New source code subsystem

Michael Rueger m.rueger at acm.org
Thu Jul 27 09:28:22 UTC 2006


Marcus Denker wrote:

>  - source offset in a property, not at the end of the bytecode. Use an 
> Integer , so we get indefinite size of .source and .changens --
>    One Problem Solved.

in a smalltalk system far away a full object was used for pointing to 
the source. That object would normally be a source and file index, 
allowing for unlimited number of source files. That was used in the 
AppMan package that kept the package specific source in package source 
files. So installing a package did not add any entries to the changes file.
But, that source object could also be an object answering the compressed 
source, a repository access or whatever smart way you could come up with.

Michael




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