I've found ScriptManager <http://www.squeaksource.com/ScriptManager.html> that does some of what I am looking for.
Now next step is getting it to save my data with versions into my local MC repository.

What do you do for saving bits and pieces of misc stuff you want to have in your image when you transition to a new image release?
How do you migrate scripts for customizing the image. eg loading a set of external packages you always want in your dev image?

Thx for any tips,
Ken

At 12:09 PM -0600 12/11/10, Chris Muller apparently wrote:
> > Well in the Workspace menubar menu I'm seeing I'm seeing save contents to file..., but no open. It doesn't make sense to have to go somewhere else to do that.
>
>I never saw that before, but the problem with it is it just "dumps"
>the text and doesn't assume FileList (model) behavior, where the
>workspace is now associated with that file so that, when I press
>Command+s, it will save to the file again.  To get that behavior we'd
>have to "become" the Workspace to a FileList which is too complicated.
>
>Now that I've seen "save contents to file..." I'd actually like to
>remove it; it is totally inconsistent.
>
>A Workspace is supposed to be transient, that's why it does not have
>FileList capabilities.
>
> - Chris
>
>
>
>>
>> The issues are discussed in the mantis report.
>>
>> I would like a convenient way to programmatically save all my Workspaces to text files, then reload them for migration into a new image.
>>
>> Ken
>>
>>>Incidentally, we do already have a way to open files into a workspace.
>>>
>>>  World Menu | open... | file...
>>>
>>>But I agree it would be nice to be able to spawn independent windows
>>>from the FileList..
>>>
>>>  - Chris
>>>
>>>On Tue, Dec 7, 2010 at 4:05 PM, Ken G. Brown <kbrown at mac.com> wrote:
>>>> I'd like to suggest that
>>>> M5669-Workspace-openFile.2.cs
>>>>
>>> > from http://bugs.squeak.org/bug_view_advanced_page.php?bug_id=5669 get pulled into Squeak 4.2.
>>>>
>>>> It has changes for Kernel-Models, ST80-Controllers, and Tools-Base.
>>>> What are the steps necessary to get this changeset applied?
>>>>
>>>> Ken G. Brown
>>>>
>>>>
>>
>>
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