Re: [Help-smalltalk] [patch] imply file by filein in package.xml, usually

[Paolo Bonzini]

Stephen Compall wrote:
> smalltalk--backstage--2.2--patch-51
>     imply file by filein in package.xml, usually
>
> This only happens during XML parsing, so the Package protocol is
> unchanged.  You can short-circuit it with an explicit <file> or
> <built-file> or <other future allFiles-integrated tag>.  The idea is to
> simplify description and eliminate common errors for the most common
> case, in which you want a <file> for each <filein>.

I'm not sure actually of the patch, though I see what you want to achieve.

The best thing would be to add fileins automatically to either <file> or 
<built-file> using something like

   <filein dist="yes|no">

with the default being yes.  Then, you could use <file> for data files 
only.  However, this is probably too much for the pseudo-XML parser I'm 
using now (unless you want to use some regular expression magic).

Paolo