Hi, Thanks for raising the issue.
The "ripple" effect exists anyway when you have nested configurations, even with groups, only when you have groups you do not notice it because it is implicit. As you say, the solution is to build tool support, and among others, I argued that tooling and debugging becomes simpler without groups. The only reason I see for wanting groups is that it makes it easy to edit configurations manually in the code browser. We should not optimize around this, but we should favor tooling. Just a note: you still did not address my original argument about the conceptual problem of a group not being first class :) Cheers, Doru On Tue, Mar 10, 2015 at 9:53 AM, Stephan Eggermont <[email protected]> wrote: > This is one of the issues we need to avoid: having an unneeded ripple > effect. GlamourCore was updated, making it necessary to update > everything that has a hard version dependency on it. Even worse is > that there is actually no change in GlamourCore 3.0.4. This problem > gets worse the more configurations we have. > > ConfigurationOfGTInspectorCore>>version203: spec > <version: '2.0.3' imports: #('2.0-baseline' )> > > spec for: #'common' do: [ > spec blessing: #'stable'. > spec description: 'version 2.0.3'. > spec author: 'AndreiChis'. > spec timestamp: '12/07/2014 13:58'. > > spec > package: 'GT-Inspector' with: 'GT-Inspector- > EstebanLorenzano.271'; > package: 'GT-InspectorExtensions-Core' with: > 'GT-InspectorExtensions-Core-TudorGirba.86'; > package: 'GT-Tests-Inspector' with: > 'GT-Tests-Inspector-AndreiChis.24'. > spec > project: 'GlamourCore' with: '3.0.3'. ]. > > > ConfigurationOfGTInspectorCore>>version204: spec > <version: '2.0.4' imports: #('2.0-baseline' )> > > spec for: #'common' do: [ > spec blessing: #'stable'. > spec description: 'version 2.0.4'. > spec author: 'AndreiChis'. > spec timestamp: '12/09/2014 12:08'. > > spec > package: 'GT-Inspector' with: 'GT-Inspector- > EstebanLorenzano.271'; > package: 'GT-InspectorExtensions-Core' with: > 'GT-InspectorExtensions-Core-TudorGirba.86'; > package: 'GT-Tests-Inspector' with: > 'GT-Tests-Inspector-AndreiChis.24'. > spec > project: 'GlamourCore' with: '3.0.4'. ]. > > The same happens with the subconfigurations of GT, a change in GTInspector > leads to a change in the playground. > > ConfigurationOfGTPlayGround>>version106: spec > <version: '1.0.6' imports: #('1.0-baseline' )> > > spec for: #'common' do: [ > spec blessing: #'stable'. > spec description: 'version 1.0.6'. > spec author: 'AndreiChis'. > spec timestamp: '10/06/2014 11:42'. > spec project: 'GTInspector' with: '1.0.6'. > spec package: 'GT-Playground' with: > 'GT-Playground-TudorGirba.38'. ] > > > ConfigurationOfGTPlayGround>>version107: spec > <version: '1.0.7' imports: #('1.0-baseline' )> > > spec for: #'common' do: [ > spec blessing: #'stable'. > spec description: 'version 1.0.7'. > spec author: 'AndreiChis'. > spec timestamp: '10/12/2014 19:56'. > spec project: 'GTInspector' with: '1.0.7'. > spec package: 'GT-Playground' with: > 'GT-Playground-TudorGirba.38'. ] > > And this means that we are better of with configurations having > high cohesion and low coupling. And tool support for groups. > > Stephan > > > > -- www.tudorgirba.com "Every thing has its own flow"
