[Glass] Another metacello loading puzzle: xml

[Dale Henrichs via Glass]

Iwan,

The first thing I would ask you to do is to validate your baseline with 
the following:

   MetacelloToolBox validateBaseline: BaselineOf???

given that you have a circularity in your dependencies, the validate may 
not complete either, but if you do get some issues reported fixing those 
issues might clear up the circularity.

It's been awhile since I've had to debug a circularity and I don't 
remember the drill of the top of my head ... so I will need to spend a 
little time refreshing my memory as to the best way to solve the problem 
... I don't think that I have an explicit validation for circular 
dependencies and this may be an opportunity to add one ...

Dale


On 01/31/2018 07:05 AM, Iwan Vosloo via Glass wrote:
> Hi Dale,
>
> On 26/01/2018 15:58, Dale Henrichs via Glass wrote:
>>> I am ignoring pharo for the moment so that I can first sort out 
>>> issues in our own code (this also upgrades seaside and magritte and 
>>> the XML projects for us)..... and will then bug the Pharo-users list 
>>> when I am ready to tackle that issue.
>> It is likely to be a Metacello/Monticello issue in pharo as well --- 
>> the actual error and stack would be critical in determining this --- 
>> and if it is I am probably the best person to handle it for Pharo as 
>> well :)
>
> I am now turning to Pharo... and I managed to get Pharo 3.0 and 6.1 to 
> load what I can load in Gemstone3.4 with/without a network connection, 
> BUT... I now have issues loading our own project. Our own project is 
> loaded via a BaselineOf which only contains internal packages on the 
> local filetree repo.
>
> It breaks with a 'Apparent loop in before/after dependency 
> definitions' while trying to do 
> MetacelloMCVersionSpec(MetacelloVersionSpec)>>packageSpecsInLoadOrder
>
> I have put the (very short transcript) and stack from Pharo6.1 on 
> pastebin [1]. The MetacelloPackagesSpec asString is also useful - but 
> it contains information I'd rather keep confidential, so I will email 
> that off-list.  (I have also pushed the dependencies as per the output 
> of that MetacelloPackagesSpec asString through a topological sort and 
> found no circularity.)
>
> Can you shed any light?
>
> [1] https://pastebin.com/hUsQ4eSK
>
>
> Thanks
> Iwan
>
>