[squeak-dev] About unloading of packages in the most recent
Squeak 4.1 trunk
Bert Freudenberg
bert at freudenbergs.de
Mon Aug 23 22:43:56 UTC 2010
On 24.08.2010, at 00:34, Levente Uzonyi wrote:
> On Tue, 24 Aug 2010, Bert Freudenberg wrote:
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>> 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.
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> That's right, but it's still random from the package dependency POV.
What makes you think so? The order is chosen (manually) so that dependent packages are loaded before depending packages.
- Bert -
>> Since updating should not bring in the unloaded packages we would need to inform the updater to skip them.
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> Right.
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> Levente
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>> - Bert -
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