[squeak-dev] Re: [Release] The role of Bob, Installer & Co.

David T. Lewis lewis at mail.msen.com
Sun Jul 5 16:36:40 UTC 2009


On Sun, Jul 05, 2009 at 07:46:14AM -0700, Andreas Raab wrote:
> Keith Hodges wrote:
> 
> >The image will probably be a bit unstable for a bit, but we cant go to
> >the extent of breaking it ever, because we are not distibuting a new
> >image, just updates, everything must continue to work seamlessly.
> 
> Not necessarily. If there is a need to distribute a new image, we can 
> certainly do that. I'm just not in favor of requiring a new image any 
> time you want to do anything.

I want to mention that from the point of view of someone who maintains
external packages, it is *hugely* helpful to me to have the update
stream in addition to complete images. I've been maintaining some of
these packages for a long time, so I speak from experience and it
matters a lot to me.

Dave




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