On Dec 2, 2011, at 4:54 PM, Tobias Pape wrote:
> Dear all,
>
> afte Fuel being available for both Squeak and Pharo,
> I experimented a little bit.
>
> So, I put a new snapshot.fuel beside the snapshot.bin in
> the mcz zips (same for patch.* in mcd).
>
> But to make it easier in the future to experiment with things,
> I included a small facility to extend serializers/materializers
> or similar things more easily. How is it done?
>
> Example: new serializer in MCZ files:
> After my patch, include
>
> MCMczWriter class>>serializerMine
>
> � � � ^ [:writer :snapshot | writer writeSnapshotAsMyFormat: snapshot]
>
> and
>
> MCMczWriter>>writeSnapshotAsMyFormat: snapshot
>
> � � � self addString: (self doSomeConversion: aSnapshot) at: 'snapshot.myformat'.
>
> as Extension methods in MCMczWriter, and execute
>
> MCMczWriter populateSerializers.
>
> Now, a new file member is added to every new mcz file.
>
> As an example, I have done such thing for Fuel.
> Don't worry, it just uses the default behavior if
> Fuel is not present in either the image or the mcz-file.
>
> Best,
> � � � -Tobias
>
> PS: for Squeak, see Inbox Monticello-topa.491,
> � �And I also have an MCD attached that should help using the code elsewhere.
>
>
>