[Moose-dev] Re: Metacello and suffixes in package names

On 9/11/15 6:52 AM, Thierry Goubier wrote:

Hi Usman,

as far as I know, I see two things:

• Metacello and Monticello have no true concept of branch names in

their code; there is code where when you decode a package version name, you throw away some of the name to keep only the package name, the version and the author.

I prefer to state this slightly differently:)

Monticello has no first class support of package branches. The naming convention referred to by Thierry is only a file naming convention.

Metacello _honors_ the Monticello naming convention, by allowing you to specify that a branch be used by allowing you to associate a filename with a package:

spec package: 'Seaside-Core' with: [spec file: 'Seaside-Core.gemstone' ]

Dale