[Cuis-dev] Feature #require: completion event or test?

[Alexandre Rousseau]

Thanks Ken. I had seen that message but (wrongly, I guess) assumed
something would already be in place to deal with such situations. The good
news is that this implies that the package loader works
asynchronously...?...

On Tue., Mar. 21, 2023, 3:02 p.m. , <ken.dickey at whidbey.com> wrote:

> On 2023-03-19 16:19, Alexandre Rousseau via Cuis-dev wrote:
>
> > My startup configuration script (thanks Hilaire) includes these lines:
> >
> >> Feature require: #'Theme-Themes'.
> >> ClassicTheme beCurrent.
> >
> > Command line launching of Squeak and image + script reports this error:
> >
> >> 2023-03-19T19:10:00.886 process:40 709851 UndefinedObject>>DoIt
> >> (ClassicTheme is Undeclared)
> >> 2023-03-19T19:10:00.886 process:40 709851 Package Theme-Themes
> >> successfully installed
> >
> > Clearly, the feature is not yet loaded when I attempt to send a message
> > to ClassicTheme.
> >
> > Feature doesn't seem to dispatch events when it is done "requiring" a
> > package, so I am wondering how you would address this.
>
> Alexandre,
>
> Not sure what your context is, but note that you can subclass
> CodePackage and define #postPackageInstall (and/or prePackageInstall) to
> do pre-install checks and post-install actions.
>
> Browse code for example usage in:
>   EnhancedText/Unicode/UniCodesTrueType.pck.st
>
> HTH,
> -KenD
>
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