On May 2, 2011, at 8:53 PM, Ted F.A. van Gaalen wrote:
> Hi Marcus
> Ok, that makes it certain that I really have
> to move my packages to newer images
> if I want to sustain through the years,
> doesn't it?
Or it would mean to change the meaning (or on some level: the implementation)
of the concept of the Image... you could have something that is more a
declarative
specification of a frozen object graph. But without the low-level details, and
then
reconstruct the object graph of the image at startup.
But, the VM that would allow that would *not* be able to run existing images
of today.
So I am actually not against what you want... I think that in 2019 we will
actually
have a system that can do exactly what you want.
But the nirvana of a system that supports sofware evolution in a deep way can
not
be achieved with being compatible with what we have now.
We need to change (and destructively improve) our system if we want to go there.
Marcus
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Marcus Denker -- http://www.marcusdenker.de
INRIA Lille -- Nord Europe. Team RMoD.
