Version Management was:1 day left for Squeak elections!

Wolfgang Helbig helbig at lehre.ba-stuttgart.de
Sat Feb 25 11:28:53 UTC 2006


Andreas Raab <andreas.raab at gmx.de> wrote:
> > Now .cs are not the future. All the good project work with MC (croquet, 
> > sophie, seaside, tweak....
> 
> I'm sorry to disappoint you, but for our next project at VPRI we just 
> pulled out of Monticello. In short, Monticello is a great way of doing 
> things if you have an environment which is based on "builds" (e.g., you 
> basically throw existing content away, build a new system and load that 
> content back in).
> 
> For maintaining a live system Monticello is simply a nightmare. It's 
> slow, it doesn't work in the right way for incremental migrations and 
> you are spending 90% of your time to deal with situations that change 
> sets solve in a nano-second. It's simply not worth the hazzle for 
> maintaining a live system.

What happened to the ST-80 version management from Steve Putz?
(Smalltalk-80: The Interactive Programming Environment, pp. 480-484).

Regards
Wolfgang



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