And... it looks like the answer to "damaged system libraries" is: reinstall. I found that getpackageurl_jpacman had been damaged, I must have fat fingered it. And, reinstalling the base library fixed it.
But I'm still puzzled by the question about the use of require. Why doesn't require'pascal-j/kv' work here? Thanks, -- Raul On Mon, Mar 14, 2022 at 10:03 PM Raul Miller <rauldmil...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Ok, now I have some questions for the isi people, which I do not see > covered in https://code.jsoftware.com/wiki/Addons/Developers_Guide > > (1) To test this addon, I did: > > install'github:rdm/kv' > > And that installed a copy of the addon at pascal-j/kv (and gave me a > message that it had done so). So, question 1: if I accidentally > install from github an addon that overwrites a system addon, how would > I recover from that? > > But, > > require'pascal-j/kv' did not work. I had to use > require'~addons/pascal-j/kv/kv.ijs'. So, question 2: what has to be > done to enable the simpler require statement to work? > > (2) Now that Pascal has accepted my merge request, I wanted to test > that, but install'github:pascal-j/kv@main' was not working (it > returned 0). So I deleted my copy, and now I can't install it again. > So, question 3: what has to be done to test an install of this nature? > > (I would like to move on and suggest that Pascal make a master branch > in that repository, to eliminate the need for the @main in the install > statement, but first I want to make sure I understand what I'm talking > about.) > > Thanks, > > > -- > Raul > > On Mon, Mar 14, 2022 at 6:05 PM Raul Miller <rauldmil...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > On Mon, Mar 14, 2022 at 4:23 PM 'Pascal Jasmin' via Programming > > <programm...@jsoftware.com> wrote: > > > I'll remind "the world" that a dictionary implementation has been > > > published: https://github.com/Pascal-J/kv > > > > I have sent you a pull request, which should enable installation of > > pascal-j/kv as a github based addon. > > > > (And, there's a bit that could be done to polish it up, for general use.) > > > > Thanks, > > > > -- > > Raul ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm
