Back in 2018, I made a first attempt to add Rowan support to smalltalkCI on the smalltalkCI rowan branch. For a number of reasons I never got very far with the effort.

Fresh on the heels of the recent work updating GemStone support for Ubunutu 20.04 and recent macOS versions I am motivated to make another attempt at adding Rowan support to smalltalkCI.

Similar to the original project, I plan to:

• Repackage with an eye to isolating the classes Gofer, MCHttpRepository, MCOrganizationDefinition, Metacello, MetacelloIgnorePackageLoaded, MetacelloProjectRegistration from the Rowan code base.
• The Smalltalk class will be created as a stub class and implement the methods called from smalltalkCI.
• Partition the Monticello specific tests into a separate Monticello test package that would not be loaded for Rowan
• Add Rowan specific classes and scripts
• Write a SCIRowanLoadSpecTest

There are plans to support MetacelloMonticello in the GemStone kernel in some fashion, but the details of that support have not been worked out yet.