On 22 Jul 2018, at 19:35 , Sean P. DeNigris <sean@clipperadams.com> wrote:

Andrew Black-2 wrote
spec
baseline: 'SmaCC-Reification' 
with: [ spec repository: 'github://apblack/SmaCC:fglr' ].

This line will not work. What you're saying here is load a BaselineOfXyz
where Xyz = 'SmaCC-Reification'. In fact you want to load the package. I
think you can just change the keyword #basline: to #package:, although SmaCC 
has a 'Reification' group, which might be better. In any event, if you just
want to make sure that the 'SmaCC-Reification' package is loaded when you
load SmaCC, then I think what you're after is:
spec
baseline: 'SmaCC' with: [ spec loads: #('Reification' ) ]

I think the above would replace both of your SmaCC-related lines (you can
specify multiple entities in to #loads: if needed.

NB. the preferred syntax in a baseline is literal arrays like above i.e. #()
instead of curly-brace runtime arrays like {'Grace-Tests' . 'Grace-Ast'}


Thanks for the suggestions.  But now I am more confused than ever!  Can you tell me what this line actually means.  That is, what does the #baseline:with: method actually declare?  Where should I put this statement?  In baselineOfSmaCC, or baselineOfGrace?  Why?

Note that the SmaCC-Reification package is not part of the current normal load for SmaCC ��� that���s why I have to specify it separately.  Is this declaration saying the opposite?  If not, what is it saying?

Earlier, you wrote:

spec package: 'SmaCC-Reification' with: [ spec requires:
#('SmaCC-Smalltalk-Parser' 'SmaCC-Runtime' 'SmaCC-Java') ]

AFAICT this is not necessary because these dependencies are declared in
BaselineOfSmaCC.

These declarations are the very lines from baselineOfSmaCC that declare these dependencies ��� aren���t they?  If I take them out, how will Metacello know that loading SmaCC-Reification requires the three packages listed in the array?

I���m sorry if I sound frustrated ��� none of this makes any sense to me.  There seems to be no documentation other than the very high-level stuff that describes th eoverall purpose of package dependencies ��� which I think that I understand.    

Andrew