[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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