Once we get a more-stable 4.5 I want to release new versions of both of these.


On Sat, Jul 20, 2013 at 3:54 PM, Casey Ransberger
<casey.obrien.r at gmail.com> wrote:
> +1 I've actually wondered about using the repo feature of Magma, but I haven't vocalized it. SqueakSource is wonky and Magma isn't, which is enough reason to try it.
>
> Also, more people should check out Maui: it's fantastic.
>
> On Jul 20, 2013, at 1:21 PM, "David T. Lewis" <lewis at mail.msen.com> wrote:
>
>> On Sat, Jul 20, 2013 at 01:11:34PM -0500, Chris Muller wrote:
>>>>> I don't see anything at all that takes me to the MCVersionInfo
>>>>> corresponding
>>>>> to a version in the versions browser. Am I missing something?
>>>>
>>>> No.  The "system" is.  As I understand it, the only way to locate an MC
>>>> package version containing the first occurrence of a specific method version
>>>> is to search versions of the MC package in a repository.  One at least knows
>>>
>>> If you're doing it manually like that, paging through the in-memory
>>> ancestry history (via the "History" button) is much faster than
>>> opening versions in the repository.
>>>
>>>> that the commit date of the MC package is >= the date of the version.  One
>>>> needs to compare two MC packages and verify that the method version doesn't
>>>> exist in the first and does exit in the second.  I've done this manually
>>>> enough to know that it should be automated ;-)
>>>
>>> It was automated, many moons ago.  I use this almost every day.
>>>
>>>  http://wiki.squeak.org/squeak/5603
>>>
>>
>> Two questions:
>>
>> 1) Can this capability be made available and visible in the browsers that
>> most of us use every day?
>>
>> 2) Why aren't we (all of us including most especially myself) paying more
>> attention to Magma and making use of it as supporting infrastructure? It
>> seems blindingly obvious that this would be a good way to support shared
>> access to a database of Squeak version history.
>>
>> Dave
>>
>>
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