On 24 September 2011 20:40, Mariano Martinez Peck <[email protected]> wrote: > > > On Sat, Sep 24, 2011 at 9:34 PM, Frank Shearar <[email protected]> > wrote: >> >> On 24 September 2011 20:01, Mariano Martinez Peck <[email protected]> >> wrote: >> > Well...Martin and I have been working a little bit this week and here is >> > a >> > post explaining it: >> > >> > http://marianopeck.wordpress.com/2011/09/24/importing-and-exporting-packages-with-fuel/ >> >> Cool! >> >> If I understand correctly, Fuel and Monticello (1; I don't know >> anything about 2 other than noone seems to use it but it's much >> better) accomplish two different things though: Fuel's a mechanism to >> quickly load a bunch of stuff, while Monticello's much more >> introspective: mainly, a bunch of definitions of things, with a >> history pointing to previous versions of the package. >> > > Yes. > >> >> I don't see how Fuel could replace Monticello, > > No, Fuel won't replace Monticello at all. They are different things.
Ah, OK. That means I misinterpreted "As you may imagine the idea is that maybe in the future we can replace Monticello’ mcz with Fuel packages." You meant in the sense of an mcz being something you load in your image, not somehow extending Fuel to a version control system (which would ... not make sense :) ). >> then, except in the >> sense of "here's a chunk of stuff you can load into your image" - >> which makes me think that one could simply replace the snapshot.bin >> with a snapshot.fuel (or simply put it in the same directory, for a >> loss in space but a gain in compatibility) and you'd have a much >> faster loading mcz, right? > > Exactly. With Monticello right now you have to compile the sources.st, which > may be slow and even more you need the compiler. The idea is to experiment a > way of using Monticello to directly store binary/already compiled code. > This way, it may be faster for exporting/importing the code. > So....in summary, we will try to experiment to replace only a small part of > Monticello ;) Ah, excellent! I can't wait! >> frank >> >> > Cheers >> > >> > On Fri, Sep 23, 2011 at 12:09 PM, Sven Van Caekenberghe <[email protected]> >> > wrote: >> >> >> >> On 23 Sep 2011, at 11:47, Mariano Martinez Peck wrote: >> >> >> >> > Cool Martin. Now I could do it as well. I have exported the groups >> >> > 'Core', 'Tests' and 'Zinc-Seaside'. >> >> > Then I materialize it a clean image and all tests (1567) are green. >> >> > And >> >> > it only takes 7 seconds :) >> >> >> >> Great ! >> >> >> >> I want to try this myself soon. >> >> >> >> Sven >> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> >> seaside mailing list >> >> [email protected] >> >> http://lists.squeakfoundation.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/seaside >> > >> > >> > >> > -- >> > Mariano >> > http://marianopeck.wordpress.com >> > >> > >> > > > > -- > Mariano > http://marianopeck.wordpress.com > >
