Hi Chris--

> My dream is for a tiny Spoon image to be the starting basis for
> anywhere anyone wants to go.  Everyone gets to be their own dictator,
> and yet the community is held together by publishable / published
> modules (configurations) that allow rich-content images to be built
> with one-click.  Today these images (Dev, Croquet, Squeakland, et al)
> are pre-built.  Tomorrow (I hope) they will be defined as one-click
> loadable (Naiad?) modules loadable into the 10K starting image.

     Sounds great to me. :)  (And yeah, Naiad[1] modules.)

> I think a management piece would be needed to keep track of the
> resulting module explosion.

     The Naiad design features a relay network of module servers that
can provide discovery service.

> More importantly, we need a VM that integrates Spoon with other fine
> projects produced by the community, like Exupery and others..

     Yes.


     thanks,

-C

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