I can install a library and start communicating over sockets with one line of code?! That's incredible.
[Incidentally, as a system administrator, I did ask about diffing two filesystems: http://serverfault.com/questions/10424/diffing-two-filesystems. (grin)] Clinton On Sat, May 22, 2010 at 7:59 AM, David Mitchell <david.mitch...@gmail.com>wrote: > People have certainly built tools that do image archeology but they > have tended to be more academic than practical. > > Outside of Squeak, imagine writing a tool to look at two WMware VMDK > files onto which two different people had installed Windows, Firefox, > and various other tools. It might be theoretically possible to write a > program that would look at two VMDKs and tell you about the different > versions of programs that are installed, but it is practically very > difficult. It would be much easier to start both machines on the > network and have them inventory their programs and then compare. > > If you are interested in having two (running) Squeaks talk to one > another, you might want to look at Magma. Magma can store just about > any Squeak object in an object database that multiple Squeaks can > connect. > > Magma's remote framework can be used outside of Magma. It is available > as "Ma client server" See this page for details and usage: > > http://wiki.squeak.org/squeak/2978 > > On Sat, May 22, 2010 at 8:24 AM, Clinton Blackmore > <clinton.blackm...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Yes, I suppose an image is a virtual machine suspended in time. I hadn't > > even considered comparing things other than the source code. > > I'd wondered about filing everything out. That sounds like the way to > go. > > Having the two images talk to each other and run comparisons also sounds > > very interesting -- but sounds rather difficult (although, perhaps it is > not > > and it is just my lack of understanding of squeak that makes it seem so). > > Clinton > > > > On Sat, May 22, 2010 at 4:07 AM, Mateusz Grotek < > unodue...@poczta.onet.pl> > > wrote: > >> > >> If you want to compare source code only, you can file it out. You could > >> also write some code in both images, and ask them to do comparisons (use > >> sockets of fifos, or similar mechanisms for IPC). > >> _______________________________________________ > >> Beginners mailing list > >> Beginners@lists.squeakfoundation.org > >> http://lists.squeakfoundation.org/mailman/listinfo/beginners > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Beginners mailing list > > Beginners@lists.squeakfoundation.org > > http://lists.squeakfoundation.org/mailman/listinfo/beginners > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Beginners mailing list > Beginners@lists.squeakfoundation.org > http://lists.squeakfoundation.org/mailman/listinfo/beginners >
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