The road to 1.0
Dale
related to the currentVersion code or the removal of all of those
methods, so it appears that things are fairly stable for Metacello.
I am planning on fixing the address following issues before releasing
1.0:
- Issue 47 "Standardize date format for spec "
- Issue 53 "OB-Metacello menu should have 'How To...' menu "
- Issue 54 "Add a changelog message to spec to avoid using
description as a multiline message "
- Issue 57 "specificy method category for version category in
Metacello version constructor "
- Issue 58 "make #file: optional in project reference specification
"
- Issue 59 "repository overrides should be used for
MetacelloProject>>updateProject "
- finalize the Metacello version format
Scan the issue list[1] and let me know if there are any other issues
that should be addressed or submit an issue for things you'd like
addressed before 1.0.
Dale
Simon Denier
Yep, I would like issue 56 to be tackled with 1.0, please Dan :)
"save configurtion that uses Gofer>>commit:"
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Simon
Dale Henrichs
Miguel Enrique Cobá Martinez
> done:)
>
Some thing that I would like is that metacello, after resolving the
install sequence, and just before beginning installing, connect to the
relevant repositories, and download the required packages files to the
machine being installed. Then only after getting all the packages
downloaded, begin the actual install. Why? because somethimes, after
downloading and installing 40 packages, the number 41 can't be
downloaded due to
- network problems,
- repository down,
- you have just 5 minutes left before the flight leave
- you're testing your ConfigurationOfXXX and can't bear the time between
a package install and the next one while is downloading. :)
- you don't want the image get half installed in the event that the last
package wasn't found in the repo.
I hope isn't that hard but if could be done would be great.
I think that is related to:
http://code.google.com/p/metacello/issues/detail?id=24
Cheers
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Dale Henrichs
Good point ... it shouldn't be too difficult and it certainly would be worth doing ... If it turns out to turn into a rats nest I'll defer it, but it is definitely worth making an attempt, since it will save grief ...
As I ponder this feature, I imagine that I would add a command something like 'prefetchLoad:' that would initiate the prefetch operation ...Would that work for you?
Dale
Miguel Enrique Cobá Martinez
> Miguel,
>
> Good point ... it shouldn't be too difficult and it certainly would be worth doing ... If it turns out to turn into a rats nest I'll defer it, but it is definitely worth making an attempt, since it will save grief ...
>
> As I ponder this feature, I imagine that I would add a command something like 'prefetchLoad:' that would initiate the prefetch operation ...Would that work for you?
>
Yes, I was thinking that this should be, if implemented, transparent to
the user, that is, he shouldn't have to specify that wants to first
download the packages and then proceed with the install. I think that
the way Metacello work should be always to first download everything
(with progress bars of course) and then proceed with the install. Just
like apt-get/aptitude work. they first resolve the packages versions,
then download everything, finally install and configure.
Unless someone have an argument for having the option to mix
download/install packages, I think that this is the way to go.
And as we are already reviewing the wish list, (I suppose that this is
more feasible to do for 1.1 version) that Metacello avoid to use
progress bars, outputing all the text messages and warnings to the
transcript only, maybe with a message like silently: true (that by
default is false so the behaviour is just like now). Why, because this
will permit to completly script a metacello config and (maybe
redirecting the transcript output to the console) help in the build
process like the ones lukas and the pharo team is working at. But as I
said, maybe this isn't as necessary but in a posterior release it would
be good to have.
Anyway, thanks for the hard work you're putting on this. It's already
help us a lot and shown their value to the community.
Cheers
Dale Henrichs
You have a good point ... I've already got something like this for the GemStone release process, where we create a directory-based repository containing all of the mcz needed to bootstrap a GLASS configuration, so I could adapt the algorithm to work for Metacello in general.
