On 27.07.2006, at 09:39, Klaus D. Witzel wrote:

> Nicolas
>
> thank you for taking the time for a response.
>
> On Wed, 26 Jul 2006 20:55:44 +0200, you wrote:
>
>> Klaus, i would say this is another source version control system.
>
> I did not have version *control* in mind but yes, scs could be used  
> for such ancient concepts (used them for > 30 years, quite an  
> experience).
>
> No, I was lead by the aim for more collaborative features (hmm,  
> since there are none in Squeak, should I say for *at least* one or  
> two collaborative features).
>

What I would suggest: Do not plan to save the world, at least not at  
first. If you now set out to build "the solution" we won't have for a  
looong
time, most likely never.

What we need first is

  - source offset in a property, not at the end of the bytecode. Use  
an Integer , so we get indefinite size of .source and .changens --
    One Problem Solved.
- Fix dan's source compression. This can work on the .changes, too,  
giving smaller releases or full development deployment
   for embedded systems (dan it for the weather station) or web servers.

With that, we have solved those problems that started the  
discussion... quite a step in the right direction.

After that, I personally would continue by cleaning up the sources/ 
changes handling and fileOut mechanism, thus then enabeling
experiments to make something really better. But this "real better"  
thing is the last step, not the first.

1) fix the real problem
2) clean up / refactor / generalise
3) now invent the future...

     Marcus
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