[etoys-dev] Packaging Etoys

[karl ramberg]

Thank you for the answers.
Makes sends once I think about it. So we get bitten by early binding
of method categories...
This would be nice to choose on fileIn, so you just specify which
category / package a method should be in instead of
just applying the one in the change set...

It would be nice to be able to use both change sets and Monticello for
a while until development gets traction and since most development in
Etoys have deep roots in change sets.

Karl


On Mon, Mar 1, 2010 at 2:24 PM, David T. Lewis <lewis at mail.msen.com> wrote:
> On Mon, Mar 01, 2010 at 11:06:45AM +0100, karl ramberg wrote:
>> Hi.
>> Good work :-)
>>
>> Underscores should be fixed even though I prefer the arrow :-)
>>
>> How do I fix the second issue with package categories? I'm not really
>> used to Monticello so I fumble here.
>
> Hi Karl,
>
> This is something that Monticello does not handle well, and I am
> not sure if you will want to "fix" it or not. It is probably best
> to think about it for a couple of days, and also ask Bert what he
> thinks. Changing categories in the Etoys image will make it easier
> to compare Etoys with Squeak trunk, but it may cause other problems
> if patches are being tracked and applied through change sets.
>
> It is difficult (but not impossible) to make changes to the Squeak
> trunk package names, because it affects lots of people using the
> update stream, and because it makes the change history hard to
> track (due to Monticello). So realistically it means you need to
> decide if you want to change the categories in the Etoys image.
>
> Actually changing the categories is simple. If you change the
> category of a class (in a browser, in the usual way), Monticello
> will automatically treat it as belonging to a different category.
> Likewise, for method categories, changing the category from e.g.
> "foo" to "*Etoys-foo" moves it into the Etoys package. If you
> change the category of a class from "Foo" to "Bar", then you will
> need to save both the "Foo" and "Bar" packages in Monticello.
> The class will disappear from the Foo package, and appear as
> new in the Bar package.
>
> One note concerning the Etoys package naming - Monticello does
> not seem to care about upper/lower case names, so from my
> Monticello browser in a Squeak trunk image, the "Etoys" package
> in source.squeak.org/etoys appears in package "EToys" in my
> browser. The archive files in source.squeak.org/trunk have names
> like "EToys-dtl.62", and the archive files in source.squeak.org/etoys
> have names like "Etoys-kfr.3" (lower-case $t). As far as I can
> tell, this is harmless but maybe a bit confusing.
>
>
>
> Dave
>
>