[etoys-dev] Packaging Etoys

[Bert Freudenberg]

It's a non-issue for us. We just need to re-categorize everything before creating the first "real" Monticello packages. That was the original plan anyway, not sure what the issue at hand is?

- Bert -

On 01.03.2010, at 17:52, karl ramberg wrote:
> 
> 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
>> 
>> 
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