We discussed a bit the procedure, how to make it easy and convenient to install a multiple packages using Installer in a convenient way.

Prerequisites: - you having a multiple packages , and need some untrivial steps to complete installation, which usually can't be handled purely by MC - for that, you creating a MyPackage-Installer package and put it in same repository as your project located.

Now, what we want is: - load the MyPackage-Installer package

- for all its classes, which implement #install method, run them. then after we're finished, unload the MyPackage-Installer package, because it is no longer needed, since its only job is to load the actual project to image.

I think it could be as simple as adding this to Installer, so you could type:

Installer autoInstallFromMC: urlToRepository

then installer should list the repository files, try to find the package with name, which ends with 'Installer' string, and then load it and continue with the steps i described above.

2009/9/4 commits@source.squeak.org:

A new version of AlienInstaller was added to project The Inbox: http://source.squeak.org/inbox/AlienInstaller-mha.4.mcz

==================== Summary ====================

Name: AlienInstaller-mha.4 Author: mha Time: 4 September 2009, 9:33:33 am UUID: 12c65287-2707-43b1-895e-638d4b8ed545 Ancestors: AlienInstaller-mha.3

added script to have Alien installation proceed automatically

=============== Diff against AlienInstaller-mha.1 ===============

Item was added:

• ----- Method: AlienInstaller class>>postInstallInitialization (in category 'installation') -----
• postInstallInitialization
• #( ParseNode Alien AlienLibrary FFICallbackThunk Callback UnsafeAlien )
• do: [ :c | c initialize ]
• displayingProgress: 'Initializing ...'!

Item was added:

Item was added:

• ----- Method: AlienInstaller class>>recompileAlien (in category 'installation') -----
• recompileAlien
• (PackageInfo named: 'Alien') methods
• do: [:ea | ea actualClass recompile: ea methodSymbol]
• displayingProgress: 'Recompiling...'!

Item was changed:  ----- Method: AlienInstaller class>>install (in category 'installation') -----  install        | repository |        repository := (Installer repository: 'http://www.squeaksource.com/') project: 'Alien'.

• #( 'Alien-Core' 'Alien-CoreTest' 'Alien-Examples' 'Alien-LibC' )

• #( 'Alien-Core-First' 'Alien-Core' 'Alien-Examples' 'Alien-LibC' 'Alien-CoreTest' 'Alien-Last-Class-Initialize' )

do: [ :p | repository install: p ]                displayingProgress: 'Installing Alien packages ...'.

• self
• recompileAlien;
• postInstallInitialization!

• (PackageInfo named: 'Alien') methods
• do: [:ea | ea actualClass recompile: ea methodSymbol]
• displayingProgress: 'Recompiling...'!