7.6: Chapter Summary
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Gofer provides a robust and stable implementation to script the management of your packages. When your project grows, you should really consider using Metacello (see Chapter 9).
In this chapter, we introduce how we can script package with Gofer.
- The method
loadallows us to load packages from sources given with the methodurl:andpackage:. - The method
url:supports FTP and local directory access. - The API provides some useful shortcuts:
smalltalkhubUser:project:is a shortcut for http://www.smalltalkhub.com,squeaksource3:for http://ss3.gemtalksystems.com/ss/ andgemsource:for http://seaside.gemstone.com/ss/. - We can load several packages by calling the method
package:multiple times before callingload. - Once a Gofer instance is parametrized, one can perform a number of relevant operations:
update,merge,push, . . .