[squeak-dev] Did we really nailed files?

Frank Shearar frank.shearar at angband.za.org
Fri Apr 8 19:35:54 UTC 2011


On 2011/04/08 19:32, Tony Garnock-Jones wrote:
> Frank Shearar wrote:
>> * Gilad's vision's great and all, but it's not what we have today. We
>> have a world where Smalltalk's been touting images for 30 years... and
>> noone else uses them.
>
> Just a nitpick: *everybody* else uses them. "debootstrap" is the
> SystemTracer of the Linux world. But of course, you're right in that
> nobody is *aware* they're using an "ad hoc, informally-specified,
> bug-ridden, slow implementation of half of" Smalltalk's image facility :-)

Fair point. Sometimes we're even proud of them, and ask for copies of 
each other's VMWare images :)

They're very large chunks of steak^Wstate, and sometimes it's easier to 
digest something cut up a bit.

frank



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