Russell Allen wrote:
> 
> Hi Karl,
> 
> Maybe this is a good time to reach a community agreement on what the
> official plugin images will be, and how often they are updated?
> 
> Although there is (and should be) nothing to stop people who know what
> they are doing from creating their own plugin images, without a standard
> image that the squeaklet developers can rely on the vast majority of
> squeak plugin users having, squeaklets will be either buggy or
> complicated or both.
> 
> My favourite feature would be versioning as part of the standard image
> (including the ability to automatically and transparently update the VM
> when needed), but we can get away with putting a lot of this in the
> squeaklets themselves if we have to.
> 
> However, with a large number different image versions out there, writing
> a squeaklet that runs on them all will be non-trivial!
> 
> I suggest that we
> (a) have an official SqueakPlugin.image
> (b) only update it in step with SqC official releases  (ie ignore alpha
> line).
> 
> What do you think?

Thanks for the answer.
Sounds good, only exeption would be if some serious bug surfaced.
Regarding my questioning I was thinking about doing some testing with 
projects, wich I find really exiting:-)
But it reqires 2.9.
Karl

> 
> In regard to changes:
>         Smalltalk abandonSources
> will compile the temp variable names into the image and abandon changes,
> 
>         Smalltalk abandonTempNames
> will go a step further.  Alternatively, I have packaged images in the
> past by merely doing
>         Preferences disable: #warnIfNoChangesFile.
>         Preferences disable: #warnIfNoSourcesFile.
> 
> I guess it depends whether we think people using the plugin will need
> the source - personally I would like SqueakPlugin.image to be a shrunked
> image but still be with changes and source files (can we shrink them
> too?  Or offload the comments to a website somewhere?)

I think there is an issue with security and therefor only saveing to the
image file is enabled. 

> 
> Cheers,
> 
> Russell
> 
> Karl Ramberg <karl.ramberg at chello.se> wrote:
> > I was trying to make a SqueakPlugin.image from the 2.9a but
> > can't remember all the steps.
> > I have read the different plugin pages but none of them mentions how to
> > abandon the changes and sources files.
> > Karl
> 
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> Russell Allen
> 
> russell.allen at firebirdmedia.com
> 
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