[Moose-dev] Snapshot Release

Hi all, I like moose a lot, but I have a problem with the way the moose configurations are used. So I would like to discuss this on the developers list. I would like to know if more people experience these problems. First of all, I like the way the development works out. All development configurations simply do not use any version numbers, and therefor return the latest version. Maybe we should create an actual development version, that is empty, except for the packages we want to be a fixed version. But this is a minor point. But once moose is released, a snapshot is taken, it is no longer a proper configuration. Main drawback is that all groups and such are removed. But also referred configurations are no longer used. I believe it should be possible to upgrade to the stable version of a configuration in the place where a development version was used. Especially when the development version is released. Taking snapshots prevents this, since it no longer contains groups. Also I think that bug fixes of used configurations should be imported automatically. Taking snapshots prevents this, since they do not use used configurations. Finally there is a scenario that actually breaks configurations downstream. When I load version 1.6-baseline of PetitParser and sub sequentially ask for the current version, it returns 1.7-snapshot. But since I try to load the 'Core' group of PetitParser, I can no longer use my configuration. It simply halts on the error that the group 'Core' could not be found. I have two suggestions to improve the process: For the last suggestion I have updated my Metaceller tool (part of GToolkit). It is still beta, but it produces proper release version for a single configuration, based on the current state of the image. Regards, Diego