re: Basic tenets of what goes in the image
Daniel Vainsencher <[email protected]>
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What you say is true, but very reasonable people may wildly disagree on what that statement means, and I'm trying to eliminate precisely that effect... :-) Daniel PS - Taking the simplifying direction a step further, my day-job team has an expression that seems relevant - "Make Good" ;-) Craig Latta <[email protected]> wrote: > > > This is my proposed base policy on what should go into the image... > > That all sounds reasonable. If we want to make policy, I think I would > (somewhat loosely) state it as simply "the released image should contain > things for which omission would cause confusion or inconvenience to a > new user". Note that, as our distribution technology changes (and we get > things like utterly-minimal images, pervasive network installation, > unloading, etc.), the implications of that statement will evolve. > > > -C > > -- > Craig Latta > improvisational musical informaticist > [email protected] > www.netjam.org/resume > Smalltalkers do: [:it | All with: Class, (And love: it)] > _______________________________________________ > Squeakfoundation mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.squeakfoundation.org/listinfo/squeakfoundation