Thanks a lot Christophe! It worked like a charm. Now I'm able to build a shareable installation baseline that uses external git repositories not hosted in the oligopolistic providers by downloading them with Iceberg and loading from the hard disk with Metacello. I have updated the Grafoscopio readme with the new installation procedure[1] [1] https://mutabit.com/repos.fossil/grafoscopio/doc/tip/readme.md.html Now, as I'm using that pattern for almost all my baselines (as they're not hosted on GitHub, GitLab or Bitbucked), I would like to create some kind of Metacello "plugin" that extends its vocabulary to load several repositories in that way. I will be using a Pharo MOOC lesson from Stephan where he extended numbers to understand tabletop RPG vocabulary, but with Pharo 8. I wouldn't mind to host this on GitHub to make it easily loadable, as it would open the door to any non-GitHub repository and I will share the "plugin" here. Maybe it can be made a part of official Metacello. My point is that this short and key explanation inspires me to learn how to collaborate in more core technologies behind Pharo and to share my plans, advances and questions. So, thanks again. Cheers, Offray On 16/07/20 4:24 p. m., Christophe Demarey wrote:
Hi Offray,
You can also use something like: location := FileLocator localDirectory / 'iceberg' / 'pharo-contributions' / 'taskit'. (IceRepositoryCreator new location: location; remote: (IceGitRemote url: 'https://github.com/pharo-contributions/taskit.git'); createRepository) register.
Metacello new repository: 'gitlocal://', location fullName; baseline: 'TaskIt'; load
Regards, Christophe
Le 16 juil. 2020 à 20:04, Offray Vladimir Luna Cárdenas <offray.luna@mutabit.com> a écrit :
Hi Pierce,
I'm loading the stuff in the self Gitea repositories from local copies and in the order I know they are needed. So in a sense I following a similar behavior as yours (but I will use the `tonel:///` trick now when needed, thanks for it).
My problem is with sharing my baseline with others to ease their installation of the packages I develop, without using Git oligopolistic providers (GitHub, GitLab and Bitbucket), but instead self hosted community Gitea instances.
From this thread, I imagine that the path to follow is to extend the Metacello Git providers to include Gitea instances. I will see how the current ones are implemented and what can I contribute using them as a template for new providers and see how to contribute this back to Pharo as a Metacello "plugin". I will share advances and questions here.
Cheers,
Offray
On 15/07/20 10:19 p. m., Pierce Ng wrote:
On Wed, Jul 15, 2020 at 08:41:04AM -0500, Offray Vladimir Luna Cárdenas wrote:
So, a better question would be: Is possible to load programatically (via a code snippet) using Iceberg, Monticello or something else a baseline that installs a project and its dependencies and is hosted in an independent Git provider? How can self hosted git repositories containing baselines be loaded? Hi Offray,
I don't define dependencies in baselines for stuff in my self-hosted Gitea because I work on them myself and I know their interdependencies. And since I am working on them, they are all locally checked out.
I load my stuff in the correct order like this:
Metacello new baseline: 'StuffOne'; repository: 'tonel:///home/pierce/work/git/StuffOne/src'; load.
Metacello new baseline: 'StuffTwo'; repository: 'tonel:///home/pierce/work/git/StuffTwo/src'; load.
Here StuffTwo is dependent on StuffOne. To be clear, I have written baselines for StuffOne and StuffTwo, which is how I am loading them here. I'm just not defining in StuffTwo's baseline that StuffOne is a dependency.
For me this is more agile because I only need to edit my load snippet and I get immediate feedback by running it. The Git repo roundtripping of fixing up dependencies in baselines OTOH feels more like the edit-compile-test cycle. Eventually if/when I publish StuffOne and StuffTwo, I do have to define the dependencies but it'll be easy because then they'll be on Github.
Pierce