etoys implementation

[Yoshiki Ohshima]

At Wed, 25 Jun 2008 19:09:12 -0400,
Frank Ch. Eigler wrote:
> 
> "Edward Cherlin" <echerlin at gmail.com> writes:
> 
> > [...]  Can gst bring in a .sources file and a .changes file and
> > create a working image?
> 
> It doesn't have to.  It builds "gst.im" from scratch at every
> bootstrap.  If squeak/etoys did something close to that, many
> concerns would be pacified.

  Yes, for GNU Smalltalk, these are not .sources file and .changes
file but you can create an image file.

  BTW, Smalltalk-72 had a text file called ALLDEFS that is the
bootstrap file for the entire system.  For Smalltalk, bootstraping
from a text file is not a new concept.  While Dan and others were
experimenting different ideas like image, somehow a part of free
software community made very rigid by people who only know one way of
doing it and now we are having this conversation.

  For those who are curious, try Smalltalk-72 emulator available here:

http://map1.squeakfoundation.org/sm/accountbyid/a6930213-b578-49b1-862e-228cc5ab39e7/package/b98225e0-151d-4508-88fe-483db46f9814/autoversion/1

  BTW, As pointed out many times, we are not sticking to Squeak
because it is Smalltalk; but because it has Etoys.

-- Yoshiki