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Adding my 2 cents to this subject<br>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 8/1/21 2:11 AM, Phil B via Cuis-dev
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<div>This advice is a bit more critical for Cuis since we
don't have major releases the way other Smalltalks do as it
is basically a rolling release. So we frequently have
updates which aren't safe to overlay on a modified image as
they can, and do, assume anything is fair game to modify
(i.e. core classes/methods get renamed, parts of Morphic get
torn down/restructured/restarted etc.) There will almost
never be a warning as updates are only tested against the
previous 'vanilla' image and no one really knows what
they'll do to the state of a given modified image. So when
updates come out that you are interested in, or if it's just
been a while since you updated: you save all of your
packages, update your copy of the git repo, open up the
latest image, apply updates and then load your packages.</div>
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Thank you for sharing this thought Phil, it was clarifing to me.<br>
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I would add this consideration. The procedure of not saving the
image would not fit well in Squeak because there, by default, <br>
are included tools for children [of all ages;)] which do not require
code writing to make a full artifact. <br>
For example EToys. Since it does not require code but cinematics
interactions it <br>
would make more difficult/cumbersome/indirect to export<br>
your work as file in Git. There it makes a lot more sense to save
the Image.<br>
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As I see it, Cuis starts minimal. If you bend it into the Squeak use
case then it becomes interesting<br>
to save the image. If you bend it more into, say, Python, then it is
more fit, and you<br>
will fill more at home keeping on with Git.<br>
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bye<br>
Nicola<br>
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