what does gst-load load?

> I was a bit surprised by the output of gst-load -v OnlineTester
> when I tried loading my current package:
>
> Loading package Sockets
> Loading package Sport
> Loading package Iconv
> Loading package Magritte
> Loading package Iliad-Core
> Loading package Iliad-More-Widgets
> Loading package Iliad-More-Magritte
> Loading package Swazoo
> Loading package Iliad-More-Examples
> Loading package Iliad-More
> Loading package Iliad-Swazoo
> Loading package Iliad
> Loading package OnlineTester
>
> All but the last package are sitting in ~/.st, but even after
> RTFM I did not find where it says that gst-load gobbles all
> of them up. I had expected to only load the contents of the
> last, OnlineTester.star

> Stefan Schmiedl wrote:
> > I was a bit surprised by the output of gst-load -v OnlineTester
> > when I tried loading my current package:
> >
> > Loading package Sockets
> > Loading package Sport
> > Loading package Iconv
> > Loading package Magritte
> > Loading package Iliad-Core
> > Loading package Iliad-More-Widgets
> > Loading package Iliad-More-Magritte
> > Loading package Swazoo
> > Loading package Iliad-More-Examples
> > Loading package Iliad-More
> > Loading package Iliad-Swazoo
> > Loading package Iliad
> > Loading package OnlineTester
> >
> > All but the last package are sitting in ~/.st, but even after
> > RTFM I did not find where it says that gst-load gobbles all
> > of them up. I had expected to only load the contents of the
> > last, OnlineTester.star
>
> gst-load loads all dependencies of your packages (the <prereq> tags'
> contents).  I don't remember them all, but definitely Sport depends
> on Sockets, Swazoo depends on Sport, Iliad-Swazoo depends on Swazoo,
> Iliad-More-Magritte depends on Magritte, and your own package depends
> on Iliad and so on.
>

> I found the cause of my trouble ... a residue of testing my package
> loader script sat, undoubtedly grinning broadly all the time, in
> ~/.st/OnlineTester.star. So no matter what I had in the current directory,
> the "old" package was loaded first.
>
> Is the package lookup sequence "global, user, image dir" open for discussion?
>
> Is there an easy way to change it?
>
> I guess I'm the kind of guy who likes to have "." in front of PATH ...

>
> > I found the cause of my trouble ... a residue of testing my package
> > loader script sat, undoubtedly grinning broadly all the time, in
> > ~/.st/OnlineTester.star. So no matter what I had in the current
> > directory, the "old" package was loaded first.
> >
> > Is the package lookup sequence "global, user, image dir" open for
> > discussion?
> >
> > Is there an easy way to change it?
> >
> > I guess I'm the kind of guy who likes to have "." in front of
> > PATH ...
>
> Is your image local or global?  It may be that the global directory
> is the same as the image directory.