[Cuis-dev] search path for packages

[Mariano Montone]

El 20/6/24 a las 10:40, Mark Volkmann via Cuis-dev escribió:
> I'm confused about where "Feature require: 'SomeName'" searches for 
> package files. I have a directory named smalltalk that contains many 
> cloned GitHub repos including Cuis-Smalltalk-Dev and Numerics. My 
> image file is found at Cuis-Smalltalk-Dev/CuisImage/Volkmann.image. If 
> I enter "Feature require: 'LinearAlgebra'" (defined in the Numerics 
> repo) in a Workspace and "Do it", it loads fine. But how did it know 
> where to look for it? If I move the Numerics directory to the parent 
> directory of my smalltalk directory, it does not work.

Packages are searched recursively from directory: DirectoryEntry 
projectBaseDirectory.

It is a bit more complicated than that actually, look at 
FeatureRequirement>>placesToLookForPackagesDo:

The idea is to make a base folder (the #projectBaseDirectory), named 
Cuis probably, then clone every repository in there.

For example, my Cuis folder contains: Cuis-Smalltalk-Dev, 
Cuis-Smalltalk-Tools, etc, etc.


     Mariano