MC in basic

Lyndon Tremblay humasect at shaw.ca
Mon Dec 13 22:14:51 UTC 2004


For issues with "image size" or "code quantity" in including MC - why not
just load MC into an image, install/uninstall desired/undesired packages,
then unload it when finished? A->B->C...

-lyndon

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "stéphane ducasse" <ducasse at iam.unibe.ch>
To: "The general-purpose Squeak developers list"
<squeak-dev at lists.squeakfoundation.org>; <avi at beta4.com>
Sent: Monday, December 13, 2004 1:40 PM
Subject: Re: MC in basic


> > Yes, that's exactly right.  And by the same logic, I would now have no
> > problem having VMMaker etc in basic either, since they are now (post
> > 3.5) well packaged too - as I said, I don't *care* what's in basic and
> > what isn't as long as I can trivially unload some of it.  Or what's
> > not in it, since I can trivially load what I need.
>
> For traits we would like to use OB because the old browser is hell.
> And managing the new compiler as a package would be much easier for
> marcus.
> This has also the nice effect that we could even produce an image
> without the compiler.
> Cool ;) but this is for mini-image people.
> So we would like to have MC to be able for us to go fast.
>
> Stef
>
>




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