One more thought about RPackage. I think one of the things that everybody confuse, even myself are packages vs categories. And it is not only us, but the system it self.
There is a package called Tools. So..why PACKAGEInfo let me do this: (PackageInfo named: 'Tools-Base') classes that should be an error. 'Tools-Base' is NOT a package, it is a category. I don't know how RPackage deals with it, but I just mention... cheers Mariano On Sun, May 8, 2011 at 6:23 PM, Stéphane Ducasse <[email protected]>wrote: > > On May 8, 2011, at 6:09 PM, Mariano Martinez Peck wrote: > > > Stef, off-topic question.... When I rename a package from the > SystemBrowser, the extension methods' categories are not updated. This is a > known problem. I don't know where the rename happens if it is UI or > model....but in case it is the model (PackageInfo or RPackage) I would love > to have that fixed in RPackage. > > Yes it will because this is a pain. > Probably we should solve it also in MC. May be this is fixed in Squeak. Did > you check? > I should go over the MC change made by chris but I should find time to do > it. > > Stef > > > > cheers > > > > Mariano > > > > On Sun, May 8, 2011 at 5:48 PM, Stéphane Ducasse < > [email protected]> wrote: > > Hi guys > > > > did one of you wrote a small Package checker that would check: > > - that all the methods get a non nil category > > - methods belong to a package loaded? > > > > I experienced a lot of problem with RPackage when loading broken code and > > I would like to produce a little tool to validate packages so that we can > identify > > problems and understand how to solve that in RPackage. > > > > Stef > > > > > > > > -- > > Mariano > > http://marianopeck.wordpress.com > > > > > -- Mariano http://marianopeck.wordpress.com
