The problem with having stuff in the image by default is that it gets used ;)

Once it is used all over the place you cannot unload it anymore.

We have no good way of preventing such "misuse". If we take it into the image, we would basically have to say that it is now a core feature. Which may or may not be a good idea. 

- Bert -

On 04.05.2010, at 12:56, Casey Ransberger wrote:
> +1
> 
> Having a regexp engine in a known good state that jives with your release build is going to be key to grabbing mindshare from the likes of Ruby IMHO. When I was first looking at Squeak, one of my first questions was "how do I do regular expressions?" When the answer turned out to be "Go find a version of this package that works with this release and figure out how to install it" I nearly wrote Squeak off and went on to download a Haskell compiler instead.
> 
> While I'd expect a regexp engine to be unloadable via #unloadAllKnownPackages, (hence not present in a "core" image,) I would even go so far as to say that we should probably be shipping it (and testing it) with the "standard" image.
> 
> </2cents>
> 
> On Tue, May 4, 2010 at 6:46 AM, Bert Freudenberg <bert at freudenbergs.de> wrote:
> On 04.05.2010, at 03:58, Hannes Hirzel wrote:
> > Yes, that's an idea. However if I have the code snippet easily
> > available in the 'Extending the System' workspace, then that's fine
> > for me the time being.
> >
> > In fact I consider the Regex package to be a bit weak in terms of
> > functionality but I think we do not have anything more comprehensive.
> >
> > It is easy for me to install a new image, run the updates and then
> > execute a few more statements to configure the image for a particular
> > purpose.
> >
> > --Hannes
> >
> > On 5/3/10, Ian Trudel <ian.trudel at gmail.com> wrote:
> >> Why isn't Regex included in the core image? It's a question I have in
> >> my mind for a while. Dealing with text in Smalltalk often results in a
> >> lot of code to write. Regular expressions are useful. Many programming
> >> languages nowadays have a Regexp engine included.
> >>
> >> Ian.
> >> --
> >> http://mecenia.blogspot.com/
> 
> 
> Seems to be a perfect example of a package that could be bundled with a release but not be loaded by default?
> 
> - Bert -
> 
> 
> 
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