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I get questions on a regular basis about "goodies" - how to submit them to Cincom so that they'll end up on the product CD in the goodies directory. We have a process for that, and it's documented here. The short answer:
It is possible to submit goodies for inclusion in the /goodies/other directory in VisualWorks releases.
This mechanism was created to allow goodie maintainers to be able to update their packages in an automated way. The idea is to provide goodie maintainers with all of the resources they need in order to ensure that the most recent versions of their packages are included in new builds of the VisualWorks product.
If you have a goodie that you would like to submit (and maintain) using this process, you should send an email to vw-dev-owner@parcplace.net describing your package. Please make sure to include in this message the official name of the package, as this will be used to create your upload area. The vw-dev-owner will then:
Create the directory ftp://ftp.cincomsmalltalk.com/pub/goodies/MyPackageName
Notify you that you must be subscribed to the vw-dev-ann@parcplace.net mailing list (to receive weekly build announcements, notifications of "code freeze" dates, etc.)
Notify you with your account information for logging in to the ftp server to perform uploads
The rest of the instructions are on the page I linked to above. It's pretty simple, and it allows us to automate the process
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