Hooking Metacello load

[Guillermo Polito]

Hi Dale,

We are further advancing with Iceberg and its metacello integration here.

Now iceberg is not package based anymore (though packages are still there :)).

The thing is making iceberg package-independent required us to decouple us from monticello. And well, our metacello integration is aching a bit.

We already have a place to hook into metacello using a MetacelloPlatform subclass. However, we would like to control also how packages are loaded into the system. Right now metacello uses gofer and hooks into it by creating a `MetacelloGoferLoad` instance in a couple of places. What do you think if we move that to a hook in the MetacelloPlatform?

I'm thinking in something like:

MetacelloPlatform >> goferLoadClass

  ^ MetacelloGoferLoad

or

MetacelloPlatform >> goferLoadOnGofer: aGofer

  ^ MetacelloGoferLoad on: aGofer

and then inside metacello you can still do

MetacelloPlatform current goferLoadClass on: ....

or

MetacelloPlatform current goferLoadOn: aGofer.

That shouldn't break any external users and then on our side we could

IceMetacelloPlatform >> goferLoadClass

  ^ IceMetacelloGoferLoad

Maybe you have a better idea?

Tx,

Guille

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Guille Polito Research Engineer Centre de Recherche en Informatique, Signal et Automatique de Lille CRIStAL - UMR 9189 French National Center for Scientific Research - http://www.cnrs.fr Web: http://guillep.github.io Phone: +33 06 52 70 66 13