Time to condense sources?

Ned Konz ned at bike-nomad.com
Wed Sep 17 15:56:25 UTC 2003


On Wednesday 17 September 2003 08:30 am, Lex Spoon wrote:
> However, many Squeak users aren't developing Squeak itself, and
> don't care about the history.  It would be nice if the minor stable
> releases started having small changes files.  It would roughly
> double the amount of images you can have in the same amount of disk
> space, and it would similarly decrease the amount of time it takes
> to ftp images around.
>
> Anyway, it already sucks that history is lost from before 3.0,
> unless you want to load a 2.9 image.  We really need a better
> history mechanism at some point, anyway....

We could also supply a corresponding "deep history" changes file for 
those interested in going back. I believe Doug has supplied one of 
these; I've made them by keeping a local updates server directory and 
loading them all into an older image (I believe that I started with a 
2.8 or 2.9 image).

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