[squeak-dev] Installing Filetree

Fabio Niephaus lists at fniephaus.com
Tue May 2 11:22:18 UTC 2017


Hi Hannes,
-- 

On Tue, May 2, 2017 at 1:17 PM H. Hirzel <hannes.hirzel at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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?
>

This is what you are looking for (see Squeak):
https://github.com/dalehenrich/metacello-work

Please also note this issue:
https://github.com/dalehenrich/metacello-work/issues/434

Fabio


>
> 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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