Monticello packaging

Rob Gayvert rtg at rochester.rr.com
Wed Feb 23 00:39:48 UTC 2005


Steven Swerling wrote:

>> Good idea. I should start using Monticello, so I'll give it a try. It 
>> doesn't look hard, so I'll shoot for a SAR file for the general 0.4 
>> release.
>
> Any help you need, send me a note. To get you started:
>  1. Open a monticello browser and hit the +Package button.
>  2. Name the package WxWidgets.
> Now all classes in system categories that are named WxWidgets-* will 
> be part of the package, and all methods that are in other classes 
> (outside the package) will also be included if there message category 
> is named '*wxWidgets'.
>  3. Go to every method you put in Browser, Debugger, etc., and move it 
> to a message category named '*WxWidgets' (case doesn't matter). You 
> might want to go into preferences and enable drag and drop for this task.
>
> After you do all that, open up a monticello browser, select your 
> package, and hit the 'Browse' button. Every time you "save" your 
> package from the Monticello browser, it does a snapshot and keeps 
> track of all the diffs from version to version. No more ChangeSet 
> spelunking.
>
> Once that's done, I can write you a little utility method that bundles 
> up the current monticello snapshot of WxWidgets into a SAR (if you want).

Okay, steps 1-3 were easy, and now I have this nice view of everything 
in a SnapshotBrowser. The classes in *Extensions are slow to browse, but 
other than that it's great. Could you whip up a bundle script for this?



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