[Seaside-dev] Metacello config for Seaside 3.0

Dale Henrichs dale.henrichs at gemstone.com
Sun Oct 11 17:33:41 UTC 2009


In the last several weeks I've been working feverishly to bring Metacello to beta and yesterday I finally made it:). 

Metacello sports a brand spanking new API that takes inspiration from Flair and constructive criticism from Doru:) In fact, the new API was driven by some of the awkwardness in the old API when configuring Seaside3.0.

To take the loader for a spin, load Seaside-Metacello-Configuration-dkh.11 from http://seaside.gemstone.com/ss/Seaside30. Once loaded, you can get started by trying the helper methods:

  SeasideConfiguration loadLatestPackages.

  SeasideConfiguration loadLatestVersion
  SeasideConfiguration loadLatestVersion: { <list of package names> }

#loadLatestPackages loads the latest version of each Seaside package.

#loadLatestVersion loads all of the packages associated with the 3.0.0-alpha5 release.

If you are interested in loading just a subset of the Seaside packages, you can use #loadLatestVersion: and pass in a list of packages like the following:

  SeasideConfiguration loadLatestVersion: 
    { 'Environment'. 'Flow'. 'Functional Tests'. 'Comanche'. }.

This is the set of packages I loaded to discover issue 484. In the above example I am using group names, but specific package names can be used as well - all of the dependents for that package are loaded.

Metacello 1.0-beta.1 has only been tested on Pharo and uses the latest version of Gofer. My next task will be to get Metacello 1.0-beta running on Squeak and when I do I will make sure that Seaside loads on Squeak as well. The challenge will be with Gofer, since I've had Metacello running on Squeak in the past:) 

After the Squeak port, I will port Gofer and Metacello to GemStone and resume the Seaside3.0 GemStone port.

I will be working on a tutorial for the new Metacello API over the next several weeks and until then you can look at MetacelloReferenceConfig which lists the full API for Metacello configurations.

Dale


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