[V3dot10] Monticello and 3.10

[Philippe Marschall]

07 Aug 2007 10:18:15 -0400, Lex Spoon <lex at lexspoon.org>:
> What shall we choose about Monticello and 3.10?  Opening up the latest
> development image and updating in the package browser, I see 4
> available versions of Monticello:
>
>   - the version that comes with it
>   - version 1.5
>   - the "bootstrap" version needed to install the above
>   - version 2

What I know of is:
- "atomic loading" by Ralph
- atomic loading by Keith (backported from Monticello2)
- noatomic loading:
-- several backports of Impara functionality into 3.9 in general also
including a modified PackageInfo that supports preambles postscripts
and works the MonticelloConfigurations in Squeak 3.9
- Monticello Public Modifications by Keith

Cheers
Philippe

> It is really great to see so much attention being paid to Monticello!
> For a network-maintained version of Squeak to work out, it is
> essential to have a good system for loading and unloading packages.
>
>
> For the specific issue of 3.10, though, we need to settle down on a
> standard version, plus possibly some optional variants.  The main
> thing I am worried about are compatibility issues.  While forks in
> general are fine, it does not make sense to have a fork *within* the
> 3.10 package universe.
>
> So let me ask a couple of questions to start with:
>
>   1. Which of these versions can be loaded simultaneously?  If they
>   have overlapping class names, then they need to be marked as
>   conflicting, something that is not even supported in package
>   universes right now.
>
>   2. Can you load and save the same packages with all of these?  We
>   need to insure that all packages in the 3.10 package universe can
>   loaded by all Monticello versions that we bless.
>
>
> Lex
>
>
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