Mike,

> I can't imagine anyone who is learning Squeak to miss an extra 4M.
> I'm sure that the people who are getting Squeak to run in a limited
> environment will be dealing with far more complex issues, and having to
> strip out the source will be quite minor.

Opinion:

I don't think the problem is really in getting the image big, but
instead a philosophical one.  At least my first Smalltalk experience
was with Envy, so I used to think of the image as my private resource
while the common source code repository is a shared resource.  Of
course it will require effort to make Squeak a true multideveloper
tool (to allow *simultaneous* access to the sources from different
images) but we should always keep the possibility in mind.

In one word, I think incorporating sources into image would be a
bad idea.

Boris