Why is YAXO in the stream?

Brent Vukmer bvukmer at blackboard.com
Wed Nov 20 15:07:15 UTC 2002


Stephen --

Why not put your Version stuff on SqueakMap?  Sounds like a good thing 
for people to play with, along with the PackageInfo and SqueakMap 
packages...

Stephen Pair wrote:

> The only issue then is versioning the packages (which I think we could use my
>VersionNumber (http://minnow.cc.gatech.edu/squeak/2511) stuff to give
>package file names a version number...this could be optional with DVS if you
>want to use a version naming conventiong instead of CVS...it would allow you
>to handle the case where two people concurrently work on version 1 of a
>package and both try to file out their changes (the first one to file out
>would be "packageXYZ-2.st" and the second would be "packageXYZ-1.1.st").
>Merge tools could be added at a later date.
>
>VersionNumber and VersionHistory would allow a build script to say "give me
>the latest mainline version of packageXYZ" (VersionHistory can be inferred
>from a simple directory listing of everything matching "packageXYZ-*.st").
>You then just ask your VersionHistory instance for the latest mainline
>version.
>
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