Thank you Thierry!

I have more questions inline.

On Wed, Jun 29, 2016 at 10:44 AM, Thierry Goubier <thierry.goubier@gmail.com> wrote:

All the Monticello GUI : track down version numbers to order stuff in the lists views everywhere.

So, if we built a new GUI which does not rely on those version numbers maybe we could get rid of that problem, what do you think?

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The Metacello / Gofer stuff (Configurations, Baselines) also use version numbers.

Yes, I understand that they use version numbers, but do they require that version numbers are correlative?��

One of the difficulty of switching will be the cohabitation of number-based systems (smalltalkhub) and SHA-based systems, especially when you do things like copying a version from a git repository to a smalltalkhub repository.

I think that currently it is not possible to copy a number-based package version from smalltalkhub to a metadata-less git repository using git file tree. I mean, you can but the new version will not have the same version number, right?

That's why I suggested to change the ordering relation to a partial order based on the property A is an ancestor of B -> B is before A.

I've lost you there. I agree that it is true that A is an ancestor of B -> B is before A, but the most common problem goes the other way arround, i.e. you want to know if A is ancestor of B and the implication then is not true: B is before A 'does not imply' B is ancestor of A. So I missed your point here.��