[squeak-dev] [ANN] Monticello 2.0.20

Philippe Marschall philippe.marschall at gmail.com
Thu Aug 14 11:21:19 UTC 2008


2008/8/14 Norbert Hartl <norbert at hartl.name>:
> On Wed, 2008-08-13 at 16:26 -0700, Avi Bryant wrote:
>> On Wed, Aug 13, 2008 at 1:29 AM, Lukas Renggli <renggli at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> > I am would like to see some documentation on how to migrate from the
>> > old Monticello. Also I am eagerly awaiting the network repositories.
>>
>> Here's a strategy that I think would work to allow networked
>> collaboration with MC2 in its current state.  Colin, let me know if
>> I'm making any faulty assumptions here or misremembering how MC2
>> works.
>>
>> 1. For your project, create a separate file repository for each
>> developer.  So, Lukas, if you, Colin and I were all collaborating on
>> something, we would have lr.mcr, avi.mcr, and cwp.mcr.
>> 2. Set up a script which rsyncs these three files to a shared
>> location.  Each developer should have this script set up to *upload*
>> their own mcr and to *download* everyone else's.
>> 3. Commit to your own repository (I would commit to avi.mcr), and then
>> run the script.  Or, have a cron job which runs it every few minutes.
>>
>> Since the project has all three repos added, everyone's versions
>> should show up together in the UI.  Since each developer is only
>> modifying his own file, there shouldn't be any conflicts at the file
>> level.  Since the .mcr files are always only appended to, rsync should
>> be able to update them quite efficiently (right?).  And although there
>> would be some duplication (each developer's repo would contain its own
>> copy of most of the method versions), it would be O(developers) not
>> O(versions) as MC1 is.
>>
>> Thoughts?
>
> We do a similar setup with MC1. I did it because there was no easy
> ssl support for http repositores.

http://www.squeaksource.com/monticellossl.html

Cheers
Philippe



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