Re: [Help-smalltalk] quirk in the build system: overwritespackages.xml

[Paolo Bonzini]

> Since we're overhauling the PackageLoader, let's do this thing right.  I
> seem to recall it is because it failed to find a packages.xml file in the
> parent of the kernel directory... I'll see to fix it in a less hackish way.

It is easy to do actually.  Since we created packages.xml specially in 
the dist-hook target, we can create it at configuration time in $srcdir, 
accounting for the special case of checking out from CVS (which is the 
only time when you are allowed to write to the srcdir per the current 
GNU program standards).

BTW I've now implemented <namespace> and "gst -f", I only have to review 
the changes from the previous beta before I can roll it.  I'll announce 
it here and on freshmeat.

Paolo