[Cuis-dev] Packages Held Back

[ken.dickey at whidbey.com]

On 2024-06-01 12:53, Hilaire Fernandes wrote:

> Will not the Feature #require:version: discard the version from 
> Cuis6-2?

The Current RequireEmpty requires the Current Empty package:

!provides: 'RequireEmpty' 1 0!
!requires: 'Empty' 1 2 nil!


The Stable/HeldPackage requires an earlier Empty package:

!provides: 'RequireEmpty' 1 0!
!requires: 'Empty' 1 1 nil!

Doing `Feature require: 'RequireEmpty'.` in the 7.0 Workspace happens to 
find the _RequireEmpty_ package in the 
Cuis6-2/HeldPackages6-2/EmptyStuff before looking in the EmptyStuff 
directory in the Cuis-Smalltalk dir.

It then looks for Empty package 1.1 which
   !requires: 'Cuis-Base' 62 6156 68!
and so chokes.

Loading the package Cuis-Smalltalk/EmptyStuff/RequireEmpty.pck.st from 
the file list asks for Empty package 1.2, so the package 
Cuis6-2/HeldPackages6-2/EmptyStuff/Empty.pck.st _is_ indeed ignored as 
being the wrong version and the search continues to find the right one.

So, one way to deal with Stable releases is to have Cuis-Stable6-2, go 
there and clone Cuis6-2, invoke a local clonePackageRepos.sh which pulls 
the proper repo versions, and not have Cuis-Smalltalk-Dev or Cuis7-0 
within the same parent directory (Cuis-Stable6-2).  Again, have 
completely distinct file trees for each of Current, 6-2, 7-0, ..

How best to avoid confusion...
-KenD