Tx colin

I thought that I was the only been so stupid that we get problems  
with changes in MC crosscutting several packages.

> I think this last point is what Stéphane was talking about. Squeak  
> 3.9 was the first release that tried to do everything  in  
> Monticello rather than using change sets. The big problem that came  
> up was that most changes were spread across many packages. (This is  
> hardly surprising, since the "packages" in the core image are  
> pretty much arbitrary and have lots of entanglements and  
> dependencies).

Exact!

> This meant that any "update" would involve new versions of many  
> packages, which would all have to be downloaded and merged. What  
> used to take minutes now takes hours.

Not only we had to be able to identify all the packages introducing a  
change because something the changes would break.
because of a load order or just a problem. I think that people should  
really try to do something a bit complex with MC that is
not their nicely packaged application but a complex system like  
squeak to get the feel of the problem.
Lot of problems showed up because squeak is not nicely packaged.

Stef