The windows is empty, refreshing leaves the window empty. This seems to be because <http://www.squeaksource.com/MetaRepoForPharo13> is an empty repository. It would probably be better to point it to <http://www.squeaksource.com/MetacelloRepository> which seems to be the repository with most configurations; or fill the other repository with some tested configurations?
2. The listing lists many packages that are clearly not configurations, e.g. Bogus-cwp.18, Illiad-Core0.1, ... Loading them opens a debugger.
3. The tool doesn't show me what configurations are already loaded (ok, that might not be implemented yet, but would be a key feature and easy to find out).
4. MetacelloConfigurationBrowser>>#refresh and MetacelloConfigurationBrowser>>#loadConfigurationWithLatest: duplicates the manual parsing of package filenames. This is bound to break. Why not use Gofer?
Cheers, Lukas
-- Lukas Renggli www.lukas-renggli.ch
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