Hi Gabriel

Happy new year

> Nice, Metacello needs some love.

Indeed :)
And we are making progress.

> I will try with our repos and report back if any problems arise. 

Excellent.
> 
> Are there any docs or details on the strict mode?

Not that I remember. Guille can tell us. 

> Is it enabled by default,
No because nothing would work :)

> or do we need to enable it per repo? I can give it a try too. 

I will ask Guille to tell us.


> 
> Regards,
> Gabriel
> 
> On Mon, Dec 29, 2025 at 5:55 AM stephane ducasse <[email protected] 
> <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
>> Hello 
>> 
>> Under the radar, we are actively continiously cleaning Pharo deep core so 
>> that we can work 
>> on new features.
>> 
>> For metacello, in Pharo 13 we introduced a strict mode (so that we can 
>> detect hidden dependencies), 
>> and other loading features to support module experimentations. It will make 
>> Pharo code more robust
>> in the long term. 
>> 
>> Since a couple of months we are actively simplifying/cleaning Metacello (as 
>> the version available in Pharo) because we want to introduce new features 
>> such as the possibility to force the reload of baselines and others. 
>> 
>> Now the unit test coverage of metacello is quite low and we do not use/know 
>> all the features
>> that are available and that you may rely on. 
>> 
>> So we would love to have beta testers that can just try to load their code 
>> in Pharo 14 alpha
>> and report potential bugs or features drop we would have introduced. 
>> 
>> So do not hesitate and this is a nice way to help pharo
>> 
>> S.

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