[squeak-dev] Ripping out parts of a Monticello snapshot

Nicolas Cellier nicolas.cellier.aka.nice at gmail.com
Thu May 12 21:13:49 UTC 2011


Not sure that this really answers your problem, because you still have
to filter out then...

What I would like are filters both in MC UI and ChangeList UI, a bit
like what exist in VW ChangeList tool.

Nicolas

2011/5/12 Nicolas Cellier <nicolas.cellier.aka.nice at gmail.com>:
> You can do two things:
>
> 1) From a MC changes browser (either via 'Changes' button or via
> 'History') you can file out all changes (don't select any item and
> press yellow).
>
> 2) From a .mcz, you can get the sources: open a FileList, select a
> .mcz, press 'open zip' button, there is a snapshot/source.st file you
> can extract
>
> Nicolas
>
> 2011/5/12 Frank Shearar <frank.shearar at angband.za.org>:
>> Hi,
>>
>> I'm trying to load Lukas Renggli's Helvetia into Squeak. It has many, many
>> dependencies on things I don't need - OmniBrowser, ECompletion, Polymorph,
>> ...
>>
>> These dependencies prevent me from simply loading an mcz into my image. I
>> know I can do this, with the undeclared classes and such going to
>> Undeclared, but sometimes this doesn't work: loading the package expects
>> certain behaviours in my image that don't exist, and things break badly.
>>
>> What I'm currently doing is taking the Helvetia image, and filing out things
>> by hand. As you can imagine, this is pretty tedious: I file out each system
>> category, and then file out the individual overrides/extensions for that
>> package.
>>
>> What would really be super awesome is for me to be able to say "Monticello,
>> load _this_part_ of the snapshot". Or even be able to say "file out
>> _this_part_ of the snapshot".
>>
>> Does such functionality exist? (Mea culpa; I have not looked.)
>>
>> frank
>>
>>
>



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