On 25.07.2006, at 08:46, Marcus Denker wrote:
I believe a great deal of code will rot and squeak will become a lot more fragile than it already is if you compress sources now in the process of finalizing 3.9.
To make one thing clear: I do understand that code history is *extremely* important. And I do know that we need even more than a simple per-method history can do.
At SCG, we actually do research into analyzing history of code... so be assured that we understand why it's needed, that it is needed, and that without a past there will be no future.
But: Right know the code-history of Squeak is not scalable enough to provide a history for the whole system, and we need to balance between what is possible easily now and what is needed for the future.
Marcus