Re: VM images and working in the VM image

Hi Richard--

> It is also true that packages have versions and being able to run a
> system that can includes two versions of a package and have stuff just
> work would be very cool, but as I understand it, this is a problem at
> least for Java, C++ and Ruby. Why would you want to do this? Because
> someone made a backward incompatible change to Wisiwig and Superthing
> hasn't been patched yet to use the new version of Wisiwig, but
> Coolthing requires the latest version of Wisiwig. If Coolthing and
> Superthing don't pass objects from Wisiwig back and forth probably
> this would be ok.Sounds a bit risky though doesn't it?

     This is a nice thing about transferring compiled methods
directly, instead of using source code. You can be sure that every
method literal is transferred correctly, and you don't need to care
about the name of *anything*.


-C

--
Craig Latta
improvisational musical informaticist
www.netjam.org
Smalltalkers do: [:it | All with: Class, (And love: it)]



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