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Hi,
with 7.4 the
Runtime Packager runs into an error with Aragon Widgets when it tries
to remove unreferenced Globals. This did not happen in
7.3.1.
This is what
happens:
Aragon.Widgets adds
Shared Variables for its widget spec classes to the namespace Smalltalk (which
rational I do not really understand...). In my case the TreeViewSpec is not
used and the packager adds the shared variable to the unreferenced globals
to be removed.
When stripping, it
first deletes unused classes. Among it the class AragonSpecsInstaller which in
turn removes the shadowing shared variables for the widget specs from namespace
Smalltalk in its #obsolete method.
Then, the packager
wants to remove the unreferenced globals and gives an error on
Smalltalk.TreeViewSpec, since it is already removed.
Possible
solutions:
personally I would
like to get rid of the load/unload behavior of Aragon.Widgets of shadowing
the widget specs. Unfortunately, I dont understand why it was put in there in
the first place, so this might break things... Also this would require users of
the package to change their code to correctly reference
Aragon.<widget>Spec instead of UI.<widget>Spec or just
<widget>Spec.
The other solution
would be to make the packager more robust against the removal of globals outside
the scope of the packager. The method SystemUtils class>>removeName:from:
throws an exception (unfortunately just a general Error) when a namespace does
not include the name to be removed. This is the error stopping the packager.
This could be gracefully handled in RuntimeManagerStripper
class>>discardUnreferencedMethodsClassesAndGlobals:.
cheers,
Christian
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