This might help you<div> <a href="https://github.com/dalehenrich/filetree/blob/master/README.md">https://github.com/dalehenrich/filetree/blob/master/README.md</a><div>and this</div><div> <a href="https://github.com/dalehenrich/metacello/blob/master/README.md">https://github.com/dalehenrich/metacello/blob/master/README.md</a></div>
<div><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Mar 19, 2012 at 12:03 PM, Chris Cunnington <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:smalltalktelevision@gmail.com">smalltalktelevision@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
<a href="http://twitter.com/#!/metacello/statuses/173496047207849985" target="_blank">http://twitter.com/#!/<u></u>metacello/statuses/<u></u>173496047207849985</a><br>
<a href="http://ss3.gemstone.com/ss/FileTree.html" target="_blank">http://ss3.gemstone.com/ss/<u></u>FileTree.html</a><br>
<a href="https://github.com/finworks/smallsource" target="_blank">https://github.com/finworks/<u></u>smallsource</a><br>
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Here in Biloxi at STIC, formerly Smalltalk Solutions. It's nice to go from Toronto at 11 degrees to Biloxi at 25 degrees. This is not Edinburgh.<br>
The casino has a weird policy on wifi so there is none in my room. There is an Ethernet jack and a cable bolted to the desk. It is no longer bolted. The details of why it is no longer bolted or how that nylon twist tie liberated itself I can neither confirm nor deny.<br>
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Met most of the people I'll see for the next few days last night. So the introductions are done, I'd say. I'm going to a presentation in an hour on Dart by Eric Clayberg, who works on Dart at Google. Should be interesting in an academic way, as nobody will ever use Dart for anything. Tomorrow is a talk by Sam Adams at IBM called Big POOP. They are having fun with that name - Parallel OOP.<br>
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I thought Smalltalk Directions, the parallel track, the academic track was going to be a cavalcade of stars. It has exactly one panel. I thought it was going to be a cavalcade, as there are about fifteen famous names on the paper vetting committee, none of which are here. If I understand correctly the Smalltalk Academic Advisory Council will have its one panel tomorrow with Andrew Black, Ralph Johnson, David West, and Roger Whitney. That is not to be missed. I guess the panel is about the future, so it could be about anything. Several people on that panel are destination speakers, I'd say.<br>
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Chris Muller and myself had an interesting conversation with Dale Henrichs last night. Dale's doing a talk called Practical Git For Smalltalk. He want's to disintermediate squeaksource and squeaksource3 and use GitHub for Smalltalk. Instead of saving to an mcz file, you'd save to a directory structure with a chunk file for each method. The snapshot in an mcz file would no longer be a binary, a serialized object graph, but .st files in directories. If I understood correctly, the metadata glue would be JSON.<br>
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Seems he had a light bulb moment reading about Otto Behrens at Finworks.biz, who has a process of doing just that. Otto's git page is above along with the SS3 location and the Metacello repository conversation. I tried loading ConfigurationOfFileTree in Pharo 1.3 and it failed. Then I tried to load ConfigurationOfFileTree in Pharo 1.4 and got the same message: 'The symbolic version #stable is not defined in ConfigurationOfFileTree for the current platform'. OK. I guess I'll ask Dale about it.<br>
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The other idea Dale was mentioning about Metacello was to remove its dependency on Gofer or Installer, so that it could be directly scriptable.He says instead of a whole inhalation of classes when Metacello is used, there would be only two living permanently in the image.<br>
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Seems I learned why MetacelloBrowser was a non-starter. For the sake of speed he used the class browser and then OmniBrowser to get Metacello running. But what Metacello needs he says is a wizard, where the user makes a few choices over a few pages. I can't say I'm familiar with any such thing in Smalltalk.<br>
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OK, looks like if you resist the temptation to use Metacello and use Monticello to load MonticelloFileTree and MonticelloFileTree-Core from SS3, then they load in Pharo 1.4. And there are class comments. I can read those. And talk to Dale. Look at that. They load into Squeak4.3 without exploding. That's good.<br>
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Well, you know what I know for the moment. I'm off to see a presentation on a brilliant language that will only ever work on Chrome. More coffee!<span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888"><br>
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