[ANN] Monticello 1.216, MCInstaller 1.8, MonticelloCVS 1.12

Colin Putney cputney at wiresong.ca
Wed Aug 13 22:29:52 UTC 2003


Hi all,

Avi and I are happy to announce the newest release of Monticello, 
version 1.21, now on SqueakMap.

The focus of this release is the move to a new file format for on-disk 
repositories. The new format uses the extension '.mcz', and is 
basically a zip file containing a file out of the package source code, 
plus some versioning information. This release is backwards compatible 
with all files created by previous versions of Monticello and 
MonticelloCVS, so there's no need to convert existing repositories.

The main advantage of .mcz files is that they're also useful as a 
package distribution format, as they can be easily installed even if 
Monticello isn't loaded.

The new MCInstaller package provides file reader services for 
installing .mcz files and a SqueakMap installer for automatic 
installation of .mcz files posted to SqueakMap. It also records the 
version information so that if you later install Monticello, you can 
produce new versions with correct ancestry.

  Finally, MonticelloCVS has been updated to work with the new 
Monticello, and is  now distributed in .mcz format.

This release also includes contributions from: Daniel Vainsencher  and 
Lukas Renggli. Thanks guys.

Colin



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