> On 10 Feb 2016, at 18:25, Sven Van Caekenberghe <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>
>> On 10 Feb 2016, at 15:07, David T. Lewis <[email protected]> wrote:
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>> On Wed, Feb 10, 2016 at 02:46:23PM +0100, Guille Polito wrote:
>>> Yeap, linux VMs are not shipped with the plugin since a couple of years.
>>> Then, the code in the image is needed.
>>
>> For background - the UUID plugin is trivially simple, but there were
>> issues on certain Linux distributions that caused it to be a big pain
>> for packaging and distribution. Nowadays the in-image UUID is so fast
>> that the plugin is no longer worth the aggrivation.
>>
>> Dave
>
> Thanks for adding to the discussion, Dave.
>
> <Not meant for the messenger/>
>
> This whole f*ing mess makes me angry and sad.
> This happens when you don't clean up when you can.
>
One thing that I still do not understand from back when I tried to
contribute to Squeak was that “cleaning” was not only discouraged
but even *actively* made impossible.
I still do not understand the reason. Cui Bono? It just destroyed having
*any* form of future… the thing that we, allegedly, where trying to invent…
Marcus
