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Noury Bouraqadi-2

How to load a single package in a Metacello baseline

Hi,

I'm updating the the baseline of PharoJS to use the zinc websockets from the github repo https://github.com/svenvc/zinc. I want to load package Zinc-WebSocket-Core. So, in BaselineOfPharoJS>>#baseline: I've defined

spec baseline: 'ZincHTTPComponents' with: [
                spec
                    loads: #('Zinc-WebSocket-Core');
                    repository: '<a href="github://svenvc/zinc" class="">github://svenvc/zinc' ].

However, for some reason I get Zinc-WebSocket-Tests loaded. Any hint how to avoid it?(edited)

Looking at BaselineOfZincHTTPComponents>>#baseline:, package WebSocket-Core does not seem to depend on tests

spec package: 'Zinc-WebSocket-Core' with: [ spec requires: 'Zinc-HTTP' ]

Thanks,

Noury

Tim Mackinnon

Re: How to load a single package in a Metacello baseline

Yeah - I have a similar issue with ExternalWebBrowser, which I load as:

spec

baseline: 'ExternalWebBrowser'

with: [ spec

repository: '<a href="github://seandenigris/Pharo-Web-Browser:master/repository" class="">github://seandenigris/Pharo-Web-Browser:master/repository' ];

import: 'ExternalWebBrowser'.

That drags in BabyMock and huge raft of tests (which I’m grateful were written), but I’d prefer not to muddy the waters when presenting Exercism.

I think what we have to do is submit pull requests to these projects such that they create better baselines with Groups. Eg. The Exercism baseline does this so that students load core, but developers get extra tools to generate exercises - eg.

spec

package: 'Exercism'

with: [ ];

package: 'ExercismDev'

with: [ spec requires: #('Exercism' 'ExercismTools')];

package: 'ExercismTools'

with: [ spec requires: #('OSProcess' 'ExternalWebBrowser') ];

group: 'default'

with:

#('ExercismTools');

group: 'dev'

with:

#('ExercismDev’)]

Then you can specify in your load request which group to use (I don’t have the syntax handy for baselines, but when you load via iceberg, the Metacelle menu has a second option where you specify the group to use, so I’m sure it can be done in code too).

I’d be interested if there is some way to do it without groups though, so that you don’t have to rely on the package authors to do this (similar in thought to what Sabine is complaining about by not being able to better control version dependencies).

This whole area is becoming more and more important as we grow up and what to have more controllable load characteristics.

Tim

On 19 Feb 2019, at 11:13, N. Bouraqadi <[hidden email]> wrote:
Hi,
I'm updating the the baseline of PharoJS to use the zinc websockets from the github repo https://github.com/svenvc/zinc. I want to load package Zinc-WebSocket-Core. So, in BaselineOfPharoJS>>#baseline: I've defined
spec baseline: 'ZincHTTPComponents' with: [
                spec
                    loads: #('Zinc-WebSocket-Core');
                    repository: '<a href="github://svenvc/zinc" class="">github://svenvc/zinc' ].
However, for some reason I get Zinc-WebSocket-Tests loaded. Any hint how to avoid it?(edited)
Looking at BaselineOfZincHTTPComponents>>#baseline:, package WebSocket-Core does not seem to depend on tests
spec package: 'Zinc-WebSocket-Core' with: [ spec requires: 'Zinc-HTTP' ]
Thanks,
Noury

Sean P. DeNigris

Re: How to load a single package in a Metacello baseline

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Tim Mackinnon wrote
> Yeah - I have a similar issue with ExternalWebBrowser... that drags in...
> [a] huge raft of tests

My workflow is to make every project one monolithic package until the need
to do otherwise is presented (like right now!). I used to carefully think
about theoretical use case scenarios and split projects up along those
lines, but management (especially with the tooling available at that time)
seemed to explode exponentially, so I went monolithic. After several years
of experience, this is the first time someone expressed a pain point (that I
remember anyway)! This seems to validate the current approach and my
suspicion that preemptively creating multiple packages is akin to premature
optimization.

Tim Mackinnon wrote
> I think what we have to do is submit pull requests to these projects such
> that they create better baselines with Groups

Yes! I will happily integrate. The tests may need to be promoted to a
package if they are currently in a tag, but 'Core' without and 'Tests' with
seems appropriate given your issue. I don't have a strong opinion on the
default but my guess is to leave it as is (i.e. all packages) because
newbies will get the tests (i.e. documentation) and advanced users will know
enough to customize.

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Cheers,
Sean
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Cheers,
Sean