So here we go again ... this time using native Smalltalk code to describe package contents in a DRY way:

Eval [
  PackageBuilder new
    name: 'MyPackage';
    namespace: 'MyNamespace';
    prereq: 'Package1';
    prereq: 'Package2';
    ...
    testsBelow: 'Tests' matching: '*.st';
    filein: 'File1.st';
    filein: 'File2.st';
    ...
    buildXml
]

If you are used to having one class per file, package descriptions tend to get a bit unwieldy. Take a look at Iliad's Core/package.xml, as an example. What you see is a lot of typing, some of it, gasp, even repeated. Let's DRY this up a bit.

The latest ebuild available on gentoo targets GNU Smalltalk 3.0.2. 3.1 has been out for quite some time and there are several improvements available via git. This post describes what I did to make things work on my Gentoo amd64 system.