I've submitted an issue about the progress bars ... originally I dumped all of the progress info to the transcript, but folks who don't normally open Transcripts complained about how long loads would take, so put in the progress bars. Would it make sense to push the progress bars into the Metacello tools group (i.e., OB-Metacello)? Loading OB-Metacello is an indication that you're in an interactive development image...Personally when I'm interactively loading things I can get a better feel for how far things have progressed with the progress bars than I can get from the Transcript...
Miguel Enrique Cobá Martinez
> Miguel,
>
>
> I've submitted an issue about the progress bars ... originally I dumped all of the progress info to the transcript, but folks who don't normally open Transcripts complained about how long loads would take, so put in the progress bars. Would it make sense to push the progress bars into the Metacello tools group (i.e., OB-Metacello)?
> Loading OB-Metacello is an indication that you're in an interactive development image...Personally when I'm interactively loading things I can get a better feel for how far things have progressed with the progress bars than I can get from the Transcript...
>
Yes, I agree that there isn't anything better than a progress bar to get
the current state of a process. Just a simple usage like:
my_build_script.st
Gofer new
squeaksource: 'MetacelloRepository';
package: 'ConfigurationOfPackage';
load.
((Smalltalk at: #ConfigurationOfPackage) project version: '1.0')
silently: true; "or outputToTranscript: true"
load.
"Save as magma.image"
SmalltalkImage current saveAs: 'magma'.
SmalltalkImage current snapshot: true andQuit: true.
Where silently, if not specified is false, so that uses progress bar as
now. But when someone is scripting some image build, they specify it to
true so that the image just work "headless" in loading packages.
But Dale, I know that this particular change, even externally is simple,
is very intrusive changing calls to progress bar with calls to log to
transcript, so don't worry a lot for this. If someday is implemented, it
will be good, if not, well, nothing is lost. The code works correctly
and as good as it can be with the current behavior. Besides, maybe this
feature isn't really needed, I *think* that it will be useful for
continuous integration and automatic builds of pharo images where the
complete log of the image building can be extracted to a file and shown
in the interface of the image building software (like mason). But it is
just what I think. Lukas or the people building the infrastructure will
have better opinions than mine.
Mariano Martinez Peck
The MetacelloPharoPlatform >> do: aBlock displaying: aString
I would like to have it only with Metacello-OB as Dale suggested.
Regarding the prefetchLoad: cannot we use the project loadType: #linear.
So that we can do project loadType: #preFetch.
?
or the type is something different that I a confusing and mixing ?
Cheers
Mariano
Mariano Martinez Peck
Ok...today I put ImageForDevelopers again inside the Metacello configuartion, to try if it was working but I am still having problems. I attach PharoDebug.log
To reproduce you have to take a PharoCore10515. If you try to load ConfigurationOfPharo in that image, in this way, it works ok:
Gofer new
squeaksource: 'MetacelloRepository';
package: 'ConfigurationOfPharo';
load.
((Smalltalk at: #ConfigurationOfPharo) project version: '1.0-rc3.10515') load.
The problem is that I run the core image from command line sending that text in a file (as parameter). Only there I have this problem :(
Thanks
Mariano
Dale Henrichs
I've implemented #silently: in 1.0-beta.25...it is a message to the MetacelloMCVersion and it turns off (or on) progress bars during that load. I've fixed the transcript feedback so that you can get pretty good information from the transcript if you have the progress bars turned off (Gemstone doesn't have proress bars yet)...
In a future release we can get fancier with the logging/notification.
I really appreciate your feedback.
Dale
Dale Henrichs
Try using Metacello 1.0-beta.25 ... today I've just run through loading latest for Seaside3.0/Seaside2.8/Moose so I don't anticipate to many changes and if you run into other troubles now would be a good time. So I've tried the following to good effect (once 1.0-beta.25 is loaded noisily):
| version |
version := ConfigurationOfMetacello project version: '1.0-beta.25'.
version silently: true.
version load: 'ALL'.
and it should work if you with ConfigurationOfPharo...
