Issue 139 in metacello: Help System requirements have changed

Status: Accepted
Owner: [hidden email]
Labels: Type-Defect Priority-Medium Product-Core Platform-Pharo

New issue 139 by [hidden email]: Help System requirements have changed
http://code.google.com/p/metacello/issues/detail?id=139

I guess the Help System has been in cluded in pharo 1.3. Presumably the  
right answer is to fix the ConfigurationOfHelpSystem so that it works  
correctly in 1.3 (by not loading anything), but I'll have to look at the  
issue in more detail to figure this one out completely ...

See: http://code.google.com/p/pharo/issues/detail?id=4160 for details

Comment #1 on issue 139 by marianopeck: Help System requirements have  
changed
http://code.google.com/p/metacello/issues/detail?id=139

Hi Dale. So, it is not even enough to remove the includes of  
Metacello-Help  in ConfigurationOfPharo, because this is included in the  
default on ConfigurationOfMetacello. And so, it is included when doing the  
#ensureMetacello.

The problem is that in ConfigurationOFMetacello you are doing for  
#squeakCommon a "spec group: 'default' with: #('Metacello-Help'); "   but  
in Pharo we have our Help-System.  So...what I did was to remove that from  
#squeakCommon and add to #squeak this

"spec group: 'default' with: #('Metacello-Help');
                        yourself.
                        ].


Here I attach the changeset if you agree.

Attachments:
        MetacelloRemoveHelpForPharo.1.cs  5.2 KB

Comment #2 on issue 139 by [hidden email]: Help System requirements  
have changed
http://code.google.com/p/metacello/issues/detail?id=139

It looks like Pharo Issue 4160  
(http://code.google.com/p/pharo/issues/detail?id=4160) was addressed  
without requiring any Metacello configuration changes (ShortcutsHelp was  
apparently the culprit).

Just this morning I have loaded Metacello in Pharo1.3-13233 with no ill  
affects, which is the way it is supposed to work - The mcz packages that  
are preloaded into PharoCore1.3 are _later_ versions than called for in the  
ConfigurationOfHelpSystem and Metacello does not load the earlier versions,  
so there is no problem.

Gofer is also required by Metacello and the ConfigurationOfGofer has been  
triggered by a load since about version 1.1, but because the mcz files are  
later versions nothing has had to be done ...

Eventually, I should change the config for both Gofer and the help system,  
so I will leave this bug open until that is done...

Updates:
        Labels: Milestone-1.0-beta.32

Comment #3 on issue 139 by [hidden email]: Help System requirements  
have changed
http://code.google.com/p/metacello/issues/detail?id=139

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