I have a question for the Cincom Smalltalk (and actually, for the wider Smalltalk) community about version control. "Back in the day", Envy was seen as the gold standard in Smalltalk version control. It's only available for VA now, and it doesn't support distributed development at all well (something which is becoming more prevalent over time). Store supports distributed version control better, but it requires a database (more infrastructure), and only supports Cincom Smalltalk.

There are newer things out there that live in the distributed realm: Monticello for Squeak, git for the Linux community of developers. I have less than no experience with either one, but I do keep my ear to the ground, and I hear good things about them. So the question: what do you think we should do? Should Store move forward? Should we look at things like Monticello and git? Should we do something else entirely?

This isn't a signal that a change is imminent (or event planned), by the way. I think it's useful to step back and look around every so often, and that's what I'm doing here. Feedback can either go in comments here, or in email to me. Thanks!

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