[squeak-dev] Porting Monticello

Eliot Miranda eliot.miranda at gmail.com
Wed Jul 15 16:38:41 UTC 2009


On Wed, Jul 15, 2009 at 9:18 AM, Lukas Renggli <renggli at gmail.com> wrote:

> > I'm currently considering porting Monticello to Dolphin ... but where to
> > start? Which version is the "latest" one ... where is it hosted?
>

I would also check out MC 1.5 & MC 1.6.  My understanding is that MC 1.5 has
lots of bugs fixed and 1.6 supports atomic loading but both are compatible
with the external format of MC 1.0.


> Unfortunately Monticello 1 is not designed for portability, but
> GemStone and recently also VisualWorks successfully ported Monticello
> to their platform. I suggest that you ask them what was needed and how
> they got started.
>
> > Does it make sense to stick with 1.x or directly proceed to 2.x?
>
> Monticello 1 has become pretty much of a standard in the Smalltalk
> world. Monticello 2 has no users yet. It would certainly be easier to
> port Monticello 2 as it has a separate platform layer.
>
> Lukas
>
> --
> Lukas Renggli
> http://www.lukas-renggli.ch
>
>
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