[squeak-dev] About unloading of packages in the most recent Squeak 4.1 trunk

Levente Uzonyi leves at elte.hu
Mon Aug 23 22:34:59 UTC 2010


On Tue, 24 Aug 2010, Bert Freudenberg wrote:

> On 24.08.2010, at 00:03, Levente Uzonyi wrote:
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>> The problem with updating after unloading is that the updater mechanism has no information of package dependencies, so it will try to load packages randomly which obviously won't work.
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> It does not load packages randomly, but in the order defined in the update config map.

That's right, but it's still random from the package dependency POV.

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> Since updating should not bring in the unloaded packages we would need to inform the updater to skip them.

Right.


Levente

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