Some remarks about the whole project

[feldti]

I read the documentation again and again and I have problems to get an overview:

What is a "product" (well its a Gemstone product download), what is a "project". What is a "projectSet" ? What are "templates" ? How can I add an own template stone database to the registry ?

And please:

• be NOT git centric - I went again back to simple http directories to load my software packages produced by Jade
• perhaps one should force the users to use their own git server and not depend on github.
• do not think that an access to the internet is always possible when installing Gemstone
• an installation should be possible from a simple template database
• reduce the number of touched external repository to an absolute minimum (best: only one repository like github or own git server)
• if you do caching, then please make possible to turn off ...

Marten

[dalehenrich]

@feldti, I appreciate your comments ... I happen to maintain this product because I think something like this (and GsDevKit_homes previously) is required ... but I don't have the cycles to do all of the things that should be done for this project ... I have a hard enough time finding the cycles to do the things that must be done ...

Anyway, I encourage you and others to make improvements where you can and submit pull requests with your work ... I happen to be a terrible writer and I have a hard enough time finding the time to keep the code in working order, so documentation improvements would be appreciated ...

[dalehenrich]

be NOT git centric - I went again back to simple http directories to load my software packages produced by Jade

That is your choice, but the days are numbered for the http sites used to store monticello repositories, so be aware that github and git is the future ...

With that said, it should be possible to add Monticello repository support GsDevKit_stones ... I will not add this feature but if you have the cycles to add Monticello support to GsDevKit_stones, please do so ...

[dalehenrich]

perhaps one should force the users to use their own git server and not depend on github.

GsDevKit_stones supports http and ssh git repositories and noone is forcing you to use github ... internally we have our own git server and I have project sets that interact with our ssh git repositories...

During the tODE image creation process there are still some network repositories that are hit (those happen to be Monticello repositories) .. and it should be possible to customize the image creation scripts to avoid hitting the network ...

I have a long term goal to make it possible to create images without hitting the network .. but I have lots of long term goals and not enough cycles to address them in a timely fashion ...