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

Bert Freudenberg bert at freudenbergs.de
Sun Feb 4 17:39:15 UTC 2018


On 2 February 2018 at 23:17, tim Rowledge <tim at rowledge.org> wrote:

>
>
> > On 02-02-2018, at 11:35 AM, Bert Freudenberg <bert at freudenbergs.de>
> wrote:
> >
> > On 2 February 2018 at 19:38, Eliot Miranda <eliot.miranda at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> >
> >
> > 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 :-(
> >
> > ​It's the first menu item "add required package".
> >
> > Don't use it. There's a reason we use config maps or metacello instead
> of these.
>
> Then the facility should have been removed some time ago.
>

​Indeed.

- Bert -​
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