Partitioning the image (was Re: Shrinking sucks!)

Brian Brown rbb at techgame.net
Sun Feb 13 21:01:14 UTC 2005


On Feb 12, 2005, at 4:40 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.

It also provides an obvious place for full blown documentation, and IMO 
would be a great place to start exploration in a given package....

Brian




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