Whither Squeak?
Dan Ingalls
Dan at SqueakLand.org
Sat May 20 00:30:41 UTC 2006
>Hi Ralph--
>
>> ...I have heard that people have tried to strip Morphic out of the
>> image, and they have tried to strip MVC out of the image, and both
>> have failed. Why did it fail?
>
> I think the initial attempts were hampered simply because it's difficult to remove the very GUIs you're using to do the removal.
>
> I have successfully removed both Morphic and MVC, as well as all support for graphics (BitBlt, the Form hierarchy, etc.), and the compiler, and almost everything else, largely automatically[1, 2]. I did this by operating on a target memory at a distance, from another memory where the tools were.
I worked out removal of MVC ages ago. It left a few pieces of Paragraph as I recall, but it was a push-button operation called discardMVC back in those days. I see it's still in 3.9, but i wouldn't be surprised if it's not quite "push-button' anymore.
- Dan
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