Hi Sean,

we added initial support for Tonel in Squeak in this somewhat recent Metacello PR: https://github.com/Metacello/metacello/pull/515

It has not undergone as much testing as the filetree infrastructure and people occasionally still find bugs. Additionally, since we do not have a tight integration with the underlying git repo, versions and author timestamps are lost when loading Tonel repos in Squeak at the moment.

My personal opinion is that if you have showstopping issues on Windows due to filetree, moving to Tonel is the right call. Maybe you could consider doing the transition on a branch first, try loading it in Squeak5.3, and report any issues you notice.

Best,
Tom
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From: Squeak-dev <squeak-dev-bounces at lists.squeakfoundation.org> on behalf of Tobias Pape <Das.Linux at gmx.de>
Sent: Monday, August 24, 2020 8:22:39 PM
To: The general-purpose Squeak developers list
Subject: Re: [squeak-dev] Git and Tonel (and Magritte)

> On 24.08.2020, at 20:12, Sean P. DeNigris <sean at clipperadams.com> wrote:
>
> We would like to port Magritte to Tonel because we have reports of problems
> on Windows with long filenames and would like to understand the
> ramifications to users.
>
> Three questions:
> 1. Do any Squeakers load Magritte from
> https://github.com/magritte-metamodel/magritte ?

I used to.

> 2. Does Squeak support git?

Yes.

> 3. Does Squeak support Tonel?

No.

Best regards
        -tobias

>
> I found references to 2 and 3 in this ML, but nothing definitive. I'm
> generally interested in those answers beyond the current porting effort.
>
> In short, will anyone be disrupted by the proposed migration?