Re: [Help-smalltalk] Small proposal for packages

[Gwenaël Casaccio]

Thanks

On Mon, Dec 20, 2010 at 11:25 AM, Paolo Bonzini <address@hidden> wrote:
> On 12/20/2010 11:07 AM, Gwenaël Casaccio wrote:
>>
>> Hi,
>>
>> I just want to present some small extensions for packages:
>>
>> 1. Add extra meta information
>> ======================
>>
>> A short description of the package, url of the project, and an icon
>> these points would be useful for an ui in VisualGST.
>
> Not sure about icons, but package, url and license/copyright would be very
> useful.
>
>> I would like to make the difference between
>> prereq packages and sub packages for instance Iliad would have
>> iliad-more-....
>> has a subpackage and swazoo has prereq.
>
> Agreed.
>
>> 2. Virtual packages
>> ===============
>>
>> A virtual package would only contains prereq packages and
>> sub packages. for instance It will be usefull for ui if you search
>> iliad it will display iliad with priority and the other sub packages
>> after.
>
> That should be easy, just look for "*.xml" (* not being "packages") inside
> the package directory and parse those without the need for a .star wrapper.
>
>> 3. add a reload message ;-)
>> ==================
>
> Easy enough.  Not guaranteed to work without atomic loading, though.
>
>> 4. Load order
>> ==========
>>
>> Something that's annoying with big packages is that we should
>> put the files ordered with the inheritance order. A solution
>> is too to a pass on the package and generate the right file loading
>> order. But things remain complicated when you inherit from external
>> packages and the other. All the suggestions/ideas are welcome ;)
>
> That should be easily taken care of by PackageSource, since it basically
> disregards the existing source structure.
>
> Paolo
>