[squeak-dev] a few small quit issues I want to note

K K Subbu kksubbu.ml at gmail.com
Mon Sep 14 15:38:02 UTC 2020


On 14/09/20 5:28 pm, Thiede, Christoph wrote:
>  > Not logging when there is no change sounds reasonable at first blush, 
> but there are also Squeak systems that run a fixed image that don't save 
> on exit -- it may be useful for operators of those systems to be able to 
> know when there were interactions with the system, regardless whether 
> development causing .changes changes was done or not.

Changes file tracks source code *modifications* to an image. Writing 
entries to change log just to detect if an image was run is an overkill, 
particularly when the file is stored in flash memory. There must be 
cheaper ways to log such runs.

Any specific use cases?

Regards .. Subbu


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