Jecel Assumpcao Jr wrote:
> Personally, I love that we have a direct line all the way back to
> Smalltalk-74 even through several radical changes in the image format
> and would be sad to lose that for purely nostalgic reasons. In my own
> project I don't have that history but with a Smalltalk machine with
> *the* image taking up all the Flash you really, really don't want to
> start over on each update. One thing that many people specially liked
> about Self (not me, though) was that you could start from an empty image
> at any time and rebuild it from the sources (Slate is currently like
> that too, as is Little Smalltalk). I see the advantages of both sides of
> this issue and would like to see a rational decision.

I like the "lineage" of our images too, and I don't think anyone has 
proposed rebuilding images from scratch. The only difference from 
current practice would be that instead of sending change sets around to 
update everyone's images, the harvesters would just post a complete 
image for people to download.

They'd still contain objects that were created in the mid-seventies. ;-)

Colin