Great work! I am looking forward for the integration.
Doru > On Oct 6, 2017, at 7:18 PM, Esteban Lorenzano <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hi all, > > I released Iceberg version 0.6. It includes a lot of small tweaks and fixes, > but the most important inclusion is tonel file format which aims to replace > file tree. > > What is Tonel? (https://github.com/pharo-vcs/tonel) > Tonel is a file-per-class file format for monticello repositories. It’s > purpose is to reduce the amount of files touched each operation, make the IO > faster an compact the repositories database. > It has also as an objective to offer an “easy-to-read” format, so people > wanting to understand a chunk of code will recognise it easily. > For testing, I migrated several of my projects to Tonel and I’ve been using > it, you can see some as examples: > > https://github.com/estebanlm/MUDClient > https://github.com/estebanlm/pharo-tonel (this was just an example and it has > some minimal errors already fixed) > > We plan to migrate Pharo development to tonel to address some problems we > have: > > - since it has to read/write a lot of files, IO operations are slow > - and even much more slow in Windows > - Windows also has a problem with longpaths. > > Iceberg 0.6 will be integrated to Pharo7 soon :) > To update Pharo 6.1, there are instructions in the readme: > https://github.com/pharo-vcs/iceberg/blob/master/README.md > now, if you wan to migrate your projects to Tonel (from FileTree), here is a > script you can use: > https://github.com/pharo-vcs/tonel/blob/master/MigrateFromFileTree.md > > btw, tonel is independent of Iceberg and can be used with plain Monticello > (but it is a metadaless format, history will reside on git, not on > monticello). > > cheers, > Esteban -- www.tudorgirba.com www.feenk.com "The coherence of a trip is given by the clearness of the goal."
