As of Rowan3 commit the semantics of the RwProject>>reload method has changed. The new semantics are that just the changed packages are loaded and any changes to load specifications are ignored ... this changes makes the #reload method more generally useful as there are certain corner cases where the old semantics could produce unexpected/unwanted results.
Occasionally, it is desirable to reread the load specs and packages since something may have changed in the specs that the user wants to pick up ... assuming that the user didn't use any custom projectsHome manipulation a simple reload specs menu item could be offered when it is necessary to pick up changed specifications from disk ...
If users have customized their loading process, the new implementation of reload is perfectly save, while the old variant was not safe ... of course the reload specs menu item would not be safe if custom loading has been done and we may want to have a warning ...
This is a placeholder so that sometime in the future we can discuss what we want to do ... to support this not completely uncommon use case ...
As of Rowan3 commit the semantics of the RwProject>>reload method has changed. The new semantics are that just the changed packages are loaded and any changes to load specifications are ignored ... this changes makes the #reload method more generally useful as there are certain corner cases where the old semantics could produce unexpected/unwanted results.
Occasionally, it is desirable to reread the load specs and packages since something may have changed in the specs that the user wants to pick up ... assuming that the user didn't use any custom projectsHome manipulation a simple
reload specsmenu item could be offered when it is necessary to pick up changed specifications from disk ...If users have customized their loading process, the new implementation of reload is perfectly save, while the old variant was not safe ... of course the
reload specsmenu item would not be safe if custom loading has been done and we may want to have a warning ...This is a placeholder so that sometime in the future we can discuss what we want to do ... to support this not completely uncommon use case ...