[squeak-dev] Did we really nailed files?

Tony Garnock-Jones tonyg at ccs.neu.edu
Fri Apr 8 18:32:13 UTC 2011


Frank Shearar wrote:
> * Gilad's vision's great and all, but it's not what we have today. We 
> have a world where Smalltalk's been touting images for 30 years... and 
> noone else uses them.

Just a nitpick: *everybody* else uses them. "debootstrap" is the 
SystemTracer of the Linux world. But of course, you're right in that 
nobody is *aware* they're using an "ad hoc, informally-specified, 
bug-ridden, slow implementation of half of" Smalltalk's image facility :-)

Regards,
   Tony




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