about blessing: and others

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Stef has a set of feature requests that he'd like included in Metacello:

http://forum.world.st/about-blessing-and-others-td3865700.html

Original issue reported on code.google.com by [email protected] on 27 Oct 2011 at 8:51

• Blocking: Confusing method name in MetacelloToolbox #148, consider adding #package:requires: as a shortcut #69, Mechanism in validator to identify departures from recommendations for specifying versions #172

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Original comment by [email protected] on 18 Jan 2012 at 7:03

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Highlights of requests:

===
 spec baseline. 
 spec version: #development 
instead of:
 spec blessing: #baseline
 spec blessing: #development
or: 
        declareBaseline 
        declareVersion: 
===
 version: 
instead of:
 versionString:

 load:
instead of: 
 loads:

 package:
instead of:
 file:

giving:
      spec 
        className: 'ConfigurationOfCoolBrowser'; 
               version: '0.6'; 
               load: #('ALL' ); 
               package: 'CoolBrowser-Metacello'; 
               repository: 'http://www.example.com/CoolBrowser' ]. 
instead of:
      spec 
        className: 'ConfigurationOfCoolBrowser'; 
               versionString: '0.6'; 
               loads: #('ALL' ); 
               file: 'CoolBrowser-Metacello'; 
               repository: 'http://www.example.com/CoolBrowser' ]. 

className: (Issue 161) and file: are redundant (only supplied when defaults 
aren't used).

So the minimal spec could be:
      spec 
               version: '0.6'; 
               repository: 'http://www.example.com/CoolBrowser' ]. 
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I think we can do better with explicit specification of baseline and version, 
basically deprecating the blessing? 

And we can get by with the minimal spec as well ...

Original comment by [email protected] on 18 Jan 2012 at 8:02

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Issue 161 has been merged into this issue.

Original comment by [email protected] on 18 Jan 2012 at 8:03

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sounds great!

Original comment by [email protected] on 19 Jan 2012 at 7:43

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Original comment by [email protected] on 25 Jan 2012 at 6:28

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Original comment by [email protected] on 25 Jan 2012 at 10:35

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className: made optional in Metacello 1.0-beta.32 (dkh.674)

Original comment by [email protected] on 26 Jan 2012 at 7:27

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Original comment by [email protected] on 26 Jan 2012 at 7:52

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version: has been allowed since versionString: was added ... just haven't 
publicized it...

`load:` -- https://github.com/dalehenrich/metacello-work/issues/13

No real need to support #package:, since the #file: attribute isn't really used 
anymore ...

Original comment by [email protected] on 19 May 2012 at 10:05

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