At 08:58 PM 8/16/2001 -0400, Bijan Parsia wrote:

>I wish to speak for the all encompassing, monolithic image. It's been 
>pretty good to me, and good to Smalltalk (and similar systems).
>
>Yes yes yes, shrinking is a pain. Etc. etc. etc. I'm with everyone.
>
>But there's something *golden* about having a 4 file install (vm, image, 
>sources, and changes). Wrestingly with VisualWorks packages and paths 
>tends to make me grumpy. Python is way worse. SWI-Prolog (the other system 
>I've been dorking with) is somewhat better, if just because it's less 
>elaborate (at least, my install is).
>...
>Cheers,
>Bijan Parsia.

Just to clarify, I wasn't talking about physical deployment structure.  I 
also like single file deployment.  There nothing as convenient as a 
self-contained exe.

What I was saying, it the in some situations, tightly bound modular source 
code structuring is the right solution. In other situations, loosely bound 
highly encapsulated components (think objects without inheritance) work 
better.  In either case, where the situation warrants it, you should be 
able to create a self contained deployable application.

Allen