On Nov 14, 2003, at 2:05 AM, stregone at att.net wrote:

> Hi all.
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>
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> I'm the Chief Architect/CTO for a software company and as I mentioned 
> in an
> earlier post, we're starting several new projects.  Some of these 
> projects are
> using Smalltalk (the first time for us, though I've been using it at 
> home for
> years).  The reasons for switching to Smalltalk are various but mainly 
> revolve
> around faster implementation, existing projects/libraries that 
> implement some
> of the functionality we need, and the fact that I tired of our 
> constantly
> breaking procedural Java code.

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> The "problem" is this.  Up until now we've used CVS for code 
> versioning,
> sharing, and back-ups.  CVS works at the "project and class" levels.  
> Now,
> I've looked around a bit at the options available, but unfortunately I 
> won't
> have time to try them all- so I'm hoping to benefit from the experts 
> on this
> list.
>
>

We are transitioning our commercial software house completely over to 
Squeak, and have successfully made the transfer from CVS to Monticello. 
Currently, our legacy products are still in CVS, but all the Squeak 
stuff goes to MC. It works quite well with multiple developers on a 
single project. Also, using categories to your advantage, you can 
partition your applications to minimize any actual method or class 
level conflicts, so merging is breeze.


>
>
> First off, do we have a best pratices page for team development on the 
> wiki?
> We it be of use to anyone if I documented this changeover that we're 
> making as
> a commercial software house?
>

No we don't as others have said, but it would be great to document it. 
I'll even volunteer to help you some as we are doing the same thing.


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> Secondly, it seems to me that perhaps Monticello is the closest thing 
> to CVS
> in the sense that it also operates on the package and class levels?  
> Whereas
> Magma, for example, operates more on the object level.  Or have I
> misunderstood?  I know that this may be the time for a paradigm shift 
> (and I'm
> open to that), but the other developers have not been using Smalltalk 
> and
> they're in for several paradigm shifts as it is.
>

Apples and Oranges, Monticello is what you need, Magma is a generial 
purpose OODB

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> Thanks for any suggestions.
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You're welcome ;)

>
>
> -Brian
>

Brian (Brown)

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> Brian Pagano
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