Christoph Thiede

Alright, but it really might take me a few months :)

Would it be possible to read the credentials from a file named `squot.env` or something like this which is looked up in `FileDirectory default`? This would also save me the...

> Possible, sure. Secure, not so much. That's why I would not like to code it. ;-) You could add some sight protection by applying some symmetric encryption with a...

Some idea: TIL about the `ExternalSettings` mechanism in Squeak which already provides easy access to arbitrary configurations files in a folder named `prefs` next to your image file. In theory,...

But now you could put the extension methods into the right compatibility package, couldn't you? Wouldn't this allow for clearer tracking of the origin of these overrides? Same for https://github.com/hpi-swa/Squot/commit/21e866477a037df3577c5737bc4fae2e7f9a2908#diff-e8aa5f417f3a14ad795b10c7c80746624d2c2a785cd04e3f5d5feab8b698cfe.

So gave this a try, but I had to find out that all this Metacello-/preamble-related stuff is much more complex than I would have assumed. I wrote a small class...

PS: Turns out there is already an existing SARBuilder package on SqueakMap. We probably don't need to reinvent the wheel ...

I did encounter one, but that was weeks ago and I don't remember what it was ... I will report back when the issue occurs again. :-)

> Especially the latter two points would consume quite an amount of screen real estate, and the branch list is rather narrow by default today. It might require another tool...

Exactly! :-) Last comment: > an indication that there are any commits that the upstream branch (if any!) does not have, and in the tooltip how many commits these are....