[Q] Package dependencies

Ned Konz ned at squeakland.org
Wed Nov 3 19:29:23 UTC 2004


On Wednesday 03 November 2004 10:41 am, Chris Muller wrote:
> I expect this is also why, after copying all my latest .mcz files into a
> SAR that I sometimes still get "not found" errors when trying to load on
> another computer; the referenced dependency is an old one and I only have
> the newest ones in the SAR.
>
> This is painful, so I'm thinking of just ditching dependencies and loading
> packages and building SAR's manually..  unless there are other alternatives
> I'm not considering..
>
> Doesn't everyone have these challenges?  What is a best-practice?

What I do is to make a PackageInfo subclass that does the SAR building. It 
typically contains a list of required Monticello packages, and builds a SAR 
out of the latest versions (saving each MC package first if it's been 
modified).

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