Smaller mcd

On Thu, Mar 05, 2020 at 10:34:52PM +0100, Nicolas Cellier wrote:
>  Hi all,
> While reviewing some contributions, I saw this: Monticello-mva.667
>
> http://lists.squeakfoundation.org/pipermail/squeak-dev/2017-April/194057.html
>
> Browse the whole thread, it's interesting.
> How can we finish the job and make it happen?

Nicolas,

Thank you for reviving this thread. It is a very worthwhile proposal
and it is sad to think that we let it drop for so long. Milan Vavra
clearly put a lot of thought into this, and in the earlier discussion,
Bert gave the concept a nod of approval too.

If I understand the discussion correctly, there are a couple of potential
issues that may need to be addressed concerning possible impact of
source.squeak.org and squeaksource.com and ss3, but I'm sure we can
follow up on those issues. Aside from that, there seems to be no reason
that this cannot be tested, reviewed, and moved into trunk.

I am saying this without haviing actually tested it myself, but it
really does look like a good idea, and we should find a way to make
it happen.

On Thu, Mar 5, 2020 at 4:28 PM David T. Lewis <[hidden email]> wrote:

On Thu, Mar 05, 2020 at 10:34:52PM +0100, Nicolas Cellier wrote:
>  Hi all,
> While reviewing some contributions, I saw this: Monticello-mva.667
>
> http://lists.squeakfoundation.org/pipermail/squeak-dev/2017-April/194057.html
>
> Browse the whole thread, it's interesting.
> How can we finish the job and make it happen?

Nicolas,

Thank you for reviving this thread. It is a very worthwhile proposal
and it is sad to think that we let it drop for so long. Milan Vavra
clearly put a lot of thought into this, and in the earlier discussion,
Bert gave the concept a nod of approval too.

If I understand the discussion correctly, there are a couple of potential
issues that may need to be addressed concerning possible impact of
source.squeak.org and squeaksource.com and ss3, but I'm sure we can
follow up on those issues. Aside from that, there seems to be no reason
that this cannot be tested, reviewed, and moved into trunk.

I am saying this without haviing actually tested it myself, but it
really does look like a good idea, and we should find a way to make
it happen.

Agreed, this looks worthwhile doing. 

The tricky part is the diffs generated by the server. We would need some extended naming scheme to indicate that the MC client is able to handle the pruned histories.

- Bert -