Squeak 3.8 status

Marcus Denker denker at iam.unibe.ch
Thu Aug 5 19:11:01 UTC 2004


Am 04.08.2004 um 19:23 schrieb Chris Muller:

>
> Hi Marcus, thanks for engaging a discussion.  The one question I think 
> you did
> not address (because I did not make it explicit enough) is what do you 
> think of
> using an optimistic approach?
>
> I know, I know, this is a scary thought, and I don't know for sure how 
> well it
> would work, but..  when you said
>

I don't think that this would work... at least not as long as we use an 
update-stream.
It's realy easy to destroy the system with an update. We had example of 
faulty updates
that manage to slip into the stream and replacing the changesets on the 
server is of
course possible, but it disrupts everything somehow...

All in all I am sceptic that the "wiki" aproach could work for code. 
Just think about the security
implications... but it would be an interesting thing to think about a 
system that would make
this possible.

      Marcus




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