On Tue, Mar 18, 2014 at 2:47 PM, Eliot Miranda <eliot.miranda at gmail.com> wrote:
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> On Mon, Mar 17, 2014 at 8:28 AM, Chris Muller <ma.chris.m at gmail.com> wrote:
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>> I don't know whether its possible to generate a .sources file that
>> would contain full history,
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> _yes it is_.  The only issue in preserving history is in pruning branches.
> There is no point preserving versions that are not ancestors of current
> versions.  And that's an easy process.  I have code that does this and
> Camillo just rewrote source condensing for Pharo and claims its much more
> comprehensible, so taking his code and getting it to preserve history while
> pruning could be another route.

How does your or Camillo's code work?  How could it possibly know what
version of, say, Dictionary>>#at:put: was released to official Squeak
2.8?  Are you parsing into some cold 2.8 image file from a 4.5 image?

Even if you could identify all the CM's you still don't have the
source for them.  You'd have to then go looking into the cold image
file, identify which .sources file its using, find the source-pointer
for that method, THEN go into that sources file to extract it..

I just don't believe you or Camillo are attempting something this
crazy -- hell just setting up all the images and sources would be a
major pain.  But I see no other way to accomplish what Hannes was
referring to as "full history".  Tell me how it works, show me the
code and how to use it, else I call bull-shit.  ;)