Hi Mariano,
  Thank you for the feedback, I've updated the dependency browser
package in SqueakSource, have a look for the latest package releases
or evaluate the installation script again found in
http://swikicaicyt.homeip.net/WebOpus/65

2009/12/26 Mariano Martinez Peck <[email protected]>:
>
>
> On Sat, Dec 26, 2009 at 10:06 PM, Hernán Morales Durand
> <[email protected]> wrote:
>>
>> Hi Mariano!
>>  Nice to see you liked the Dependency Browser, let's clarify some
>> points about it then,
>>
>> 2009/12/26 Mariano Martinez Peck <[email protected]>:
>> > Hi Hernán: First let me say that this tool is really great and useful.
>> > It is
>> > helping me a lot to build the metacello configurations. Now, I have a
>> > couple
>> > of questions:
>> >
>> > 1) What do the colors mean ? (red, orange, etc). I read here
>> >
>> > http://cs.hernanmorales.com.ar/projects/dependencyBrowser/DBrowser-en.php
>> > but found nothing :(
>>
>> Colors were originally for idenfitying dependency types of external
>> packages, but the package infos names aren't normalized, E.g.
>> Normalized name = "Collections", Un-normalized name =
>> "Collections-Strings", hence you will see a lot of false external
>> packages colorized.
>>
>> Orange -> Dependecy of class reference of "external" package, or class
>> reference in un-normalized package name.
>> Brown -> Dependency of external package loose method, or loose method
>> in un-normalized package name.
>> Red -> Dependency of inheritance, or inheritance in un-normalized package
>> name.
>> Blue -> Dependency of a unsolved binding (like a class not present in
>> the image).
>
> Thanks for the explanation. Now, as a good programmer you can reuse this
> explanation and put it in the website :)
>

Ok, done. The official package home page is under
http://www.caicyt.gov.ar/letodoc/paquetes-publicados

>
> Hey! I have more questions :)
>
> 3) Please, take a Pharo dev image and you will see that the package OCForOB
> for example, only depends on OmniBrowser and OB-Standard (using dependency
> browser). However, that package also depends on OCompletion I think. Look
> for example the method
>
> OBTextPanel >> createCompletionController  (category ocforob)
>
> and you will see that it uses the class OController  which is from the
> package OCompletion....So, shouldn't be OCompletion a dependency ?
>

True, it is fixed now in the latest release.

> 4) There are certain packages that are not listed in the dependency browser.
> Examples OB-Standard, OB-Morphic, O2-Standard , etc...most of them (maybe
> all) seem to have the pattern XXX-YYY. Do you know what can be the problem
> here? Maybe something related to what you told me about normalized and
> un-normalized?  I would really like to see these packages also.

No, this was a missing line in the package listing. Fixed too.

> 5) Why there are some packages that have their self as dependency ? For
> example, take OmniBrowser and you will see that has a dependency OmniBrowser
> also (as Inheritance and Reference).
>

May be useful to see internal dependencies?

Cheers,

Hernán

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