Installing Smalltalk project from GitHub Repository

Question

First of all: I never worked with Smalltalk before, so it's a bit of a culture shock for me. I am using Squeak 5.1 (32bit).

Now to my question: I want to install a Smalltalk project from a GitHub Repository. I successfully installed Metacello using this code, executing it in Transcript:

"Get the Metacello configuration (for Squeak users)"
Installer gemsource
    project: 'metacello';
    addPackage: 'ConfigurationOfMetacello';
    install.

"Bootstrap Metacello Preview, using mcz files (#'previewBootstrap' symbolic version"
((Smalltalk at: #ConfigurationOfMetacello) project 
  version: #'previewBootstrap') load.

"Load the Preview version of Metacello from GitHub"
(Smalltalk at: #Metacello) new
  configuration: 'MetacelloPreview';
  version: #stable;
  repository: 'github://dalehenrich/metacello-work:configuration';
  load.

"Now load latest version of Metacello"
(Smalltalk at: #Metacello) new
  baseline: 'Metacello';
  repository: 'github://dalehenrich/metacello-work:master/repository';
  get.
(Smalltalk at: #Metacello) new
  baseline: 'Metacello';
  repository: 'github://dalehenrich/metacello-work:master/repository';
  load.

And I also installed the Metacello Scripting API using this code:

Installer gemsource
    project: 'metacello';
    install: 'ConfigurationOfMetacello'.

If I now want to install a project from a GitHub Repository, for example this:

Metacello new
  baseline: 'Animations';
  repository: 'github://hpi-swa/animations/repository';
  load.

Then I allways get this error:

gofer repository error: 'GoferRepositoryError: UndefinedObject>>thisOSProcess'...ignoring

Am I missing something?

The `OSProcess` package appears to be missing. What OS are you working on? — Max Leske, Sep 21 '16 at 07:58
I've repeated the same steps you describe in a brand new installation for the Mac and it worked just fine. — Leandro Caniglia, Sep 21 '16 at 11:17
@MaxLeske I am working on Windows and I use the All-in-One Version of Squeak (which should run on Windows, Mac and Linux). — Michael Langhammer, Sep 21 '16 at 16:06

score 2 · Accepted Answer · answered Sep 21 '16 at 17:09

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You're absolutely right, that doesn't work. OSProcess is has not yet been marked as compatible with Squeak 5.1 and even if it were, it's not being pulled in by Metacello. I'll report this to the developers.

In the mean time you can load OSProcess with

(Installer ss project: 'OSProcess') install: 'OSProcess-dtl.98'

answered Sep 21 '16 at 17:09

Max Leske

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Thanks, you helped a lot. Now I'm able to load the repo given above. Do you have an idea how to load this [repo](https://github.com/matthias-springer/space-cleanup)? It seems to miss a BaselineOf directory. – Michael Langhammer Sep 21 '16 at 18:28
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Space Cleanup isn't a Metacello-Project. You should do this: (1) clone the repo; (2) Add a Monticello Filetree repository in Squeak and use the 'packages' directory of the repo (3) load the packages manually via monticello (alphabetic order seems fine here) – Tobias Sep 21 '16 at 19:28
@Tobias Thx for the instruction :) – Michael Langhammer Sep 21 '16 at 19:35

Installing Smalltalk project from GitHub Repository

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