Re: Basic tenets of what goes in the image (was: Flow integration)

Tim Rowledge <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.lang.smalltalk.squeak.foundation
Message-ID <[email protected]>
> * It has to be understandable. Add class comments, reduce class
> count/size, reduce functionality to the minimum that really needs to be
> in the image. Just keep it simple.
I agree with this, certainly. For example, Flow should not go in the
image - because _no_ network stuff should be in the image ab initio.
Yes, I know we need some network stuff to allow practical use of SM etc,
but _the base image_ should have none of this.

There is, however, a very good argument for building and providing a
'typical' image with all the usual development tools preinstalled and
probably for a newbie/demo image with lots of pleasing tchotchkes and
explicatory stuff.

tim
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Tim Rowledge, [email protected], http://sumeru.stanford.edu/tim
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