Class: stx_libtool

• Inheritance
• Description
• Class protocol
  • accessing - hg
  • description
  • description - compilation
  • description - contents
  • description - project information
  • description - svn

Inheritance:

   Object
   |
   +--ProjectDefinition
      |
      +--LibraryDefinition
         |
         +--stx_libtool

Package:

stx:libtool

Category:

* Projects & Packages *

Version:

rev: 1.216 date: 2023/07/04 13:17:36

user: cg

file: stx_libtool.st directory: libtool

module: stx stc-classLibrary: libtool

Description:

Package documentation:

This library contains ST/X development tools, 
such as browsers for classes, files, changes, the debugger etc.

Some tools have been obsoleted by modernized replacement versions.
For example, the old FileBrowser, SystemBrowser and Inspector classes have
mostly been replaced by improved versions with better UI and more functionality.
These new versions are mostly found in libtool2.

Typically, these tools are not needed in end-user (standAlone) applications.    

Why keeping the old stuff?
Because some ST/X customers have based their own tools around and on top of some
older classes here, these will remain and will still be deployed in future versions.
However, for most, no active development is ongoing 
(i.e. the old SystemBrowser may not support new features, such as multiple programming languages, 
 refactorings, highlighting, breakpoints etc.
 although we keep them in a working state)


[primary maintainer:]
    cg

copyright
COPYRIGHT (c) 1988 by Claus Gittinger / eXept Software AG
             All Rights Reserved

This software is furnished under a license and may be used
only in accordance with the terms of that license and with the
inclusion of the above copyright notice.   This software may not
be provided or otherwise made available to, or used by, any
other person.  No title to or ownership of the software is
hereby transferred.

Class protocol:

 hgRemoveContainesForDeletedClasses

If true, then containers for removed classes are __AUTOMATICALLY__ removed from the
repositoru. If false, obsolete containes are kept.

Default is true (remove obsolete containers) but if the repository is mirror of CVS and
you want to merge back to CVS at some point, you may want to return false to avoid deletions
of obsolete files. Usefull when branching off an old CVS repo with loads of mess.

 excludedFromPreRequisites

list all packages which should be ignored in the automatic
preRequisites scan. See #preRequisites for more.

 mandatoryPreRequisites

list packages which are mandatory as a prerequisite.
This are packages containing superclasses of my classes and classes which
are extended by myself.
They are mandatory, because we need these packages as a prerequisite for loading and compiling.
When loading whole packages,
mandatoryPreRequisites will be automatically loaded
BEFORE this packet has been loaded.
This method is generated automatically,
by searching along the inheritance chain of all of my classes.
Please take a look at the #referencedPreRequisites method as well.

 referencedPreRequisites

list packages which are a prerequisite, because they contain
classes which are referenced by my classes.
These packages are NOT needed as a prerequisite for compiling or loading,
however, a class from it may be referenced during execution and having it
unloaded then may lead to a runtime doesNotUnderstand error, unless the caller
includes explicit checks for the package being present.
When loading whole packages,
referencedPreRequisites will be automatically loaded
AFTER this packet has been loaded.
This method is generated automatically,
by searching all classes (and their packages) which are referenced by my classes.
Please also take a look at the #mandatoryPreRequisites method

 subProjects

list packages which are known as subprojects.
The generated makefile will enter those and make there as well.
However: they are only built, not forced to be loaded when a package is loaded;
for those, redefine #referencedPrerequisites or #mandatoryPreRequisites.

 additionalBaseAddressDefinition_bc_dot_mak

this is an optional definition, which (if present) may speed up the dll-loading a little
on win32 systems.

 stcWarningOptions

 classNamesAndAttributes

lists the classes which are to be included in the project.
Each entry in the list may be: a single class-name (symbol),
or an array-literal consisting of class name and attributes.
Attributes are: #autoload or #<os> where os is one of win32, unix,...

 extensionMethodNames

lists the extension methods which are to be included in the project.
Entries are 2-element array literals, consisting of class-name and selector.
A correponding method with real names must be present in my concrete subclasses
if it has extensions.

 companyName

Return a companyname which will appear in <lib>.rc

 description

Return a description string which will appear in nt.def / bc.def

 legalCopyright

Return a copyright string which will appear in <lib>.rc

 productName

Return a product name which will appear in <lib>.rc

 svnRepositoryUrlString

Return a SVN repository URL of myself.
(Generated since 2011-04-08)
Do not make the string shorter!!! We have to use fixed-length keyword!!!

 svnRevisionNr

Return a SVN revision number of myself.
This number is updated after a commit