Partitioning the image (was Re: Shrinking sucks!)

Ned Konz ned at squeakland.org
Sat Feb 12 23:52:00 UTC 2005


On Saturday 12 February 2005 3:40 pm, Avi Bryant wrote:
> However, one advantage of doing it that way is that it provides an
> obvious place to hang things like package comments, and potentially
> lots of other interesting metadata (like how to access the
> corresponding SM package).  It also provides a nice declarative form
> of the package declaration - ie, it makes it extremely obvious how you
> add a PI to the update stream.  So maybe we should think about making
> those subclasses, if not mandatory, at least a strongly encouraged
> best practice.

And, of course, it provides a great place to stick the package-level 
installation/deinstallation code.

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