modules on CD (was: full isolation)

[Lex Spoon]

I feel like such a grunt reading some of these threads.  I don't want to
interfere with any of the beautiful ideas flying around, but please
notice that there are simple "hammer the nail in, already" solutions to
distributing packages to people not on the 'net.  The Stable 3.7
Universe is one such example: if you unzip Squeak3.7u1.zip onto a
CD-ROM, you are done.  Additionally, look to almost any Linux
distribution to see how they do it.

The decision about what goes on the CD, is less elegant than the ideas
being tossed around.  In the universes example, the CD easily holds
everything.  (If you think that all the Squeak code in the world takes
more than one CD, well...  ahem.  Don't worry!)  Linux distributions
have to pick and choose what goes on the initial CD, and there is
sometimes work to break dependencies or provide simpler alternatives of
common programs, in order to fit a good set of things on that important
first CD.

That said, please carry on.  :)

Lex