Dale
----- "Mariano Martinez Peck" <maria...@gmail.com> wrote:
| Hi Dale. I am experimenting again the problem with the progress bar.
| Do you
| remember that when loading ImageForDevelopers trough Metacello I have
| this
| problem as in the post load of that package I reset the progress bar
| ?
|
| Ok...today I put ImageForDevelopers again inside the Metacello
| configuartion, to try if it was working but I am still having
| problems. I
| attach PharoDebug.log
|
| To reproduce you have to take a PharoCore10515. If you try to load
| ConfigurationOfPharo in that image, in this way, it works ok:
|
| Gofer new
| squeaksource: 'MetacelloRepository';
| package: 'ConfigurationOfPharo';
| load.
|
| ((Smalltalk at: #ConfigurationOfPharo) project version:
| '1.0-rc3.10515')
| load.
|
| The problem is that I run the core image from command line sending
| that text
| in a file (as parameter). Only there I have this problem :(
|
| Thanks
|
| Mariano
|
| On Tue, Feb 23, 2010 at 11:10 AM, Mariano Martinez Peck <
| maria...@gmail.com> wrote:
|
| > For the progressBar, I would let something by default as it is in
| > MetacelloPlatform >> do: aBlock displaying: aString
| >
| > The MetacelloPharoPlatform >> do: aBlock displaying: aString
| >
| > I would like to have it only with Metacello-OB as Dale suggested.
| >
| > Regarding the prefetchLoad: cannot we use the project loadType:
| #linear.
| >
| > So that we can do project loadType: #preFetch.
| >
| > ?
| >
| > or the type is something different that I a confusing and mixing ?
| >
| > Cheers
| >
| > Mariano
| >
| > 2010/2/20 Miguel Enrique Cobá Martinez <migue...@gmail.com>
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Mariano Martinez Peck
Thanks a lot.
Mariano
Miguel Enrique Cobá Martinez
> Hi Dale. I am experimenting again the problem with the progress bar.
> Do you remember that when loading ImageForDevelopers trough Metacello
> I have this problem as in the post load of that package I reset the
> progress bar ?
>
Is this problem again?
http://lists.gforge.inria.fr/pipermail/pharo-project/2010-January/020973.html
or is a new one?
Cheers
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Mariano Martinez Peck
Mariano,
Try using Metacello 1.0-beta.25 ... today I've just run through loading latest for Seaside3.0/Seaside2.8/Moose so I don't anticipate to many changes and if you run into other troubles now would be a good time. So I've tried the following to good effect (once 1.0-beta.25 is loaded noisily):
| version |
version := ConfigurationOfMetacello project version: '1.0-beta.25'.
version silently: true.
version load: 'ALL'.
Here I have a problem. Evaluating this:
Gofer new
squeaksource: 'MetacelloRepository';
package: 'ConfigurationOfMetacello';
load.
version := ((Smalltalk at: #ConfigurationOfMetacello) project version: '1.0-beta.25').
version silently: true.
Gives me a DNU with silently:
After that, I checked evaluating:
ConfigurationOfMetacello project currentVersion
and prints ~1.0-beta.24.1 [ConfigurationOfMetacello]
Instead of beta.25. Of course, in 24.1 there was no silently, and thus, the DNU.
Any idae how can I fix this ? do you know when you are going to release beta25 ?
As I want to release PharoRC3 SOON I want so see if I rollback my change (not a big deal at all) or if I wait.
Thanks a lot Dale.
Mariano
Mariano Martinez Peck
El sáb, 20-03-2010 a las 01:43 +0100, Mariano Martinez Peck escribió:
> Hi Dale. I am experimenting again the problem with the progress bar.Is this problem again?
> Do you remember that when loading ImageForDevelopers trough Metacello
> I have this problem as in the post load of that package I reset the
> progress bar ?
>
http://lists.gforge.inria.fr/pipermail/pharo-project/2010-January/020973.html
or is a new one?
Yes, it is the same problem. Look how I changed ConfigurationOfPharo in the last version.
Cheers
Mariano
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