updates vs. images

Craig Latta craig at netjam.org
Thu Oct 13 19:26:11 UTC 2005


Hi Michal--

 > ...when you bring non-code objects back into a newer image, the format
 > of these objects may need to change, and that may require a careful
 > series of steps operated on these objects. But that's exactly the kind
 > of problem that Avi's suggestion was designed to avoid, and hence it
 > defeats (part of) the purpose of his proposal. Ie. once you add a
 > solution to patch this, that solution might as well be used for code
 > also.

	Sorry, I don't follow... There's no way to avoid having to mutate 
objects sometimes, right? Or are you saying "don't support migration of 
non-code objects"?


-C

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Craig Latta
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