On Mar 19, 2011, at 11:31 AM, Marcus Denker wrote:
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> On Mar 18, 2011, at 9:56 PM, Stéphane Ducasse wrote:
>>
>> - marcus was suggesting me to create a package with the same contents
>> as the one of loaded by MC.
>> and to have tags to only represent categories.
>>
>> Now my time is short so I will
>> - probably not implement tags
>
> Even then, I would vote for mapping one PackageInfo --> one Rpackage.
But this is far from simple because you have then to deal with categories
matching.
I'm trying to see if I can do the following:
At load time when I load Foo (ie the package Foo)
I map
Foo-zork and
Foo-cat to Foo (if this is like that in the MC
file)
Now what is happening if the user
create a new category
Foo-tt
Foo-tt will not be mapped to Foo. So what will happen?
So I will try to understand how this is working right now and sync with cyrille.
> Categories are not packages, if
> we make every category a package we will end up in a big mess (as groups of
> these would have lots and lots
> of dependencies). Already the PackageInfo Packages for Network and Collection
> (the split into just the class
> categories - as- packages) was a mistake, purely driven by speed of MC.
I do not think so. Collections should be repackaged. We should repackage the
classes.
> - check again the implementation of RPackage and in particular the
> necessary compatibility layer, because I saw some strange
>> code.
>> - check the MC dependency on method category conventions, because some
>> logic is not defined in the right place
>> like overrides in the MC tools and not in the PackageInfo
>> - check how a package gets created when loaded: the key question is
>> that there is a problem to rely on categories to
>> associate classes to packages because we can end up with overlapping
>> (normally the IDE captures the category renames
>> and change the packages accordingly).
>> - we should not rely on most-specific-category kind of pattern matching.
>>
>> So if you have suggestion please talk now.
>>
>>
>> Stef
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> INRIA Lille -- Nord Europe. Team RMoD.
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