Convenience for working with packages
| Project: | GNU Smalltalk |
| Component: | VM |
| Category: | feature |
| Priority: | normal |
| Assigned: | Unassigned |
| Status: | active |
gst could have an option to load a package, like ruby -r somelib does.
Also apparently, using packages requires to install them in some global location first (or ~/.st) but it would be nice if packages could be loaded from the current directory or from besides the image file too.
I attach that to VM but a 'tools' components would make sense for issue tracking.
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Yes, "gst -P Blah" could be useful. I'm not sure of the semantics, should it be the same as gst-load or gst-reload?
> Also apparently, using packages requires to install them in some global location first (or ~/.st)
The image directory is supported too (not the current directory). This is used to load packages from the build directory when builddir != srcdir, for example, so it's not bitrotten definitely. :-)
Damien, could you look up http://smalltalk.gnu.org/project/issue/288 and comment on it?