[Cuis-dev] Cuis package management

[Gerald Klix]

Nope, if you use an instance of FileEntry as a package name,
the package is loaded exactly from the file denoted by that instance.

Take this snipped as an example:

     Feature
         require: (klgPackagesDirectory // 'Accessability.pck.st') pathName;
         require: (klgPackagesDirectory // 'KeyboardFocus.pck.st') pathName;

where the "free" variables are defined like this:

     klgPackagesDirectory := aRootDirectory / 'klg-packages'.

and aRootDirectrory along this lines.

     aRootDirectory := HaverizePackage packageDirectoryName 
asDirectoryEntry parent

The actual code can be found here:
https://hg.sr.ht/~cy-de-fect/HaverOnCuis/browse/haver/Haverize.pck.st?rev=tip#L222


HTH,

Gerald



On 6/3/24 3:04 AM, Mark Volkmann via Cuis-dev wrote:
> It looks like I can load a package file from another directory if I do it
> from a "File List" window, but not with the "Feature require:" method. Is
> that correct?
>
> On Sun, Jun 2, 2024 at 7:35 PM Mark Volkmann <r.mark.volkmann at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> I'm learning about Cuis package management from this video:
>> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jXuoFEkg6UA
>>
>> The directory that contains the CuisVM.app file and the CuisImage
>> directory is Cuis-Smalltalk-Dev-master and there is a sibling directory
>> named Cuis-Smalltalk-Dev-master-UserFiles.
>> I created and saved a new package named "Volkmann".
>> I see that it was created in the
>> Cuis-Smalltalk-Dev-master-UserFiles/NewPackages directory in a file named
>> Volkmann.pck.st.
>> Is it required for packages I create to be located in that directory?
>> It seems that running "Feature require: 'Volkmann'" in a Workspace expects
>> the package files to be in that directory.
>>
>> --
>> R. Mark Volkmann
>> Object Computing, Inc.
>>
>
>