[squeak-dev] Re: [Ann] Monticello15 File support (alpha)

Sophie (itsme213) itsme213 at hotmail.com
Sun Dec 7 19:04:33 UTC 2008


Wow. That's great, I am looking forward to using this.

Thanks! -- Sophie

"Keith Hodges" <keith_hodges at yahoo.co.uk> wrote in message 
news:493B593A.8030708 at yahoo.co.uk...
> Seasons Greetings Everyone,
>
> Monticello 1.5 "FINALLY" supports files.
>
> I have set LevelPlayingField to load this new version of MC1.5 If anyone
> has any problems with it do let me know asap.
>
> Keith
>
> ========
>
> PackageInfo comment reads:
>
> External Files Support
> ================
>
> The default implementation of the two methods below considers all files
> and directories (with their contents) matching the package name to be
> part of the package.
>
> #externalFiles
> #externalFilesMatches
>
> e.g. package name 'Release'.
>
> files matching would include:
>
> Release.text
> Release/Introduction.text
> Release/Tutorial/ch1.text
>
> External Files Support - Monticello
> ========================================
> *Only file based repositories (i.e. .mcz files) are supported at present
>
> Since your external files will change far less than your code, it is
> recommended that you
> use a separate package to manage files in order to save space and time.
>
> Files are included in the .mcz (which is a standard zip archive)
> as files/* according to the pattern files/<uuid>/<path>/<to>/<file>
>
> *note: the uuid will change with every snapshot, it is unique to that
> file in that snapshot
> *note: in changes browsers the file is considered to be changed if the
> fileSize has changed.
>
> Snapshotting a package with files uses a temporary directory in
> package-cache/files
> The #flushCachedVersions menu item deletes this directory.
>
>
> 






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