Dear all,
afte Fuel being available for both Squeak and Pharo,
I experimented a little bit.
So, I put a new snapshot.fuel beside the snapshot.bin in
the mcz zips (same for patch.* in mcd).
But to make it easier in the future to experiment with things,
I included a small facility to extend serializers/materializers
or similar things more easily. How is it done?
Example: new serializer in MCZ files:
After my patch, include
MCMczWriter class>>serializerMine
^ [:writer :snapshot | writer writeSnapshotAsMyFormat: snapshot]
and
MCMczWriter>>writeSnapshotAsMyFormat: snapshot
self addString: (self doSomeConversion: aSnapshot) at: 'snapshot.myformat'.
as Extension methods in MCMczWriter, and execute
MCMczWriter populateSerializers.
Now, a new file member is added to every new mcz file.
As an example, I have done such thing for Fuel.
Don't worry, it just uses the default behavior if
Fuel is not present in either the image or the mcz-file.
Best,
-Tobias
PS: for Squeak, see Inbox Monticello-topa.491,
And I also have an MCD attached that should help using the code elsewhere.