<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN"><html><head><meta content="text/html;charset=UTF-8" http-equiv="Content-Type"></head><body ><div style='font-size:10pt;font-family:Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;'><br><blockquote style="border-left: 1px solid #0000FF; padding-left: 6px; margin:0 0 0 5px"><div dir="ltr"><div>But if you want to be able to reproduce always the same artefact, this configuration has to be stored somewhere...<br>The Pharo choice is to deliberately store the configuration in image as much as possible, and generate thos configuration files.<br> Beside Pharo config is also about setting specific Pharo icons, about adding more plugins not readily available like Cairo and point to specific version of the cairo library installed by upper level script, etc...<br><br> </div></div> </blockquote><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>Which mirrors Eliot's arguments for storing/generating the vm source in/from Squeak itself. <br></div></div></body></html>