On Mar 26, 2004, at 1:32 PM, Michael Rueger wrote:

> Doug Way wrote:
>
>> Or, we could use the occasion of having 4.0 be the next release to go 
>> for whatever VM overhaul needs to be done (if any), and have the 
>> image format change in this next release.
>
> I strongly vote for this option.

This is definitely something we should to do in the near future. 
Changing the image format would also give us quite a bit more 
flexibility with regard to the storage of source code (ie, we could 
change more than just the encoding) so it might make sense to do this 
along with the m17n stuff.

However, peering into the future a bit, I imagine that taking advantage 
of Exupery would also require image format changes of one kind or 
another (eg, I'd love to see a class called NativeMethod). So some 
questions are in order: Do we want to try to avoid two image format 
changes in a short amount of time? Will Exupery require or benefit from 
an image format change? Is Exupery progressing quickly enough that this 
is even an issue?

Bryce?

Colin