I don't think that the issue is the file-ness of the subject, but the easiness that other opensource projects enjoy in part because of their tool, even if they aren't as pure in their object-ness as the ones Smalltalk have. As someone said, the UI of Monticello is very, umm, unintiuitive, has bad support for branching, avoiding some effect that the git users (and in particular github has contributed to popularize) that nobody has to ask for permission for modifying some project and then contributing back the changes to the main project. This is notorious difficult with MC/Squeaksource combo when the repo is only read, when the maintainer has to do a not minor effort to track contributions and integrating them back. And of course, the visibility that those tools have is no even in the reach of squeaksource (with those ugly urls that include session data that from time to time appears in mails refering to projects in squeaksource). In that respect git/github no matter if file-based or not are the clear example to emule and even to use for smalltalk open source projects.
Cheers El mié, 20-04-2011 a las 18:00 -0300, Germán Arduino escribió: > 2011/4/20 Dale Henrichs <[email protected]>: > > > > It's just an added dimension of complexity ... not to mention the cost of > > converting existing development processes, tools, artifacts to the new > > system...it took Monticello nearly a decade to become commonly used:) > > > > I think that this is a problem that does need to be solved (along with > > others:) so I'm not claiming that "all is lost, we'll never be file-based" > > I just think it is a tough problem that would have been solved by now, if > > it was easy:) > > > > A thing I not understand is why we need to go "file-based" if we are > already object based (several steps ahead)? > > > > > Until then, long live SqueakSource3 and SmalltalkHub:) > > > > Sure! But, (I'm only asking) we couldn't using Git with objects? It's > only curiosity, not that I would like Git, eheh, I knew Github only > today! > > Germán. > -- Miguel Cobá http://twitter.com/MiguelCobaMtz http://miguel.leugim.com.mx
