Lost in a Dependency Maze
I'd like to use Squeak and Pharo more often, but then I run into problems like this:
- Spot a post promoting something like the MongoDB interface
- Go to the Project page
- Try to figure out what to load in what order
- After a few minutes of thrashing, give up
This is one area that the commercial vendors - Cincom and Instantiations - are way, way ahead in. If you load something that has pre-reqs, it's likely that the pre-reqs are set, and that they'll load automatically. Using Gofer with Pharo (for projects that have a configuration), that's also true. In Squeak? It's still a huge problem.