packages, not package systems (was Taking Ownership of Squeak (WAS Re: Python at Disney))
Lex Spoon
lex at cc.gatech.edu
Thu Mar 15 00:57:54 UTC 2001
While a package system would be nice, it doesn't address the bigger
problem that the main release has several intertwined components that
would better be separated. For examples:
- 3D
- Alice
- network clients
- games
- VM generation
Change sets are fine for now. Packages start to win big when there are
a lot of packages and whene the interelations between packages get
complex, but that's not yet the case. (It's a very different stery with
Linux -- I'm extremely happy that Debian's package tools keep track of
my packages for me! I've got 877 packages installed right now, and
often the dependencies are quite complicated!)
-Lex
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