On 28-Jun-08, at 5:27 AM, Claus Kick wrote:

> If push comes to shove, I would even say, lets ditch them all and  
> just use SVN like the rest of the planet (if that is possible). It  
> is hard enough to sell a image-based language with a real IDE to the  
> C-style crowd, the package  management systems should not add their  
> grain of salt to the soup.

Been there, done that... <shudder/>

Monticello was created because this turned out not to be feasible in  
practice. The simple fact is that Smalltalk *is* image based, and  
that's a feature, not a bug. For those who can't accept that, there's  
Ruby.

Colin