[Cuis-dev] Porting from Pharo

[Gerald Klix]

On 2021-05-01 22:43, Nicolas Cellier via Cuis-dev wrote:
> Has tonel really been conceived as an interchange format? I doubt it.
> The meta-data lies somewhere else at best (git author) or nowhere at
> worse as underlined by Boris
> (the committer is not necessarily the author).
> 
> My understanding is that the chunks were considered horrible for
> reading and reviewing code.
> And the switch to git tools (more specifically github tools, code
> review, merge requests, etc...) did expose the chunks too much.
> Chunks were not designed for human consumption. Pharo (Gemstone) guys
> wanted something looking more like native SmalltalkSounds like a reasonable explanation.
Reason behind their solution for version control, well:
Denn alles was entsteht / Ist werth daß es zu Grunde geht...
> IMO, using tonel for dialect interchange is a poor choice.
Probably yes, put for a one-way port it may be helpful. Anyways it's 
better than no port.

> 
> Le sam. 1 mai 2021 à 22:22, Gerald Klix via Cuis-dev
> <cuis-dev at lists.cuis.st> a écrit :
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Best Regards,

Gerald