[squeak-dev] [ANN] Monticello 2.0.17

Avi Bryant avi at dabbledb.com
Tue Aug 12 00:12:01 UTC 2008


Hey Colin,

Playing around, the first thing I did (try to save a version of a
Morphic slice) triggered an error.  You can reproduce it easily with:

MDTimestamp fromSqueakMethodStamp: 'di 9/18/97 10:10'

Cheers,
Avi

On Sun, Aug 10, 2008 at 11:27 PM, Colin Putney <cputney at wiresong.ca> wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I'm very happy to announce that Monticello 2.0 is ready for download. This
> is a ground-up rewrite, using a new, more flexible and more performant
> versioning engine.
>
> http://www.wiresong.ca/static/releases/Monticello-current.zip
>
> A note about versioning numbers. In an effort to make releases easier to
> understand, I'm adopting a new scheme of version numbers for releases.
> They'll each have a major, a minor and a release number. Major numbers will
> be incremented only for major architectural changes or significant
> incompatibility with prior versions. Minor numbers will be incremented for
> significant new features, while release numbers will be incremented for
> *any* change to the code or documentation.
>
> This version, 2.0.17, is the first version of the 2.0 code base that I feel
> is ready for general use, though I've been using it for production code on
> several projects for several months now, and the basic versioning engine has
> been stable for quite some time. Version 2.0.17 has only been tested on
> Squeak 3.10, but I hope to add support for earlier versions of Squeak soon.
>
> Although MC 2.0 is stable and useful, there's one important feature that is
> still missing: a network enabled repository. The architectural differences
> between 1.x and 2.0 mean that the HTTP- and FTP-based repositories used with
> MC 1.x don't work well with 2.0. I'm planning to implement remote
> repositories in Monticello 2.1.
>
> As always, feedback is welcome. One thing I've learned in using MC 2 is that
> it's quite different than MC 1 and it takes a while to get used to it - even
> for me. This milestone has been a long time coming, and I'm glad to finally
> reach it, but it's really just the beginning. I'm looking forward to seeing
> what becomes of it.
>
> Colin
>
>



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