Hi Hannes, Thanks for your help! I agree that loading in Pharo 4 (I guess) and following your recipe works and is easy. My concern is not specific to ZeroMQ though. In fact I discovered that ZeroMQ package is just a very low-level bindings of Zeromq C API whereas I thought it was something more like the python bindings of 0mq that provides higher-level abstractions that are more useful. Besides the problem of persisting the state of a 0mq application in the image is quite hard to solve (and this was noted by the author of the Zeromq package). So I probably shall go with python this time. Beyond the specific problem of Zeromq package, I think there is something inconsistent in trying to develop Smalltalk/Pharo as a self-contained environment and not being able to load old code. In other languages, text editor or IDE are external tools but they usually open any source code. (That is why the title of my note is "Parser failure on FFI pragmas declaration in Pharo 5" and not "Cannot load ZeroMQ package source code".) I also wanted to point out that for people that are used to programming and as such could rapidly wander in corner areas of the language, I felt a tool / a procedure to manage dependencies and versions was missing.
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