Hello Pavel
Thank you for your recommendation. As not having followed closely what you and others did in Pharo, may I ask you to give a short summary where you have reached now with Pharo core effort.
I have seen quite a number of smaller Pharo images on the Pharo integration server but I am not sure what the status of them is.
https://ci.inria.fr/pharo/view/Pharo-Kernel-2.0/
Please let me ask very basic questions.
1. Are they all derived from the the main current "full" Pharo2.0? 2. What is the quality of them? 3. How are they used by people?
Thank you in advance
--Hannes
On 2/11/13, Pavel Krivanek squeak1@continentalbrno.cz wrote:
Hi,
I recommend to follow the same way we use in Pharo:
- firstly prepare the SqueakCore and clean it a bit.
- make basic packages like Network and Monticello loadable.
- make the rest of the system loadable using Monticello at once,
ensure everything is working well
- start to improve granularity of that bundle
Unfortunately, I have to say that Squeak is eons back from the point of modularity.
Cheers, -- Pavel
On Sun, Feb 10, 2013 at 12:51 AM, Frank Shearar frank.shearar@gmail.com wrote:
In the interests of revisiting Pavel Krivanek's work, and a long term goal of this community, I thought I'd use the Dependency Browser and dig out interpackage dependencies.
By scraping the DependencyBrowser's contents together with a bit of UI scripting I've constructed a dotfile of Trunk (attached). Turning this into a PNG results in an 11MB image! [1] Nodes near the top are nodes that aren't used by many things.
For instance, ReleaseBuilder's right at the top because nothing depends on it.
One thing to note is that XML-Parser and Nebraska are only used by Universes, and that Universes isn't used by anything else.
It occurs to me that we could thus remove these 3 packages from trunk and add the loading of these to ReleaseBuilderFor4dot5 [2], and still end up with a 4.5 that while apparently unchanged, actually has a smaller core.
What do you think of trying this out as an experiment? How would we unload these packages? (I should note: I've nothing against these packages. They're just packages that aren't woven into the guts of the image, and are thus easily removable.)
frank
[1] If you have dot installed, `dot -Tpng -o trunk-deps.dot trunk-deps.png` will do the trick. [2] Installer squeak package: 'trunk'; install: '39Deprecated-ar.19'; install: '311Deprecated-nice.2'; install: 'XML-Parser-ael.35'; install: 'Nebraska-ul.35'; install: 'Universes-nice.45'.