[squeak-dev] Re: Packages, Packages, Packages

Edgar J. De Cleene edgardec2001 at yahoo.com.ar
Sat Dec 12 21:36:34 UTC 2009




On 12/12/09 7:44 PM, "Miguel Cobá" <miguel.coba at gmail.com> wrote:

>> Before writing Mason, I did look into Sake and Bob. Sake doesn't meet one of
>> my core needs, which is that the image being built does *not* need to have
>> the build tool loaded. This provides a lot more flexibility in terms of what
>> can be built, and Sake doesn't provide that.
>> 
>> Colin
>> 
>> 
>> 
> 
> But that is a project decision. The case for pharo, they could simply
> choose to include the packages to load more packages in the core image
> and walk ahead. Isn't necessarily a problem to not have a pristine
> only kernel image. At least in my production servers I can have
> *those* packages installed, the same way that a minimal Debian server
> must have apt-get/aptitude installed in order to be *real* useful.
> In this internet age, is very valuable to download everything with
> just a command in a remote server. If that means to have some more
> packages in the core image, that is ok with me.
> 
> Cheers,
> Miguel Cobá
> http://miguel.leugim.com.mx
> 


I don't know if Mason could do the trick, but as I said in the K era, prefer
Wine with Maria instead Sake and Bob :=)

And Colin have all my faith


Edgar






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