[squeak-dev] Re: The Inbox: Monticello-mt.633.mcz

Chris Muller asqueaker at gmail.com
Sat May 14 20:00:49 UTC 2016


Relative paths are already supported by underlying FileDirectory, so I
don't see why we should need a new MC repository type for that.

I'm not clear exactly what you want to do..


On Sat, May 14, 2016 at 9:42 AM, David T. Lewis <lewis at mail.msen.com> wrote:
> On Fri, May 13, 2016 at 11:43:22PM -0700, marcel.taeumel wrote:
>> Hi, there.
>>
>> Any thoughts on this?
>>
>> Such relative-path repositories can, for example, be used in all-in-one (or
>> similar) bundles. Right now, we cannot move the VM to another place and
>> expect directory repositories to keep on working if those are kept close to
>> the VM path.
>>
>> Note that this rather affects an offline scenario.
>>
>
> This seems like a reasonable thing to do, and if it helps with packaging
> an all-in-one, then it would be good to have it in trunk.
>
> I note that MCRelativeDirectoryRepository has a class comment (thank you)
> but most of the other repository types do not. If anyone feels motivated
> to add comments to the other classes, that would be a good thing :-)
>
> Dave
>
>


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