[squeak-dev] Smalltalk images considered harmful
K. K. Subramaniam
subbukk at gmail.com
Thu May 22 19:26:56 UTC 2008
On Thursday 22 May 2008 6:12:16 pm Norbert Hartl wrote:
> On Thu, 2008-05-22 at 17:35 +0530, K. K. Subramaniam wrote:
> > Tracking dependencies and conflicts across patches, packages and VM is
> > one of the strengths of Debian and a weakness in Squeak.
>
> Can you elaborate on the "..across patches, ..." part? I do not know
> what you mean by that.
Across code updates. If a package requires a particular update level, Squeak
does not pull in those dependencies automatically before installing it. Also,
Squeak does not come with an tool to diff an image with another image (say a
new upstream image).
Of course, it is all a small matter of programming ;-).
Subbu
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