Image factoring

goran.hultgren at bluefish.se goran.hultgren at bluefish.se
Wed Nov 13 01:35:34 UTC 2002


Colin Putney <cputney at whistler.com> wrote:
> On Tuesday, November 12, 2002, at 12:32  PM, Ned Konz wrote:
> 
> >> Do we want to stick to the post-to-the-list-then-harvest pattern?
> >> I've attached my PWS work here for those interested, I'll be happy
> >> to post to SqueakMap instead, or wherever the new update stream
> >> maintainers would prefer.
> >
> > I think we need to set up a new category on SqueakMap for these
> > removal/stripping scripts. Perhaps the new SqueakMap UIs can hide the
> > strippers so that people don't get confused and accidentally remove
> > things from their images.
> 
> Well, I meant I'd post the PWS package to SqueakMap. I don't think 
> stripping scripts should be posted on SM. SM is for packages - a set of 
> classes and methods that add functionality. I think removal change sets 
> should go into the update stream so that the base image gets smaller.

Yes, I agree in general. But later on we might want to have other stuff
on SM, but we need to think a bit more about that.

> Colin Putney
> Whistler.com

regards, Göran




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