[Newbies] How do I diff two images?

[Clinton Blackmore]

I can install a library and start communicating over sockets with one line
of code?!  That's incredible.

[Incidentally, as a system administrator, I did ask about diffing two
filesystems: http://serverfault.com/questions/10424/diffing-two-filesystems.
 (grin)]

Clinton

On Sat, May 22, 2010 at 7:59 AM, David Mitchell <david.mitchell at gmail.com>wrote:

> People have certainly built tools that do image archeology but they
> have tended to be more academic than practical.
>
> Outside of Squeak, imagine writing a tool to look at two WMware VMDK
> files onto which two different people had installed Windows, Firefox,
> and various other tools. It might be theoretically possible to write a
> program that would look at two VMDKs and tell you about the different
> versions of programs that are installed, but it is practically very
> difficult. It would be much easier to start both machines on the
> network and have them inventory their programs and then compare.
>
> If you are interested in having two (running) Squeaks talk to one
> another, you might want to look at Magma. Magma can store just about
> any Squeak object in an object database that multiple Squeaks can
> connect.
>
> Magma's remote framework can be used outside of Magma. It is available
> as "Ma client server" See this page for details and usage:
>
> http://wiki.squeak.org/squeak/2978
>
> On Sat, May 22, 2010 at 8:24 AM, Clinton Blackmore
> <clinton.blackmore at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Yes, I suppose an image is a virtual machine suspended in time.  I hadn't
> > even considered comparing things other than the source code.
> > I'd wondered about filing everything out.  That sounds like the way to
> go.
> >  Having the two images talk to each other and run comparisons also sounds
> > very interesting -- but sounds rather difficult (although, perhaps it is
> not
> > and it is just my lack of understanding of squeak that makes it seem so).
> > Clinton
> >
> > On Sat, May 22, 2010 at 4:07 AM, Mateusz Grotek <
> unoduetre at poczta.onet.pl>
> > wrote:
> >>
> >> If you want to compare source code only, you can file it out. You could
> >> also write some code in both images, and ask them to do comparisons (use
> >> sockets of fifos, or similar mechanisms for IPC).
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