Em 04/01/2010 06:24, Mariano Martinez Peck < marianopeck@gmail.com > escreveu:
Please, don't say "NOOOOO!" immediately. Read the mail carefully, take a deep breath and think cold. After working a couple of weeks in the Metacello configurations and now with Damien's scripts to build Dev and Web images, I came to the question: Do we really need a PharoWeb image? I will give just my opinions of why having PharoWeb images is not a good idea anymore [snipped]
On the whole I appreciate and agree with the reasoning.
Here is my proposal: 1) Completely remove the idea of PharoWeb image. Remove the links from the website and do not create Web images any more.
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2) In http://www.pharo-project.org/pharo-download add a description explaining that now Seaside images are based in Pharo, so you can directly download that image. We can even explain a bit about seaside, and even if you want you can put a href called "PharoWeb" which links to the seaside image. However, I would rather call it "PharoSeaside".
I think here we have to work hard to stress this fact since IIUC the /pièce de résistance/ for Pharo is having all production work done by Seaside.
3) Tomorrow we can have AidaWeb images based in pharo (please Janko!!) so we can just do the same and put the link to those images.
While I'm fond of the idea on having AidaWeb very soon as possible, I also think we should put ourselves in Janko's shoes and understand that he'll need to master Metacelllo to arrive at the packaging. . .
4) You may notice that Seaside images are a bit "different" than our Dev images. This is mostly due to the preferences, the theme and maybe some tools (ECompeltion instead of OCompletion, etc..). So, what I suggest is to prepare a little script that can be downloadable and those people who want a Seaside image but more "similar" to our Dev images, just run that script.
I would postpone the publishing of these kind of scripts for a much more stable Pharo and Metacello (or packaging solution ensuing), otherwise you'll have the same work as testing the scripts means creating and testing the packages!!
So...what do you think? I would really like to hear your opinion about this.
my 0.01999999.... -- Cesar Rabak