Maybe we should consider it again.

What were the issues raised back then?
Do the VM maintainers think this is reasonable functionality to require
of every new port?

Daniel

Tim Rowledge <tim at sumeru.stanford.edu> wrote:
> Bert Freudenberg <bert at isg.cs.uni-magdeburg.de> is claimed by the authorities to have written:
> > Can't we just do the same? That is, use Unix/URL-like
> > notation in the image and let the VM worry about mapping that to
> > platform path names?
> We (as in the Interval Squeakers) suggested this many years ago, even
> offering our code. It worked very well for all the stuff we did and was
> very thoroughly used on Mac, Acorn, Windows and MediaPad. Nobody seemed
> to like the idea at the time.
> 
> I'd be quite happy to see it happen this time.
> 
> tim
> 
> -- 
> Tim Rowledge, tim at sumeru.stanford.edu, http://sumeru.stanford.edu/tim
> Useful random insult:- They must have done a clean boot on him.