Do I understand you correctly that the BaselineOfWhiteLabelProduct is a
subclass of BaselineOfCoreProduct?
If so, I have no idea what would happen and it certainly has never been
tested ... and as I think about this I can see that there would
definitely be problems ... I think you are lucky that you ran into
problems right off the bat:)
I know that a BaselineOf is a class and folks have been having fun
partitioning their BaselineOf "code" into different methods ... but the
fact that a BaselineOf is a class was a matter of convenience way back
when the only thing that could be versioned was a package and packages
only held onto classes ... and with a class, the browser could be
leveraged as a tool ...
If STON had existed back then and we had been using a disk based SCM, I
would have chosen STON for project specifications instead of a package
and a class (as I'm doing today with Rowan) ...
I understand what you are trying to do (I think) and I am (hopefully)
addressing what you are trying to do in Rowan, but I'm afraid that you
are just be out of luck trying to do this sort of thing with Metacello ...
You might be able to hack a solution that would _appear_ to work by
using a shared abstract superclass of both products and include the
superclass in both packages ... but I'm afraid that this approach would
more than likely just give you a bit more rope to hang yourself with
down the road:) ... of course putting the same class in two different
packages is problematic all by itself ...
I think that your best bet is to create a single BaselieOf and
differentiate your two products with two groups ... I know it's not
ideal, but at least this kind of thing has been pretty heavily tested ...
Dale
On 4/24/19 9:24 AM, Norbert Hartl wrote:
I’m trying to customize our current project with multiple baselines meaning
BaselineOfCoreProduct and BaselineOfWhiteLabelProduct. The latter is a subclass
of the former. My problem is that I don’t know which way to choose for loading
because
Metacello new
baseline: #WhiteLabelProduct
load
that does not work if BaselineOfCoreProduct is in its own package because that
is not loaded but the superclass is in there. I saw that I can provide an array
to baseline: but regardless in which order I put them the wrong is always
loaded first. So order of the array seem not to matter.
I could still load BaselineOfCoreProduct first and then
BaselineOfWhiteLabelProduct but I would like to have a better way of doing. I
could also image putting both baselines in the same package but I don’t know
how to use Metacello to say it should load a package name and use another named
Baseline.
Any help appreciated,
Norbert
