Testing & Veification of Packages (was RE: Image factoring)

danielv at netvision.net.il danielv at netvision.net.il
Wed Nov 13 18:43:37 UTC 2002


As soon as Goran has configurations working in SM, the race begins. 

If the community provides a few varied, high quality, fully loaded image
configurations, there's little need to have an "official" one.

What happens, we'll see...

Daniel

cg at cdegroot.com (Cees de Groot) wrote:
> So, I vote for 'the board' (the Mouseketeers, duh) to distribute a strictly
> minimal 'blessed' image (say like VisualWorks: base plus basic development
> tools), and leave the rest up to the dynamics of the market. I think that past
> events have shown that it works - after a couple of tries and bad starts, SM
> suddenly got mindshare and therefore the lead. It's probably way better now
> than whatever we could have come up with in a design-by-committee process.
> 
> (*) whether commercial or not, it still is a marketplace...
> 
> -- 
> Cees de Groot               http://www.cdegroot.com     <cg at cdegroot.com>
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