[squeak-dev] Re: [ANN] Monticello 2.0.20

Paolo Bonzini bonzini at gnu.org
Thu Aug 14 19:37:30 UTC 2008


>     In MC1 version history is tightly coupled to package structure. In
>     MC2, version history is associated with the code, not its
>     organization, which means that you can reorganize the code without
>     losing the history. Further, you can have different organizational
>     schema operating at the same time. For example, one developer can
>     organize things into packages, while another uses change sets, and
>     they can still use MC2 to do merges. MC2 its self is organized into
>     a set of packages, but I use UnionSlices to bundle them up into a
>     single snapshot for release.
> 
>     Colin
> 
> 
> This is the killer app for me :)

For me too.  Slices can be files in GNU Smalltalk, which is absolutely 
cool; it can provide the way to check out code from the image to files. 
  Thanks very much for Monticello!

Paolo



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