Alan Grimes wrote:
The upside is that for something like the VMMaker, someone like me can publish a private version of it. I could start working with an older version then as the trunk stabalizes, I can use the software to synchronize my fork with whatever noteworthy changes were made to the trunk...
You can do this today. It's called Monticello and the repository is called Squeaksource[.com]. At Impara, for example (which is running a Squeaksource server), we have private versions for many of the main Squeak packages that allow us to update them as we see fit.
Cheers, - Andreas