[Vm-dev] Alien: separate core, tests and win32 into own packages

Chris Cunningham cunningham.cb at gmail.com
Mon Mar 5 06:54:06 UTC 2018


On Sat, Mar 3, 2018 at 10:20 AM, Eliot Miranda <eliot.miranda at gmail.com>
wrote:

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>
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> > On Mar 2, 2018, at 2:51 AM, Torsten Bergmann <astares at gmx.de> wrote:
> >
> > Hi,
> >
> > as already discussed it would be good to have the packages in Alien more
> modular
> > (separate the tests, separate platform dependent part from core
> functionality).
> > Also this would allow to use Alien core functionality in more minimal
> Smalltalk images
> > where there is no SUnit or windows support needed or wanted.
> >
> > The issue was already discussed in January and thankfully Eliot as the
> engineer behind Alien
> > gave his OK with the request that the repo is kept and version stamps
> are preserved.
> > I now was able to devote some minutes to this task.
>
> Thanks Torsten!  I wonder if there's a useful way of marking the
> transition, such as committing a version of Alien with an author stamp such
> as PackageDecomposed...
>
> Maybe commit another Alien package with no code in it all all (all items
removed), with a pre-script that explicitly loads the other packages first?
Except the other ones are also linked under Alien.  Hmm.
-cbc
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