On 18/02/05 13:20, "goran.krampe@bluefish.se" goran.krampe@bluefish.se wrote:
MinimalMorphic!
This part is a bolder move. We are starting a task with Cees de Groot as team leader called MinimalMorphic.
The task will run *in parallell* with the ongoing regular work on 3.9 and track 3.9 as the base. The job is to create an automated procedure that brings/shrinks the 3.9 image down to a lean and clean tools-only Morphic image. Or possibly also down to MVC, but that is up to the team.
The side product of this work is meant to be a loadable RestOfMorphic package and an eToys package. Or at least a RestOfMorphic package including eToys, that is also up for the team to find out.
This is a hard job and involves cleaning up Morphic to its original simplicity and tweaking the tools to only use that part of Morphic. Dan Ingalls wants to be a part of this work (yes!) and Juan Vuletich has already announced his interest/intentions in working on this, which is just great. And there have been quite a number of people discussing these aspects recently. Cees will contact people and get the team together and anyone interested to help should of course talk to Cees.
This procedure will not actually be applied to the 3.9 update stream, so 3.9 will be a "traditional fat" release, and exactly what 3.9 entails is that other "Stef roadmap"-thread we will start ASAP. But when 3.9 is released the MinimalMorphic procedure will be appliable to it and available on SM, which is a nice thing.
The first thing for the 4.0 release is to actually apply the MinimalMorphic procedure in the update stream. Bam! 4.0 will start its life as a lean and mean Morphic machine. :) We of course then also let 4.0 get a shrunk V4.sources and an almost empty .changes file.
I wish help here , if someone as always could find a way to break things is useful :-).
I could test on Mac 9, 10 and Windows.
And tell how is the world viewed "Desde el Sur".
Edgar