[etoys-dev] Preparing for Monticello-based updates

[Andreas Raab]

On 4/20/2010 4:35 PM, Bert Freudenberg wrote:
> We still need to refine the categorization. I had a crazy idea: in the trunk image, generate a list of which class is in which category, same for all methods. Then recategorize everything in the Etoys image to match that (provided the class/method exists). Since this only recategorizes, it should do no harm. Could that possibly work?

Yes. I was thinking about the same thing.

> I have been playing with the idea to keep a traditional update stream in place as fall-back ... in case some surgery is needed that would be infeasible with MC updates.

I think that's wise, in particular in the early stages. In fact, you 
might consider using the update stream until the dust settles and post 
updated MC packages after installing each update. This could be 
automated and while you're trying to catch up all you'd need to do is to 
load updates first, then merge MC packages and the diffs should be 
empty, no?

Cheers,
   - Andreas