[squeak-dev] binary development (was: 3.11 and the trunk)

K. K. Subramaniam subbukk at gmail.com
Mon Aug 24 01:58:11 UTC 2009


On Monday 24 Aug 2009 3:08:00 am Jecel Assumpcao Jr wrote:
> Was the analogy about how a chain of certificates is like a chain of
> images (starting all the way back from Smalltalk-76)?
Yes.
> > The key tools for a 'binary' encoding are the equality and diff tools.
> > Given two images A and B, check if they are equivalent. If not, find the
> > difference D that will reconstitute B from A.
>
> This is what the Debian guy was asking for, but the idea was to convert
> images into some kind of XML and then use traditional text diff to deal
> with that.
I meant a difference operator, not the diff(1) program. Change set browser is a 
good tool but is incomplete. It does not track and log all changes (e.g. class 
variables).

Subbu



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