Monticello and live systems (was Re: 1 day left...)

stéphane ducasse ducasse at iam.unibe.ch
Mon Feb 27 10:50:05 UTC 2006


Hi andreas

This is clear that MC could be better to work on bootstrapping and  
changing a living system. This is not what we would dream about, and  
we would prefer something that has the property of MC + support  
change on live objects. This is why for 3.9 we have been forced to  
use MC as slow changesets. Since we cannot take a mini-image and load  
the latest versions (but we should load all the intermediate state).  
Ideally we would like to have a nano kernel and a load script but  
this is the future.

Now I think that MC is a step forward and that it should improve. I  
can also tell you that
postscript in cs are also a problem to analyze code and build tools.  
This is the question between a declarative code
representation and not. We got already these discussions in the past.

Stef



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