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Andreas Raab wrote:
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<pre wrap="">On 5/18/2010 11:35 PM, Göran Krampe wrote:
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<pre wrap="">On 05/19/2010 07:44 AM, Andreas Raab wrote:
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<pre wrap="">Feedback welcome! Patches even more :-)
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<pre wrap="">I haven't even looked yet - BUT... I got reminded by a nice "feature" in
Lunar Linux's package management tools when you were discussing "default
groups" etc. Perhaps I misunderstood - but I guess its about "questions
to the user when installing stuff".
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It's a little off. What I was referring to is that in Metacello you can
define 'groups' of packages. I think the intent is that such groups are
like installation options, e.g., something like
Installing Foo:
[x] Foo-Core (required group)
[ ] Foo-Tests (optional group - unit tests)
[ ] Foo-Help (optional group - documentation)
The current Metacello definition is such that if it exists, the
'default' group is being installed. But that can only be a single group
so in the case that I wanted to structure the above into three separate
groups but by default have both Core and Tests selected I would have to
create a separate default group for that. And that creates confusion
because you can't really present that in a UI properly.</pre>
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Andreas,<br>
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Not sure if this helps or not...<br>
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First off one can load more than one target. The #load: method can take
a string or a collection of strings, so if the groups 'default',
'Tests' and 'Optional' exist one can specify #('default' 'Tests'
'Optional') as the argument to the load ... <br>
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Secondly, metacello takes care of overlap and duplication internally
while resolving the list to a set of packages/projects, so you don't
have to create groups for all of the possible combinations of groups.
In the above you can just add the selected group to the load list...<br>
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Dale<br>
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