[Cuis] Cuis 4.2 is released

[Ken Dickey]

On Sat, 27 Jul 2013 13:15:40 +0200
Bernhard Pieber <bernhard at pieber.com> wrote:

> Hi Juan,
> 
> Congratulations on the new release! This is definitely a very important feature.
> 
> I can see how I load packages using the new Feature feature. However, I cannot find a way to specify dependencies of a package in the first place. Is there example code somewhere in the image?

Ah.  You are seeing evolution in action.  Features allows to auto-load required packages, the UI, documentation, and significant testing for that matter is what we collectively are doing as time permits.  And Time has been pretty strict lately.  8^)

Right now, Juan has been slimming down the image.  As a rule, for each announced release, I typically load a number of packages and look for breakage.  That is about the state of finding out what packages might be required.

I mentioned that one can add two lines to a .pck.st package file to add the provide/require info.

I suspect this will change a bit as we get more experience with Features and as change occurs.

The lines marked with + are new.

  'Description Solitaire Card Games'!
+ !provides: 'Morphic-Games-Solitaire' 1 16!
+ !requires: 'Graphics-Files-Additional' 1 nil!
  !classDefinition: #CardContainerMorph category: #'Morphic-Games-Solitaire'!

There should, and will (!) be a UI way to do this.

Evolution in baby steps.. by busy people..

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