Loading Packages Using Monticello Browser? OSProcess

> In Squeak 4.4-12327, I have a Monticello Browser window open from which I have opened
> as Repositiory: http://www.squeaksource.com/OSProcess window.
> In the left hand panel there is a list of items in alpha order. I select OSProcess.
> In the right hand panel there is a list of items in name/number order.
> When I click on an item in the right hand panel, a message pops telling
> me the it has been loaded, but I don't see any OSProcess when I open a Browser
> and find class OSProcess.
> When I mouse over the Load button in the Repository: header the baloon says
> to load this version into the image. I click on the button and I get a
> message that it has been loaded.

> ----- Original Message -----
> From: David T. Lewis
> Sent: 01/12/14 07:21 PM
> To: The general-purpose Squeak developers list
> Subject: Re: [squeak-dev] Loading Packages Using Monticello Browser? OSProcess
>
> On Sun, Jan 12, 2014 at 08:42:45PM -0500, JohnReed Maffeo wrote:
> > In Squeak 4.4-12327, I have a Monticello Browser window open from which I have opened
> > as Repositiory: http://www.squeaksource.com/OSProcess window.
> > In the left hand panel there is a list of items in alpha order. I select OSProcess.
> > In the right hand panel there is a list of items in name/number order.
> > When I click on an item in the right hand panel, a message pops telling
> > me the it has been loaded, but I don't see any OSProcess when I open a Browser
> > and find class OSProcess.
> > When I mouse over the Load button in the Repository: header the baloon says
> > to load this version into the image. I click on the button and I get a
> > message that it has been loaded.
>
> Hi JohnReed,
>
> If you used a Monticello Browser, then highlighted OSProcess, and then clicked
> "Load" on the top entry on the right (currently OSProcess-dtl.89), then yes you
> are done. You have loaded the complete OSProcess package.
>
> There are some sub-packages listed on the left side, such as OSProcess-Base
> and OSProcess-Unix and so forth. You can ignore these, because when you loaded
> OSProcess you also will have loaded all of the sub-packages.
>
> If you are comfortable using the SqueakMap package browser, you can also load
> OSProcess that way. The "head" version from SqueakMap will load exactly the same
> thing that you loaded from OSProcess-dtl.89.
>
> So - yes you did the right thing, and yes you have loaded the complete OSProcess
> package.
>
> >
> > Now when I open a SystemBrowser, I see all of the OSProcess-foo categories listed.
> > Am I done? Or do I have do more? There is a ConfigurationOfOSProcess.
>
> You can ignore the ConfigurationOfOSProcess section. This is required for
> people who use Pharo images due to various incompatibilities, but that is not
> an issue for any version of Squeak.
>
> >
> > I went through this once about three weeks ago and just clicked on everything,
> > now I am having to rebuild an image because of a problem I am having trying
> > to get osp := ExternalUnixOSProcess new command: cmdLine to work. And I managed to
> > break ExternalUnixOSProcess when I tried to load CommandShell thinking that it
> > might be helpful to my effort to figure out my problem.
>
> Loading CommandShell is a good idea also.
>
> >
> > The string in cmdLine contains a string, which when printed out to Transcript
> > and copied over to a terminal session outside Squeak works like a charm. Once I
> > am sure that I have OSProcess loaded correctly, I will probably come back for
> > some advice about how to effectively debug comand line problems.
>
> Please do ask, I'll be happy to help if I can.
>
> Dave

>
> On 13.01.2014, at 23:55, Chris Muller <[hidden email]> wrote:
>
> >> If you are comfortable using the SqueakMap package browser, you can also load
> >> OSProcess that way. The "head" version from SqueakMap will load exactly the same
> >> thing that you loaded from OSProcess-dtl.89.
> >
> > Yes, and yet another way is to simply execute the following:
> >
> >  Installer new merge: #osProcess
> >
> > See the "package-definitions" category of Installer for all the
> > packages you can load this way.
> >
>
> How many ways does that make to install OSProcess??
>

> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Chris Muller
> Sent: 01/13/14 03:55 PM
> To: The general-purpose Squeak developers list
> Subject: Re: [squeak-dev] Loading Packages Using Monticello Browser? OSProcess
>
> > If you are comfortable using the SqueakMap package browser, you can also load
> > OSProcess that way. The "head" version from SqueakMap will load exactly the same
> > thing that you loaded from OSProcess-dtl.89.
>
> Yes, and yet another way is to simply execute the following:
>
>  Installer new merge: #osProcess
>
> See the "package-definitions" category of Installer for all the
> packages you can load this way.

>> See the "package-definitions" category of Installer for all the
>> packages you can load this way.
>
> Based on the earlier threads, there are at least three ways to load packages from a variety of sources.
>
> Monticello Browser
> SqueakMap PackageBrowser
> Installer (From Workspace)
>
> Are there specific use cases for each of these options?