Re: [Help-smalltalk] New packaging system

[Paolo Bonzini]

Luca Bruno wrote:
> Hello,
> i was thinking of splitting packages.xml into more files, or better:
> 1) Have packages.xml for specifying each packages path (for example 
> browser/ gtk.tar.gz, and so on)
> 2) Each package must have a package.xml containing its own informations
> 3) Use VFSHandler to handle packages, which can be directories or 
> archives
Sure, why not.  I agree with all of this (except that I would keep the 
possibility of a centralized packages.xml both for backwards 
compatibility and to ease pre-installation development).

My plan is to finish 2.3 as soon as possible and then (possibly on a new 
web site!) prepare a wishlist page for 2.4.

Paolo