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Metacello 1.0-beta.29 was released earlier today. This release includes a number of bugfixes and performance improvements.
Features:
- SIGNIFICANT speedup for load/fetch/currentVersion operations. More caching and better algorithms.
- Warn about newer versions in repository. MetacelloToolBox class>>saveModifiedDevelopmentPackages:for:description:.
- MetacelloBrowser support.
- experimental support for branching configurations (mcz level branch)
Bugs fixed:
- fix Issue 108: Need to update Metacello (tests and Gofer config) to integrate changes from Pharo Issue 3660
- fix Issue 112: direct version load (upgrade) of config doesn”t update already loaded mcz files
- fix Issue 115: Invalid method construction by toolbox
- fix Issue 118: dirty package after merge skews currentVersion calculation
- fix Issue 120: lessons methods disapppeared in Metacello-Tutorial-DaleHenrichs.24
- fix Issue 122: misleading error message regarding stable versions
- fix Issue 123: broken development scenario
If you already have an earlier version of Metacello loaded, evaluate the following expression to upgrade to 1.0-beta.29:
ConfigurationOfMetacello project updateProject.
(ConfigurationOfMetacello project version: '1.0-beta.29') load.
Metacello 1.0-beta.29 was tested against:
- PharoCore-1.0
- PharoCore-1.1.2
- PharoCore-1.2.2-12353
- PharoCore-1.3a
- Squeak4.2
- GLASS 1.0beta.8.6
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Norbert Hartl just posted an article entitled Maintaining GemStone disk space:
…this database thingy is not a magic thing after all. It is down-to-earth technology that works beneath. You need to learn about it if you try to do a more serious approach in gemstone maintenance.
If you are serious about running a GemStone-based application, Norbert has good advice.
While you are in the neighborhood, check out Norbert’s Stone Creator utility.
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(gem)Stone Soup 