On Sun, 28 Nov 2004 14:15:15 +0100, Bert Freudenberg <bert at impara.de> wrote:

> Yes, we're using it now in a project of that size. MC is quite usable
> now. You might want to make many smaller packages without dependencies,
> otherwise merging is really slow, and you get a lot of useless versions
> even though only the prerequisites changed. Instead, we just load the
> newest version of each package, which works fine in a small team where
> we can immediately sort out any problems.

Yes, that's how I work as well.  It's somewhat telling that the only
packages I know of that use the dependency system extensively,
OmniBrowser and Chuck, are essentially single-developer projects; for
team use, I think my dependency implementation has failed.  It's an
open question as to how to improve it, and patches are certainly
welcome.  Speaking of which:

> I posted a couple of enhancements for supporting this style of work to
> the MC list. In particular, packages are highlighted which have a newer
> version available in the repository.
>         http://mail.wiresong.ca/pipermail/monticello/2004-November/000112.html

Yeah, I'm sorry that I haven't gotten around to integrating these
enhancements yet.  Real Soon Now ;).

Avi