[squeak-dev] Installing Filetree

H. Hirzel hannes.hirzel at gmail.com
Tue May 2 11:17:39 UTC 2017


Hello

The  previous email in this thread was about installing FileTree into
Squeak 4.4.

Coming back to FileTree installation.

Where do I find the most recent instructions to install FileTree into
Squeak5.1-release and Squeak6.0-trunk most updated version?

Thank you in advance.

--Hannes

On 12/28/12, H. Hirzel <hannes.hirzel at gmail.com> wrote:
> Dale
>
> The following script now loads FileTree nicely into Squeak 4.4-12324
> and everything works so far.
>
> Thank you!
>
> --Hannes
>
>
>
>     Installer ss3
>         project: 'FileTree';
>         install: 'MonticelloFileTree-Core.squeak43'.
>
>     Installer ss3
>         project: 'FileTree';
>         install:  'MonticelloFileTree-FileDirectory-Utilities.squeak43'.
>
>
>
>
>
>
> On 7/20/12, Dale Henrichs <dhenrich at vmware.com> wrote:
>> Hannes,
>>
>> Using FileTree is not getting away from Monticello ... FileTree implements
>> a
>> Monticello repository - all of the chewy goodness that is Monticello is
>> preserved with FileTree. FileTree repositories are simple a different
>> type
>> of MCDirectoryRepository where the packages are stored in plain text
>> (actually Utf8) files instead of zip.
>>
>> The fact that plain text files/directories are used for storage of the
>> packages means that you can use git/svn/mercurial or any of the myriad
>> other
>> SCMs to manage your Smalltalk source code. The plain text source means
>> that
>> you are not just storing binary blobs in the git/etc. repository.
>>
>> Also because the packages are stored in plain text directory structure
>> means
>> that other Smalltalk dialects can easily work with the disk-based package
>> structure transforming the package structure into whatever native package
>> structure they happen to use. Right now there are more Smalltalk dialects
>> that can share the FileTree package structure (after 6 months) than can
>> share mcz files (after 6 years for Monticello).
>>
>> I have been pushing git/GitHub, because GitHub offers superior
>> collaboration
>> tools and git gives you entree to GitHub, but the fact is that FileTree
>> is
>> entirely SCM neutral...
>>
>> Dale
>>
>> ----- Original Message -----
>> | From: "H. Hirzel" <hannes.hirzel at gmail.com>
>> | To: "The general-purpose Squeak developers list"
>> <squeak-dev at lists.squeakfoundation.org>
>> | Sent: Thursday, July 19, 2012 3:48:32 PM
>> | Subject: Re: [squeak-dev] Installing Filetree
>> |
>> | On 7/19/12, Bert Freudenberg <bert at freudenbergs.de> wrote:
>> | > On 19.07.2012, at 13:46, H. Hirzel wrote:
>> | >> The OrderedCollectio 'versions' is empty.
>> | >
>> | > Now you just need to figure out why it's empty :)
>> | >
>> | >
>> | > - Bert -
>> | >
>> |
>> | I am actually not a specialist in MontiCello This is exactly the
>> | reason why I want to switch to a standard version control system like
>> | git.
>> |
>> | Enough attempts and testing for today....
>> |
>> | --Hannes
>> |
>> |
>>
>>
>


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