[Newbies] Changesets, Monticello and SqueakMap

[Norbert Hartl]

Hi,

at the moment I try to figure out how the three configuration 
management approaches fit together. After switching to Monticello 
I found my life a lot easier :) Monticello is of great help!

Then I noticed that changesets are named after the Monticello 
package that was last imported. I'm not quite sure if changesets 
have any benefit if someone is using monticello.

Then there is squeakmap. Squeakmap seems to be the official 
release server. Is squeakmap tied to a special format? Can 
squeakmap use monticello  packages as well? I'm asking because I 
had problems to find any version information on squeakmap (beside
the squeakmap version).

While reading the squeak lists it appeared to me that a lot of 
you are developing with monticello and releasing on squeakmap. But 
I didn't find any information about the source (e.g. monticello 
version) version. 

I think it would be great to install a release from squeakmap and 
having the opportunity to open monticello and see which newer 
versions (and most important what changes) have been made. The 
squeakmap packages could also add their repository to monticello 
when they are installed.

The only reason against it I can imagine is that this would introduce
dependencies which aren't wanted.

Norbert