Anthony Hannan wrote:

>goran.krampe at bluefish.se wrote:
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>>Doug Way <dway at riskmetrics.com> wrote:
>>[SNIP]
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>>>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.
>>It was only the lucky few apps that got into the image that have been
>>saved from the code rot.
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>
>Well, that's the problem.  All of these packages should be in the image.
> And if we had proper modules they could be.  Finally, if we had
>distribution capabilities the image can grow very large without it being
>a problem.  We should not try to solve the growth problem by trying to
>keep things out.  We should solve it using database/distributed
>technology.
>
>Cheers,
>Anthony
>

Well, that's the problem.  We don't have a Squeak that has proper 
modules based on a distributed database technology.  I think most people 
understand what you're saying and I'm sure everyone will gladly cast 
this stuff aside when something better gets implemented.

- Stephen