About squeak image compatibility (3.6/7/8)
Bijan Parsia
bparsia at email.unc.edu
Wed Jan 11 03:35:08 UTC 2006
On Tue, 10 Jan 2006, stéphane ducasse wrote:
[snip]
> how this is possible that we do not invent
> a way to deal with all these versions alltogether leaving happily in the same
> "image". I trying to understand why we have the evolution problems. The
> language seems not to take into account evolution and changes. But I do not
> have concrete and reasonable solution.
This is not a solution, but I've always been fond of this discussion:
http://minnow.cc.gatech.edu/squeak/745
The Collage metaphor is appealing to me. I like the idea of having
different version of my image coexisting as different layers, and being
able to load thing into the "right" layer (i.e, the layer they were
defined for).
Cheers,
Bijan.
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