RE: [Squeak-VMdev] RFC: Default VM directory

[Ian P. <ian...@in...>]

On Thu, 5 Sep 2002, Tim Rowledge wrote:

> Oh, and Ian, you were wrong a couple of messages back - in general the
> .changes file could do with living in a writable directory...

Well, only because the image insists on opening it read-write.  There's
nothing fundamental preventing it from being read-only if the session is
not intended to make any changes in the image.

> limiting assumptions currently in the system. I suspect that it isn't
> normally expected in unix that a text file would be in
> /blah/bin/var/nobodyinparticular/usr/sqf/squeak/3.2/bin along with the
> vm.

Actually, this is precisely the situation we have when using the npsqueak
browser plugin.

> And from reading some of the discussion relating to ROX I get the
> impression that where to put files can become a holywar for unixoids.

Which is why it should all be kept as simple as possible.

Ian