Bert, thank you for the additional clues you provide go further into this.

On 9/3/10, Bert Freudenberg <bert at freudenbergs.de> wrote:
> On 03.09.2010, at 10:28, Hannes Hirzel wrote:
>
>> On of the things I have been wondering recently is where the package
>> actually "lives" in the image.
>
> A package is a (sub-) instance of PackageInfo. Packages are held by
> PackageOrganizer.
>
> One idea would be to include a PackageInfo subclass in each package, and its
> class comment or methods would describe the package. That would hook into
> HelpSystem so one could browse comments, instructions, examples etc. per
> package.

I like this idea.


> There are a few conventions for that already, e.g. the class name should end
> in "Info" and it should be in a category named "PackageName-Info".

There are some questions, see below.

>
> - Bert -
>



I found the package 'PackageInfo'.

It contains four classes
PackageInfo allInstances size 29
PackageList allInstances size   0
PackageOrganizer allInstances size   1
PackageServices allInstances size  0

Note:
I am using an image I had run through the process of
SmalltalkImage current unloadAllKnownPackages
(details see http://lists.squeakfoundation.org/pipermail/squeak-dev/2010-August/153026.html)
I get the 10MB current "minimal" Squeak 4.1 trunk image.


I get
PackagePaneBrowser new packageList size  24
and
PackagePaneBrowser new packageList
is

#('Kernel' 'Collections' 'Exceptions' 'Files' 'Balloon' 'Graphics'
'Morphic' 'Multilingual' 'Network' 'PackageInfo' 'SUnit' 'Sound'
'Compiler' 'Compression' 'System' 'Tools' 'Monticello'
'MonticelloConfigurations' 'ToolBuilder' 'MorphicExtras' 'TrueType'
'ShoutCore' 'HelpSystem' 'Help')

My questions

1) How are the 29 PackageInfo instances currently used? How have they
been created?
2) What does the PackageOrganizer instance do? Is it just used by the
PackagePaneBrowser?
3) There is no instance variable 'description' or 'comment' in the
class #PackageInfo ***
4) What should we do next? Are there objections going ahead creating
subclasses of PackageInfo and put them into the packages.
5) Which are the references to earlier discussions of this?

--Hannes



***
Object subclass: #PackageInfo
	instanceVariableNames: 'packageName methodCategoryPrefix preamble
postscript preambleOfRemoval postscriptOfRemoval'
	classVariableNames: ''
	poolDictionaries: ''
	category: 'PackageInfo-Base'