On Fri, Mar 29, 2013 at 3:51 PM, Chris <cpmbailey@btinternet.com> wrote:

This is great news!

I think Monticello running on top of Fuel should be a big priority for 3.0. I think some of the recent comments about git are quite valid, and one of the bigger barriers to people coming to Smalltalk recently. It would probably bring me back from using FileTree and external version control.

Hi Chris,�

Yes...�

Last year I worked as Google Summer of Code student in a prototype that was called Tanker [1], which uses Fuel to export and import code. To load, it materializes the class, traits, methods definitions, and bypass the compiler to create them. But it is still a prototype that more work. Monticello has it's own small binary serializer and that's not the main bottleneck while loading code. Also currently it's not the main issue to whether compile or not. In 3.0 it's planned to have a new compiler and a new way to store the image's code. So I'd wait to have that features integrated, and then decide what to do. �

[1]:�http://rmod.lille.inria.fr/web/pier/software/Tanker

Cheers,

Martin