[squeak-dev] Monticello Package Dependencies [Was: Re: ClockAndCalendarMorphs project on SqueakSource]

Eliot Miranda eliot.miranda at gmail.com
Fri Feb 2 18:38:28 UTC 2018


On Thu, Feb 1, 2018 at 10:35 AM, tim Rowledge <tim at rowledge.org> wrote:

>
>
> > On 01-02-2018, at 9:58 AM, Eliot Miranda <eliot.miranda at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> >
> >
> >
> > On Thu, Feb 1, 2018 at 7:48 AM, Jakob Reschke <forums.jakob at resfarm.de>
> wrote:
> > I have been told that nobody uses the Monticello feature of
> > dependencies among packages...
> >
> > At least for me that's because I didn't know they supported this :-(.  I
> think I shall try using it :-)
>
> I do (or at least, did, might have stopped at some point, get off my lawn)
> use it for the WeatherStation package and NuScratchGPIO. The ui is a bit …
> sparse. Functionally it seems to work quite nicely; it loads the required
> packages before the main package. What else would it do? A bit more UI to
> manage required packages would be nice; currently you can add one, or
> remove them all. A bit sledge-hammer for my tastes.
>

We at least need to reveal it through the Monticello browser.  I see no
Dependences button or edit dependencies menu item anywhere.  So for me the
feature was completely invisible.  I've been maintaining unnecessary load
scripts for the VMMaker package when I could simply rely on dependencies.
This isn't good guys :-(


> tim
> --
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> Never trust a computer you can't lift.
>

_,,,^..^,,,_
best, Eliot
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