[squeak-dev] [ANN] Monticello 2.0.17

Damien Cassou damien.cassou at gmail.com
Mon Aug 11 10:23:52 UTC 2008


Hi,

you can have a look at the included documentation and at
http://wiki.squeak.org/squeak/5624.

On Mon, Aug 11, 2008 at 12:05 PM,  <ramiro.diaz.trepat at jpmorgan.com> wrote:
> Colin,
> It would be great if you could send a brief mail to the list describing what
> made you rewrite monticello and
> what are the new features or problems that it overcomes in this new
> incarnation.
> Also, where can we find more information about the design differences
> between 2.0 and the
> previous versions?
> Thanks and congratulations!
> Cheers
>
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> r.
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> Colin Putney <cputney at wiresong.ca>
> Sent by: squeak-dev-bounces at lists.squeakfoundation.org
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> 11/08/2008 07:27
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> [squeak-dev] [ANN] Monticello 2.0.17
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> 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
>
>
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