Abstract : Smalltalk originally did not have a package manager. Each Smalltalk implementation defined its own with more or less functionalities. Since 2010, Monticello/Metacello[Hen09] one package manager is available for open-source Smalltalks. It allows one to load source code packages with their dependencies. This package manager does not have all features we can find in well-known package managers like those used for the Linux operating system. This paper tries to identify the missing features and proposes solution to reach a full-featured package manager. A part of this solution is to repre-sent packages and dependencies as first-class objects, leading to the definition of a new dependency model.
https://hal.inria.fr/hal-01086083 Contributor : Christophe DemareyConnect in order to contact the contributor Submitted on : Friday, November 21, 2014 - 6:07:27 PM Last modification on : Thursday, January 20, 2022 - 4:12:23 PM Long-term archiving on: : Friday, April 14, 2017 - 8:38:17 PM
Christophe Demarey, Damien Cassou, Stéphane Ducasse. Towards a new package dependency model. International Workshop on Smalltalk Technologies, Aug 2014, Cambridge, United Kingdom. ⟨hal-01086083⟩