This sounds great.  I'll give it a whirl.

- Stephen

> -----Original Message-----
> From: squeak-dev-admin at lists.squeakfoundation.org
> [mailto:squeak-dev-admin at lists.squeakfoundation.org]On Behalf Of Avi
> Bryant
> Sent: Wednesday, November 20, 2002 6:24 PM
> To: squeak-dev at lists.squeakfoundation.org
> Subject: RE: Why is YAXO in the stream?
>
>
>
> On Wed, 20 Nov 2002, Stephen Pair wrote:
>
> > I saw some mention of it somewhere...I'm just speaking in terms of DVS
> > because it's what's available right now on the only concrete
> thing I from
> > which to contemplate enhancements.  VersionNumber is on SqueakMap now.
> > Could you describe how it abandons the chunk file format?
>
> Monticello stores package versions just as serialized smalltalk objects -
> basically, a PackageVersion object has a version number and a set of
> Declaration objects, which can be instances of MethodDeclaration (class
> name + selector + source) or ClassDeclaration (name + superclass name +
> definition source).  PackageVersions know how to produce patches between
> themselves and other PackageVersions, how to load themselves into the
> image, how to create themselves from packages in the image, how to merge
> with other PackageVersions, etc.  Currently this functionality is used to
> build a simple CVS-like system, but one that never has to involve text
> files.
>
> You can still use PackageInfo to export a package to a .st file for
> distribution, of course.  But it vastly simplifies building a versioning
> system if you're not having to parse/print chunk format all the time.
>
> See http://beta4.com/squeak/aubergines/docs/monticello.html if you want to
> play aroun with it.
>
> (Oddly, since I posted that yesterday, not a single person has tried out
> the public repository...)
>
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