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

Tobias Pape Das.Linux at gmx.de
Fri Feb 2 19:41:53 UTC 2018


> On 02.02.2018, at 20:35, Bert Freudenberg <bert at freudenbergs.de> wrote:
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> On 2 February 2018 at 19:38, Eliot Miranda <eliot.miranda at gmail.com> wrote:
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> On Thu, Feb 1, 2018 at 10:35 AM, tim Rowledge <tim at rowledge.org> wrote:
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> > On 01-02-2018, at 9:58 AM, Eliot Miranda <eliot.miranda at gmail.com> wrote:
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> > 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...
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> > At least for me that's because I didn't know they supported this :-(.  I think I shall try using it :-)
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> 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.
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> 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 :-(
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> ​It's the first menu item "add required package".
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> Don't use it. There's a reason we use config maps or metacello instead of these.

+1000



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