On 26 February 2013 19:06, Esteban A. Maringolo <emaringolo@gmail.com> wrote:
Hi Frank,
2013/2/26 Frank Shearar <frank.shearar@gmail.com>:
On 26 February 2013 18:33, Esteban A. Maringolo <emaringolo@gmail.com> wrote:
But it is true that GitHub is to SmalltakHub what npm/gem is to...?
No. GitHub and SmalltalkHub are repositories. Rubygems for Ruby (or clojars for Clojure, or CPAN for Perl) - are like SqueakMap - catalogs that point to packages/applications.
That's exactly what I said, that GitHub and SmalltalkHub are analogous. But we also need something like rubygems or npm or CPAN.
I never used SqueakMap, so I can't tell. But if it is there, why is it not being used?
That's an excellent question, and one that Chris Muller and I would love an answer to. Partly it's because it's old and crufty. It could do with a rewrite, to be honest. But the idea is sound - the one place to go to find packages - and it works _today_. frank