Against package removal

Doug Way dway at riskmetrics.com
Thu May 8 22:08:04 UTC 2003


goran.krampe at bluefish.se wrote:
> 
> Doug Way <dway at riskmetrics.com> wrote:
> [SNIP]
> > There will still always be the "Full" image concept, though, with all of the
> > development and media content of the traditional Squeak image.  I agree that
> > we do need to make the Full image content easily available to everyone, so
> > that we can do all that good stuff like finding all senders/implementors.
> 
> Just want to reiterate that this is false. You can not possibly find all
> senders and implementors just by using the current Full image. There are
> over 230 packages on SM right now. This means there are TONS of code
> outside of the image as we speak. And that is how it always has been.

Well, yeah.  I could have phrased this as "... good stuff like finding all
senders/implementors for things that happen to be in the Full image." :-)

- Doug Way



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