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For the Fall release (7.3 VW) we will have a first cut (meaning, this will not be the final word on this) at a well defined runtime environment for VisualWorks. What do we think we'll have? Well, this is what engineering thinks will be there by release time:
Including a non-tools image that folks can load their parcels into. There will likely still be stripping with RuntimePacakger after that, but if so, we'll try to make the RTP process be as close to one-step as possible.
Easy access to stdio/stdout in the image
It won't be as clear cut as "drop your parcels here and away you go... yet. We intend to get there. BottomFeeder is a rough proof of concept of that - we want to end up with a system that is:
Easy to define
Easy to deploy
Easy to update in place
The basics will show up in 7.3 (late fall 2004), with more to follow. It's quite possible that we'll have updates to this out of synch with a major release - stay tuned.
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