Hi

> On 25.08.2020, at 08:15, Beckmann, Tom <Tom.Beckmann at student.hpi.uni-potsdam.de> wrote:
> 
> 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.
> 

It would make me sad to see it go Tonel.
but that's just me :)
-t

> Best,
> Tom
> ________________________________________
> 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?
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