Posted by Dale Henrichs-3 on Aug 26, 2020; 4:41pm
URL: https://forum.world.st/Git-and-Tonel-and-Magritte-tp5120850p5120896.html

Eliot,

When you repost, could you make sure that you include a description of
where the time stamps are stashed ... I'm assuming that you are adding
it to the method properties (where the category is stashed) as I think
that this is the right place, but it's always best not to guess:)

The current crop of Tonel readers/writers do not necessarily do a good
job of preserving, foreign data (IIRC, the convention is to add a
platform prefix to the property name, which is the same convention used
for class properties ... at GemStone we add a leading `gs_` to our
property names), so until we can get all of the different Tonel
readers/writers to preserve foreign properties (package, class and
method) it will continue to be dicey business for preserving foreign
properties in cross platform projects ...

Monticello does not explicitly preserve foreign properties as the
definitions get created from the native objects, so it takes some
additional work to arrange to preserve foreign properties for packages,
classes, and methods in the objects themselves. So it is worth
considering what you will do with preserving foreign properties from
other platforms.

FWIW, I intend to support the preservation of foreign properties in
Rowan (read that as "I haven't done that yet":)

Finally, Martin McClure has started working on a spec for the next
generation Tonel format ... to add a few missing pieces and tweak the
format to make it possible to continue to evolve the Tonel format into
the future in a somewhat sane way. If there are folks here in the Squeak
community who would like to review, comment and participate in the
creation of the next generation format, send me (or Martin) mail and
we'll get you added to the mailing list.

Dale

On 8/26/20 7:15 AM, Eliot Miranda wrote: