Hi all,


while loading a class (MyClass) with an attached pool dictionary (MyPool) today using Monticello, I encountered an error from MCPackageLoader which states:


Warning: This package depends on the following classes:

MyPool

This error message does not make sense to me since MyPool is not a class but a pool dictionary. But in MCClassDefinition >> #requirements, all #poolDictionaries are explicitly added to the list of required items. If I exclude them from this list, I get a warning "The pool dictionary MyPool does not exist. Do you want it automatically created?" later from Class >> #sharing:. Is this a bug?

I also tried to manually add the pool dictionary initialization (Smalltalk at: #MyPool put: Dictionary new) into the preamble of the package, but this preamble is also evaluated too late (i.e., not before the dependency warning is raised. Also, this feels a bit too redundant to me.

Do we need a new subclass of MCDefinition to create pool dictionaries automatically? Or could we just remove the confirmation dialog in Class >> #sharing: so that new pools will automatically be created, especially in non-interactive CI contexts?

Best,
Christoph

<http://www.hpi.de/>
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