On Mar 20, 2008, at 14:09 , Philippe Marschall wrote:
>
> Is it corrent that the new versions browser:
> http://www.squeaksource.com/VersionsBrowser2.html
> is missing?
>
> Cheers
> Philippe
>

Hi Phillippe  et al.

The latest version of the VersionBrowser (1.0) is available via the  
Package Universe Browser under the "Code Browsing" category.  It is  
also available on SqueakSource at:

	http://www.squeaksource.com/Archaeology.html
	
I cleaned up the repository so it is easier to understand.  However,  
the version that is there doesn't provide any obvious new  
functionality.  It is simply a refactored version that provides the  
hooks for enabling the VersionsBrowser to read a single composite of  
archive of all official Squeak methods that have been published.   
After getting feedback from a number of people offline at the end of  
last year, I realized that I needed to approach the problem in new  
fashion.

It has only been in the past few weeks that I have been able to focus  
again on the work at all.  Only since March have my wife and I have  
begun to emerge from the sleep deprivation fog of new  
parenthood. :-)  (Jerome, anyone who can write good code under the  
influence of new baby is a better person than I -- however, I hope  
they are not building avionics! :-p)

The current version has been refactored with good test coverage and  
is devoid of any dependencies on tricky and ugly Squeak legacy code  
-- i.e. core code that we all depend on but are either afraid to  
modify, or afraid to use after someone has "improved" it.  As a  
research project we have been looking at ways to do archaeology on  
Squeak code, and seeing what can be discovered by investigating the  
codebase of 10+ years of code evolution.  More to follow ...

-Maurice