On 10/10/10 1:56 PM, Levente Uzonyi wrote:
> On Sun, 10 Oct 2010, askoh wrote:
>
>>
>> Is this a good idea? Aik-Siong Koh
>>
>> Global Smalltalk Image
>> Contains everyone's code.
>> Ideas are never lost.
>> Easy to search everything. (Indexed for fast search).
>> Remove duplications. (Automated as much as possible).
>> Includes all forks all the time.
>> Code growth will slow with size as reuse becomes more and more 
>> effective.
>> Programming becomes more and more high level with high reuse of lower
>> levels.
>> Lower levels becomes more and more optimized, stable and tested.
>> Automated runtime packager to make small application images.
>
> An image with all previous code cannot exist, there are conflicting 
> implementations of a lot of stuff. The code isn't in the image by 
> default.
> A database with full history would be useful. IIRC Marcus Denker had 
> this idea a few years ago.
>
> Here are some problems to solve:
> - one has to find all previous code (it's almost impossible, but the 
> sources/changes files can be found)
> - we don't know the license of all methods
> - the more forks are involved the harder to make it through
> - some forks can have the same method under different method 
> name/method category/class/class category
>
>
> Levente
>
See http://wiki.squeak.org/squeak/5637 and related links and the thread 
I mentioned before.


Lawson