On Tue, Nov 20, 2012 at 10:49 AM, Chris Muller <asqueaker at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> But the King still needs to remain available for some time yet -- to
>>> preserve some of the diamonds in there which may not have a caretaker
>>> at this time.
>>
>> More than that: Metacello has - as I understand it at least - coupled
>> the notion of a project together with the source of that project. In
>> other words, a ConfigurationOfFoo says "get these packages from this
>> server". That means that unless you take care in how you write your
>> ConfigurationOfs your source location is a single point of failure.
>
> Making the original SqueakSource read-only has no bearing on this use-case.

Oops, I'm wrong about that.  Please disregard.