----- "Dale" <
[hidden email]> wrote:
| Teleplacer wrote:
| >
| > On 5/6/2010 9:55 AM, Dale wrote:
| > <snip>
| >> #includes is used quite extensively for Seaside30 where an
| expression
| >> like
| >> the following is used:
| >>
| >> spec for: #common do: [
| >> spec
| >> package: 'Javascript-Core'
| >> with: [ spec requires: #('Seaside-Core' 'Seaside-Canvas' ). ];
| >> package: 'JQuery-Core'
| >> with: [ spec requires: #('Javascript-Core' ). ]].
| >> spec for: #squeakCommon do: [
| >> spec
| >> package: 'Javascript-Core'
| >> with: [ spec includes: #('Javascript-Pharo-Core' ) ]].
| >>
| >
| > <snip>
| >
| >> Whereas if we only had the #requires: mechanism, we'd need to
| duplicate
| >> every 'Javascript-Core' #requires: with a #requires: for
| >> 'Javascript-Pharo-Core'
| >
| > How so? It seems to me, that the following should be equivalent,
| no?
| >
| > spec for: #squeakCommon do:[
| > "Javascript-Core-Top is a pseudo target"
| > spec package: 'Javascript-Core-Top'
| > with: [spec requires: #(JavaScript-Pharo-Core)]
| > "And be explicit about load order"
| > spec package: 'Javascript-Pharo-Core'
| > with: [spec requires: #(JavaScript-Core)]
| > ].
| >
| > spec for: #common do:[
| > "Pseudo-top always depends on actual Javascript-Core"
| > spec package: 'Javascript-Core-Top
| > with: [spec requires: #(JavaScript-Core)]
| >
| > "standard Javascript-Core dependencies"
| > spec
| > package: 'Javascript-Core'
| > with: [ spec requires: #('Seaside-Core' 'Seaside-Canvas' ). ].
| >
| > "Now make JQuery-Core depending on the pseudo package"
| > spec package: 'JQuery-Core'
| > with:[spec requires: #('Javascript-Core-Top')].
| > ].
| >
| > Is there any difference?
| >
| >
|
| Andreas,
|
| The difference is that you introduced the package
| 'Javascript-Core-Top' and
| that package doesn't exist:) So the #includes: directive means that
| you
| don't have to introduce "artificial" targets that perform no other
| function
| than act as a dependency target.
|
| Keep in mind that over time a project may evolve to the point where
| you need
| to add a "new dependency target" and if you have to add a new target,
| other
| projects that depend upon this project and may reference the "old
| dependency
| target" and will not function correctly moving forward.
|
| The #includes: directive allows you to "add packages to the original
| dependency target" without changing the structure of your project...
|
| Dale
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