Although I haven't used Envy myself, the consensus I got from a number
of others who have is that it is very complex, very powerful, and very
constraining of ones style of development. If you can easily align your
style to match Envy, you will love it -- if you cannot, you will hate
it.

That said, we should now hear from both camps very shortly. :-)

-- Dwight

Michael Rueger wrote:
> 
> Dwight Hughes wrote:
> >
> > I seem to be seeing more and more need for a Squeak-native
> > source/version/goodie/library/bug manager -- perhaps something along the
> > lines of the Smalltalk-80 Version Manager described in the Green Book.
> > This was a set of inter-related tools that communicated through the
> > version manager to a code repository -- it brought together bug reports,
> 
> > Thoughts? Comments?
> 
> Envy provides a lot of the mentioned capabilites (version management,
> configuration maps, repository replication) and is available for VW, VA
> and VA Java (at least): http://www.oti.com/briefs/ed/edbrief40.htm
> 
> If OTI could be persuaded to allow the Squeak community to use it and
> provide some help in porting it from one of the existing
> implementations...
> 
> Michael
> 
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