Hi all,

I'm very happy to announce that Monticello 2.0 is ready for download.  
This is a ground-up rewrite, using a new, more flexible and more  
performant versioning engine.

http://www.wiresong.ca/static/releases/Monticello-current.zip

A note about versioning numbers. In an effort to make releases easier  
to understand, I'm adopting a new scheme of version numbers for  
releases. They'll each have a major, a minor and a release number.  
Major numbers will be incremented only for major architectural changes  
or significant incompatibility with prior versions. Minor numbers will  
be incremented for significant new features, while release numbers  
will be incremented for *any* change to the code or documentation.

This version, 2.0.17, is the first version of the 2.0 code base that I  
feel is ready for general use, though I've been using it for  
production code on several projects for several months now, and the  
basic versioning engine has been stable for quite some time. Version  
2.0.17 has only been tested on Squeak 3.10, but I hope to add support  
for earlier versions of Squeak soon.

Although MC 2.0 is stable and useful, there's one important feature  
that is still missing: a network enabled repository. The architectural  
differences between 1.x and 2.0 mean that the HTTP- and FTP-based  
repositories used with MC 1.x don't work well with 2.0. I'm planning  
to implement remote repositories in Monticello 2.1.

As always, feedback is welcome. One thing I've learned in using MC 2  
is that it's quite different than MC 1 and it takes a while to get  
used to it - even for me. This milestone has been a long time coming,  
and I'm glad to finally reach it, but it's really just the beginning.  
I'm looking forward to seeing what becomes of it.

Colin