Hi! Keith Hodges wrote:
Also with DeltaStreams integration with Installer, we might have the ability to load into a "Delta/SystemEditor" rather than actually in to the image.
Ah! There's my queue! :) Yes, although I only read casually what you are talking about I do agree with the general notions expressed. And yes, hopefully we will soon have Deltas in a useful form. Quick status again, followed with some questions: - Lots of tests are now green, still lots of tests not green but most of them are "wishful thinking"-tests and not really broken tests. - I am refactoring and cleaning right now, as a pre-cursor to adding the new file format. - I am also just beginning to try out Tirade as a file format. For more info on Tirade, see my first article: http://goran.krampe.se/blog/Squeak/Tirade.rdoc So in a relatively short timeperiod I hope we have code to load and save Deltas as xxx.d (Delta Tirade format) and xxx.dgz (Gzipped). Would these two file extensions work? Or should we use convention *.d and *.d.gz? Next step IMHO is to write a Dual Change Sorter-ish tool for Deltas - I would also like to hear advice on how to build that in order to: - Be compatible with as many Squeak forks as possible. - Get a clean nice simple tool. Just copy plain dual change sorter? Use Toolbuilder? Use MC codebase? Omnibase? The end goal would be to fully replace Dual Change Sorter - which means that I would also like to have some support for loading a cs as a Delta and to save a Delta as a plain cs. ...and as always, if you like to join us in moving Deltastreams forward, just holler! regards, Göran