xmlsupport conflict in pharo 1.2

---- On Thu, 06 Jan 2011 08:33:36 -0800 Stéphane Ducasse  wrote ----

>Hi
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>may be you should let us pharo dev guys know what is the best?
>May be loading a more recent version is more adequate.
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>Stef

Perhaps you could postpone the integration until Pharo 1.3? Honestly, I am not really sure if it should be in the core at all,

as it adds another megabyte to the image and nothing in the image depends on it. The real reason why you're considering including it is that people keep going onto the Pharo lists asking if a Pharo XML parser exists and where it can be found, because they don't already know of XMLSupport's existence. Rather than stuffing every popular package into the core image, the long term solution should be to find a way to enable people to search for Pharo packages. Maybe the Squeak Source rewrite being planned will be more Google friendly, and you'll be able to put a search box on the pharo-project.org homepage with a prompt to "Search for Pharo projects" and people will be able to find whatever they need :)

As for the differences between older and newer packages, there are many, some of which aren't backwards compatible. For example, the writer API was redone to be block-based like Seaside's HTML generation API. The #contentString methods return the combined string content of all descendant elements rather than only of the first child string node. You can check the changelog at squeaksource.com/XMLSupport for more information. I have unfortunately been busy lately and unable to work on Pharo-related projects.

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>> Date : Thu, 06 Jan 2011 07:27:20 -0800
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>> ---- On Wed, 05 Jan 2011 09:39:31 -0800 Alexandre Bergel wrote ----
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>>> I had a quick look at it.
>>> In Pharo 1.2, the XML-Parser parkage is clean (i.e.,not dirty). Loading XMLSupport turns the package dirty. The user is asked whether he is ready to lose his changes. I cannot determine why the packages turned dirty.
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>>> Executing:
>>> Gofer new
>>> squeaksource: 'XMLSupport';
>>> package: 'ConfigurationOfXMLSupport';
>>> load.
>>> (Smalltalk at: #ConfigurationOfXMLSupport) perform: #loadDefault.
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>>> in a fresh image raises the popup. Without canceling or accepting, open a Monticello browser, you will see the package dirty.
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>>> Jaaryer, can you have a look at it? There is something weird with the configuration. I sincerely hope we will have a better tool for managing configuration. I am currently working on it, but it is still too early for releasing it.
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>>> Cheers,
>>> Alexandre
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>> Is the package in Pharo 1.2 the most recent version? Reading the discussion from last month, it appeared they were opting for an older version. The only Pharo 1.2 image I can find on the website is a barren core without XMLSupport in it.
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>> Regardless, if you load any of the recent XMLSupport packages and run the test suite, it will dirty the XML-Tests-Parser package. To understand why, just browse the XMLParserElementFactoryTest class or read its comment; it generates a number of "dummy" subclasses of XMLElement for testing purposes in its #setUp message and removes those classes from the system in its #tearDown message. I have known about this for weeks but did not consider it to be a problem as other packages ("Tests", for example) always seem to have an asterisk beside them in the Monticello browser and nothing seems break as a result. I can easily change this to make those classes static (always present) rather than dynamically generated/removed, if this is a problem.
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>>> On 5 Jan 2011, at 11:41, Tudor Girba wrote:
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>>>> Hi,
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>>>> XMLSupport is present in the latest Pharo 1.2. Loading a new version generates an exception apparently, so I removed for the moment XMLSupport from the default ConfigurationOfMoose.
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>>>> I think we should only load this conditionally. Or do you have another solution?
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>>>> Cheers,
>>>> Doru
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