I agree - the dangerous forks are the one that split the community, and
make the potential for collaboration and sharing smaller.

To maximize the potential forms that can join the sharing, we need to 
make the sharing itself mundane (simple technology like SM, without
uncommon requirements).

That's why I don't think proposals like Squid or what you describe,
Jecel, are the next solution to this problem. But they definitely are
interesting enough and have enough uses that I'd pursue them anyway, and
someday when distributed database functionality is mainstream Squeak, it
might provide a cleaner solution.

It's important that apt-get is based on sockets, and not on say AFS (a
not-too-common distributed file system).

Daniel

Cees de Groot <cg at cdegroot.com> wrote:
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> On Thu, 2003-05-08 at 21:02, Jecel Assumpcao Jr wrote:
> > Didn't you say above that several forks have already happened (not=20
> > counting older stuff that seems to have died off)?=20
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> Some forks are branches - the stuff comes back and that was always meant
> to be the case. Other forks die off - they never threaten the trunk.
> These forks are harmless, the dangerous forks are those that are
> succesful and split communities. Look at Emacs/Xemacs, for a nice
> example.=20
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