Against package removal

Martin Wirblat sql.mawi at t-link.de
Fri May 9 09:59:05 UTC 2003


Göran, this is not false, it is true. That is why we have the inner 
circle, the release in which everything is expected to work together 
now and in future, and the outer circle, where packages have to be 
understood as effectively being more isolated. 

regards,
Martin

goran.krampe at bluefish.se wrote on 08.05.2003 22:10:27:
>
>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. 
>
>It was only the lucky few apps that got into the image that have been
>saved from the code rot.
>
>regards, Göran




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