Isn’t tonel an open format? Would this not encourage other dialects to adopt it as well? The sooner the better?
We know that filetree wasn’t really a great idea as a format (as Windows issues show). I’d say in this case move to it and let’s move forward. Hopefully all together. Tim Sent from my iPhone > On 14 Feb 2019, at 18:43, Sven Van Caekenberghe <s...@stfx.eu> wrote: > > > >> On 14 Feb 2019, at 19:02, Torsten Bergmann <asta...@gmx.de> wrote: >> >> Hi, >> >> but Tonel allows to use the package also on Windows platform as Tonel is >> more compact. Otherwise we will run into long filename git >> trouble again. This would limit it's use. >> >> A filetree/cypress might make sense for other dialects - but due to the >> above would it be possibly to have these formats >> as a separate branch and keep the master in Tonel? > > Sure, there is a reason for Tonel, it *is* better, but in this case it might > not be the best choice. > >> I know this makes it harder in maintaining - but I'm not sure the XML >> packages changes so often. > > No, I don't think they do. > >> @Sven: thank for taking action. Can we have a link in the README pointing >> also to the original STHub Repo? > > I did. > >> Maybe we should move the canonical project to the more central >> https://github.com/pharo-contributions like it was >> done with other repos and add Sven (and others interested) to this team. > > Once somebody tries to do a real conversion with history. > >> Thanks >> T. >> >> >>> Gesendet: Donnerstag, 14. Februar 2019 um 18:08 Uhr >>> Von: "Paul DeBruicker" <pdebr...@gmail.com> >>> An: pharo-users@lists.pharo.org >>> Betreff: Re: [Pharo-users] Status of XML Support's move to GitHub >>> >>> Hi Sven, >>> >>> Can we use filetree/cypress for this for now? IF the intention is for your >>> copy to become the canonical github one at least. Squeak and GemStone >>> don't yet have tonel and the smalltalkhub/PharoExtras repo is where code is >>> currently loaded from for those platforms. >>> >>> >>> Thanks for giving it some thought. >>> >>> Paul >>> >>> >>> >>> Sven Van Caekenberghe-2 wrote >>>> Hi again, >>>> >>>>> On 10 Jan 2019, at 16:31, Sven Van Caekenberghe < >>> >>>> sven@ >>> >>>>> wrote: >>>>> >>>>> Hi, >>>>> >>>>> What is the status of XML Support's move to GitHub ? >>>>> Many people were pro, has anything been done ? >>>>> It would be very nice. >>>>> >>>>> Sven >>>> >>>> I did https://github.com/svenvc/XML-Support-Pharo as a direct copy of the >>>> code from SmalltalkHub to GitHub, Tonel, Pharo and Travis CI. >>>> >>>> This is just the bare minimum, a proof of concept, with new, much >>>> simplified baselines. It was the last project that I depend on and I >>>> wanted it in GitHub for my own purposes. The default load of XMLParser >>>> includes XMLWriter, the tests and the GT extensions. >>>> >>>> All 5100+ tests are green. I am using Pharo 7.0.1 64-bit. Code seems to >>>> load reasonably fast. >>>> >>>> I want to stress that this is not a fork, nor the end of this conversion. >>>> >>>> I have a lot of respect for this high quality, solid code base and want >>>> this important piece of code to move forward. >>>> >>>> I hope others will help. >>>> >>>> Sven >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> -- >>> Sent from: http://forum.world.st/Pharo-Smalltalk-Users-f1310670.html >>> >>> >> > >
