On Fri, 10 May 2002, Mark Guzdial wrote:

> There is a downside to swapping out PWS and swapping in Comanche, and 
> that is that more external files are needed.

Presumably not for base Comanche, yes? Just for ComSwiki. So you won't be
able to run a ComSwiki from the base image, but you only have to download
the ComSwiki bits.

>  Ted (who may still be 
> reading -- you there, Ted?) argued from the beginning that PWS should 
> somehow include its files in-image 

Me too. I actually did some work toward this for the nuBlue book but it's
somewhere in the depths of my Hard Drive that I'm about to pack up :)

I talked a little with Je77 about this, I think.

>so that it'd be ready to go out of 
> the box.  Comanche is more external-file-oriented than PWS, so the 
> problem is worse.

Part of the problem with the PWS server files is that the were a bit hard
to find. Having a good public place that squeak could autodownload from
might do the job. We have better compression/archive tools in image right
now too.

> If we decide it's a problem.  3.3 assumes a Net connection, which 
> assumes that you can go download the rest if you want.  Maybe it's less 
> of an issue today.

I think having a more uptodate HTTP server/app framework in the image is a
good thing, fwiw. In some senses, ComSwiki is a extra (albeit a very very
important one).

(Plus, I'm struggling to de-filize ComSwiki anyway :))

Cheers,
Bijan Parsia.

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