Envy or Store or what?

Nevin Pratt nevin at smalltalkpro.com
Mon Oct 28 23:13:44 UTC 2002


Cees de Groot wrote:

>With all respect to the guys behind DVS and CVST: I think it's a dead end. 
>
<...munch...>

>compared
>to "the real thing" like StORE it has some very serious shortcomings which
>makes it unsuitable as the basis for a nice, friendly versioning system for
>a Smalltalk environment. The most serious thing missing is lack of metadata
>versioning, working around is probably just as hard as building something 
>new on top of a decent versioning system.
>  
>

I feel somewhat the same as Cees.

Over the years I've used various "fileout-checkin/checkout-filein" SC 
systems for Smalltalk code, and they all suck compared to "the real 
thing".  I haven't been anxious to try yet another one for Squeak.

If I remember correctly, somebody at Smalltalk Solutions 2001 demo'd a 
Squeak image hooked to a VisualAge image, using the VisualAge/Envy 
engine for the Squeak code.

Or was I imagining that?

Nevin

P.S. I got an error when I sent this the first time, so I sent it again. 
 It might show up twice-- sorry if it does.




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