Gosh - It actually work quite well to be able to easily browse code online in a more traditional format of seeing an entire class. Hopefully this leads to us being able to share solutions to common language agnostic problems.

One small observation - I quickly grok���d the use of class { ���. } (with the curly braces) - but given that smalltalk methods often have lots of  [ ] (square braces in them), I was a bit surprised to see that method declarations in tonal don���t use { ��� } (curly braces) to denote them, but instead use [ ] - which feels slightly strange given the class declaration above has. {}.

Was it easier to parse this way, or is there some subtlety I missed? I would have been tempted to use  {} for classes and methods and [] for the protocols as this more closely matches what other languages do - and it might actually make it more easily readable for other programmers. Given we have to learn this new format anyway - I���d be prepared to give a nod to what others do���

Possibly this observation comes to late - and maybe there is compelling reason to go the route we have gone - but maybe its worth a quick double check as its an exciting development.

Tim

On 6 Oct 2017, at 18:18, Esteban Lorenzano <estebanlm@gmail.com> 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.

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/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