Actually - I’ve realised that Calypso can give me the tag name from its context 
- (aToolContext lastSelectedClassGroup).

However it does highlight a very strange package/tag design. Are you not 
supposed to be easily able to derive RPacakgeTags?

Tim

> On 14 Feb 2019, at 13:19, Tim Mackinnon <tim@testit.works> wrote:
> 
> I’m trying to understand how RPackage and RPackageTag work in Pharo7? It 
> seems different than Pharo6 at least with Nautilus (vs Calypso) - as 
> previously the Nautilus UI gave me the RPacakgeTag, and I could just work 
> with that. Calypso doesn’t seem to give me the tag object, but if I have a 
> known class and I want to know its RPackageTag I can’t see how you do it? It 
> all seems rather messy….
> 
> I can ask a class for its category - which just gives me a symbol of the form 
> “mypackage-tagname”, and if I ask a class for its package, it will give me an 
> RPackage(myPackage) - but that RPackage has a set of RPackageTags which just 
> use the tagname (so not prefixed with "mypackage-“)? So am I really supposed 
> to split the category name on “-“ myself, and then select the correct 
> RPackageTag? 
> 
> If I look at the RPackageTag tests - they all seem to use hard coded values 
> and so don’t really show you how you deal with the question above?
> 
> It really seems quite messy?
> 
> I naively thought that if I wanted a browser extension to deal with a 
> selected package tag - and file out some classes in that tag (for exercism) - 
> I could easily get the RPackageTag from any class and then use it?
> 
> Tim 


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