Dale wrote:

In theory the Metacello configuration is created by the maintainers of the project

Yes - in theory ;)

There's no question that the folks managing that repository had a good reason for >doing what they did,

See http://lists.squeakfoundation.org/pipermail/squeak-dev/2010-February/144628....

If Pharo has it's own repository for things like FFI, etc. then the problem of >disappearing packages shouldn't happen.

Maybe by having an own SqS server (for Pharo only) with packages known to work (together with configurations). BTW: Linus on Git: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4XpnKHJAok8, interesting. Bye T. -- Sicherer, schneller und einfacher. Die aktuellen Internet-Browser - jetzt kostenlos herunterladen! http://portal.gmx.net/de/go/chbrowser