>From my experience with GemStone, it's very important to get a clear
idea of where things are getting evaluated, since the code base (in that
case, even the libraries) can be quite different between your dev and
target images. 

For example, what do your inspection panes do? execute #instVarAt:
remotely, and #printString locally? can be pretty confusing if they're
different. Or maybe #printString is done remotely? then if #printString
is broken on remote, you're screwed.

And then, of course, we're quite used to evaluating things interactively
in the debugger. Where do those get evaluated? locally might be quite
useless for most debugging purposes, but remotely, you don't get to use
potentially richer tools you have locally.

I'm not saying it should do everything - that's the temptation that
might lead to Chaos. I'm saying it should have a clear and simple
policy, so it's clear what it does do, and when.

Another interesting issue is, where are your changes logged? I don't
know if it's particularly useful to have them logged remotely, depending
on how many remotes one has. Having a local copy of all remote changes
would be nice. I don't know if this affects what you're doing much,
though...

Daniel

Jon Hylands <jon at huv.com> wrote:
> 
> Hi everyone,
> 
> As a piece of my AUV software, I'd like to write a remote development/debugging 
> feature that I will use to work on Squeak running on a PDA from a 
> workstation, over a socket connection.
> 
> I'd like to set this up as a SM project, and hopefully do the whole 
> documentation/testing thing along with it.
> 
> I've set up a Swiki page to deal with this at http://minnow.cc.gatech.
> edu/squeak/3079
> 
> I'm basically looking for input from people on what they'd like to 
> see. Please update the Swiki, or reply here and I'll try and summarize 
> things there at an appropriate time.
> 
> Later,
> Jon
> 
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>    Jon Hylands      Jon at huv.com      http://www.huv.com/jon
> 
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