Please cut your questions in different threads.
> On 1 Jun 2019, at 11:08, Shaping <shap...@uurda.org> wrote: > > > Ok. > > So Iceberg will not try to wrap other modes of conversion and versioning like > STON > > STON is not for versioning code. > But objects. > > Yes, I know. I was referring to its possible use in moving Smalltalk between > environs. It’s normally used for domain objects, but it could be used to > serialize code itself (just another domain object), if we have no universal > chunk format for Smalltalk. Seems that STON could be managed somehow from > within Iceberg to move class/method definitions, but we also have the > different package- and namespace- structures needing specialization for each > environment. Similar comments apply to unique syntax specializations, like > the period-delimited literal-array evaluables possible in Pharo, but not in > VW, for example. STON under Iceberg might also let us add or strip > class-name prefixes, automatically, when porting between Smalltalks > with/without modules/namespaces, like VW and Pharo, for example. I’m > thinking every Smalltalk would have an Iceberg. It would be the go-to tool > for versioning and conversion of Smalltalk code for any environ. > > For now, I’ll settle for getting Iceberg to work reliably in 7.0.3. Are the > best references on Iceberg the Pharo books or the Iceberg GitHub site? Which > Iceberg material is most up-to-date for Pharo 7.0.3? > > Is anyone reporting stability/VM problems with Pharo installed to a > non-default directory and/or when working with GitHub repos not kept in the > default subfolder of the image folder? My Pharo 3.0.7 install and all repos > are in non-default directories, and I’m wondering whether this is causing the > crashes. > > > >> and Monticello to provide a kind of seamless LCD approach and some backward >> compatibility with Monticello (without encouraging new use of Monticello)? > > No because the distance is too large. We cannot burn our two engineers on > “nice to have” when the “must have” is > not yet done. > Now migrating to iceberg is super easy and configurations are a lot simpler > than with monticello. > > Stef > > > Shaping
