Hi, as you know I’m working on QualityAssistant, and at the moment the current structure of false positives in Manifest in not good enough for me. So I plant to reimplement it. Should I follow some guidelines? Because you are introducing this new package manifest, and I think that it could make sense if I’ll give you a feedback whether I works well for my needs.
Uko > On 06 May 2015, at 13:56, Christophe Demarey <christophe.dema...@inria.fr> > wrote: > > > Le 6 mai 2015 à 13:21, Kasper Osterbye a écrit : > >> demarey wrote >>> If you want to allow package comments in Nautilus, I would display the >>> content of the description method of the package manifest if available. >> >> It would be great to leverage on something already taking place. >> Are you talking about class PackageManifest? >> I can see that RPackage has a method which will give me a PackageManifest >> (or create a new one). I have not been able to spot "the description method >> of the package manifest" (as mentioned by Marcus). Mostly those Manifest >> classes seems to be used for other purposes than documentation. > > Manifest classes were introduced to manage code critics false positives. > >> I'll try out a few things to see how it can work, my reading of the >> "TheManifestBuilder>>createManifestNamed:" shows that manifests would be >> very suited for this documentation purpose, as it actually create a >> ManifestClass in the package. I believe this class is stored in Monticello >> like any other class. > > right > >> For the time being I found no instances of PackageManifest, so it is a bit >> unclear to me how these Manifest classes store any data? > > > Indeed. > There are PackageManifest classes only for projects managing code critics > false positives. > I created the PackageManifest class to start the decoupling between the > manifest and critics, but there is not yet a lot of other tools / project > using it (but it will come). > > Data is stored in raw strings in methods (instance side) of the Manifest. > ex: > ManifestKernel>>#description > ^ 'I am the description of the Pharo Kernel package.'
