On Sat, Jun 28, 2008 at 12:00 PM, Damien Pollet damien.pollet@gmail.com wrote:
So basically, either users duplicate the integration work for combinations of packages not prepared before, or they publish their combination for others to reuse, resulting in as many new specialized combination packages ?
First, this kinda defeats the purpose of a package system to me, and second, what difference does that make w.r.t MC configurations?
I am by no means a version-integration expert, but Colin Putney gave a nice presentation on Monticello 2 at Smalltalk Solutions. I believe his words were something like, "If you take one thing away from this presentation, remember that the success of a packaging system is based on how well it can MERGE." (Complete with a big, yellow, traffic merge sign).
Unfortunately, his slides are not yet available at:
http://www.stic.st/stic?content=sts08Detail#june21Detail
However, he demonstrated some of the abilities of Monticello 2 based on what he called a "much simpler" merging (versioning?) methodology.
I'm sure I messed something up in translation, but what he said made sense to me and might be worth bringing into the discussion if possible.
Rob