Bijan Parsia <bparsia at email.unc.edu>  wrote...

>I wish to speak for the all encompassing, monolithic image. It's been pretty good to me, and good to Smalltalk (and similar systems).
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>Yes yes yes, shrinking is a pain. Etc. etc. etc. I'm with everyone.
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>But there's something *golden* about having a 4 file install (vm, image, sources, and changes). Wrestingly with VisualWorks packages and paths tends to make me grumpy. Python is way worse. SWI-Prolog (the other system I've been dorking with) is somewhat better, if just because it's less elaborate (at least, my install is).
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>Anything that sends me scurrying to the filesystem makes me want to HOLLER! (And not in joy :))

Bijan -

I'm with you on this.  Regardless of how well we succeed with breaking the image down into modules, I believe we will always want to have both a decomposed and a full-blown image as options for the release.  Folks with big machines who don't care about packages will choose Squeak as it has been for years.  Folks who are doing a headless server or mini PDA app will want the fully factored version, and someone who wants to rework the file system in collaboration with 2 other people in other countries will want this plus a link to some CVS-style database.

But as long as I'm around, we'll have an all-in-one option as part of our release process.

	- Dan
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