Tim Rowledge wrote :

> The compiler is only in the image. It is completely unsuited for
> conversion via the CCodeGenreator.

    Joseph Pelrine came up with a simple yet powerful and a-la-mode
solution: Web Service.

    John M McIntosh reported from Camp Smalltalk Essen ESUG 2001:

"Did I mention the morning started late? So lunch is where all thirty plus
of us endured poor service at an Italian German restaurant, however I had
some interesting discussions with Joseph about tethered Smalltalk images.
His vision is to have a very small basic image that supports only the
kernel, and the socket layer. By talking to a fully functional image that
exists on the Internet somewhere it could request that server to load
modules from a repository, compile them and sent it the bytecodes to
install. That way the small image could start from a very small size, and
add functionality to meet it's business needs, and forgo loading dangerous
things like compilers."

>  A format like ImageSegments is entirely more likely to be useful.
>

Hi John,

    Thanks for your report, I am looking forward for  the next installment.
If it is not too much trouble for you, would you please try to get an answer
for the following question:

    Now, that Web Service can deliver compiled modules in either
CompiledMethod (?) format or ImageSegment format. Which one would be more
preferrable, simpler for the ModuleManger in creating a bootstrap image ?

    Cheers,

    PhiHo

----- Original Message -----
From: "Tim Rowledge" <tim at sumeru.stanford.edu>
To: <squeak-dev at lists.squeakfoundation.org>
Sent: Saturday, August 25, 2001 11:18 AM
Subject: Re: [Squeak Installer] The Compiler, The Final Frontier(?)


> The compiler is only in the image. It is completely unsuited for
> conversion via the CCodeGenreator.
>
> Not that you could possibly have a reasonable use for such a thing;
> there is no need nor sense in having modules as source code. A format
> like ImageSegments is entirely more likely to be useful.
>
> --
> Tim Rowledge, tim at sumeru.stanford.edu, http://sumeru.stanford.edu/tim
> Drugs may lead to nowhere, but at least it's the scenic route.
>
>
>
>