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Some time in 1997 Ian and Blair discussed some changes in the file
format, especially for views. Did anything ever come of this idea?
I would like a way to look into a Smalltalk binary file to see what is
there before loading it into my system. It would also help in figuring
out where to look for any new objects created. Even nicer would be if
for views, at least, the format wasn't binary at all, but a textual
representation of instance variables and their values. One could easily
compare two different versions or even edit a value by hand if, for
example, it wasn't accessible through the view composer.
Has anyone been working on this?
Keith Alcock
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Coping with version changes in our current binary filer can indeed be
particularly irksome. The monster is particularly likely to rise from
the
swamp and bite one when it gets a sniff of an old View resource. A
number
of improvements are possible within the current scheme (of which your
suggestion is a good one), but we are instead considering replacing it
entirely with a different approach, especially for the saving of view
resources. In fact we favour the use of a literal, rather than binary,
filer for resources.
Blair
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