With respect, please re-read your post, with emphasis on "A snapshot of an old Windows machine can run on a virtual machine forever, whereas keeping an operating system compatible forever is bound to fail." I do not agree that virtualization is fix-all goodness, and I have concerns about trying to have various versions of important classes in the image.
Bill -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Marcus Denker Sent: Tuesday, January 26, 2010 5:10 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [Pharo-project] Gardening/ScriptManager On Jan 26, 2010, at 10:59 PM, Schwab,Wilhelm K wrote: > Not so fast, all you have to do is sprinkle some .net dust on the computer > and everything will be fixed until the next time MS changes their mind, right? > > Sorry, couldn't resist. Ironically, I find that software written to MS specs > breaks readily; things written with anything up through contempt for them > seems to work just fine. I stop short of seeing a vm as allowing one to run > Windows in perpetuity, but that is another debate. > > This was not about Microsoft or Windows, nor about virtualization in particular. Marcus -- Marcus Denker -- http://www.marcusdenker.de INRIA Lille -- Nord Europe. Team RMoD. _______________________________________________ Pharo-project mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gforge.inria.fr/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/pharo-project _______________________________________________ Pharo-project mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gforge.inria.fr/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/pharo-project
