[Cuis-dev] Ordering of method categories gets lost sometimes

[Juan Vuletich]

Just pushed the changes to GitHub.

For Haver, you could reload them, but again, you'd lose the ordering of 
categories. I think the 2 package solution is better, but it's your call.

Cheers,

On 5/2/2022 10:44 AM, Gerald Klix via Cuis-dev wrote:
> I am beginning to remember why I did this.
>
> I once developed a rather large package that implements multiple-dispatch.
> For that purpose I implemented a custom compiler and  two Parser classes,
> including the shout part. Not to mention the decompiler.
>
> I was not able to compile any test code, because #compilerClass needs 
> to be defined,
> to compiler the remaining code. Of course this can be solved by 
> defining an abstract super class
> in a distinct package, that just defines #compilerClass, but I deem 
> that solution ugly.
>
> A sensible solution would be to file out the category definitions 
> before the code.
>
> I would like to keep it for Haver, but this isn't a big deal.
> I had to sub-class CodePackage anyway, to make it deal with 
> emvironments/modules.
> So drop me a note if you want to change it, I can cope.
>
>
> HTH,
>
> Gerald
> On May 2 2022, at 3:29 pm, Juan Vuletich via Cuis-dev 
> <cuis-dev at lists.cuis.st> wrote:
>
>       I think that #selectorNeededForFilein: and doing that
>     distinction for package files introduces non-obvious, confusing
>     behavior. I wasn't aware of this.
>
>     I think it is best to remove all this, make it as it was before
>     this batch of changes from January, 2019. And if any package has
>     trouble being loaded, the it should be split in two, using package
>     dependency to load the first part.
>
>     Do you agree, folks? I can do the required changes.
>
>     Thanks,
>
>     On 4/29/2022 7:40 AM, Luciano Notarfrancesco via Cuis-dev wrote:
>
>
>         Found the problem: Metaclass class>>#isScarySelector:.
>
>         Juan, what do you think we should do? One way is to reorder
>         all method categories at the end of the package file, but that
>         will make package files grow quite a bit.
>
>
>         On Thu, 28 Apr 2022 at 6:58 PM Gerald Klix <cuis.01 at klix.ch
>         <mailto:cuis.01 at klix.ch>> wrote:
>
>             Yep, I gave up ordering them manually. And I just noticed,
>             that I was the last one, who touched the responsible
>             pieces of code ...
>
>
>             HTH,
>
>             Gerald
>             On Apr 28 2022, at 1:39 pm, Luciano Notarfrancesco via
>             Cuis-dev <cuis-dev at lists.cuis.st
>             <mailto:cuis-dev at lists.cuis.st>> wrote:
>
>                 Has anyone noticed that the ordering of method
>                 categories is lost when saving a package? Lately I
>                 noticed that ‘printing’ ends up at the top, not sure
>                 why but there seems to be something special about
>                 ‘printing’. I haven’t researched the problem yet, just
>                 wondering if this is happening only with my package or
>                 if it happens to other people. --
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