[ANN] Kernel image overrides described on Mantis

stéphane ducasse ducasse at iam.unibe.ch
Sun Sep 10 20:45:37 UTC 2006


Now I'm quite busy but yes I want to have a look at the overrides.
I should publish
	- a postmortem analysis of 3.9
	- a possible roadmap for 3.10
	- have a look at MC2 :)
Stef


> Congratulations Pavel, you've mastered the almost impossible:  
> instead of debating the subject to death (as is GOF tradition  
> here), you moplexed[1] the .image so it no longer needs to be pure 
> [tm] monolithic along very important separators. I've worked  
> through the issues and thrown my CHF 0.02 onto some of them.
>
> Stef: 3.9+66xPavel's overrides is what IMO is the best start for  
> 3.10 (unless there'd be an .image format change which would force a  
> 4.0 release).
>
> Stef (again :) it will be interesting to see the TestCase(s) which  
> need to be developed together with the permanent 66 overrides ;-)
>
> Supposed that there will be 66 suggested (and debatable) solutions  
> documented on Mantis, it seems to be possible for 4+ Squeakers over  
> a Saturday + a Sunday (+ coffee + lunch + drinks + DSL/WLAN,  
> sponsored) to make an Anne Berry[1] .image happen.
>
> /Klaus
>
> [1] http://www.google.com/search?q=separability+dirac+moplex
>
> On Sat, 09 Sep 2006 20:16:28 +0200, Pavel Krivanek wrote:
>
>> Hi all,
>>
>> I added 66 new issues on Mantis that describe overrides in my kernel
>> image. They have prefix [KernelImageOverride]. Most of them will make
>> the kernel classes more independent on user interface and other
>> packages. So please feel free to discuss them and write patches.
>>
>> If we will solve this issues, we will be able to have minimal current
>> Squeak image without user interface and other packages that will be
>> created without ugly short-term hacks. So if you want to reach this
>> goal, Mantis is the right place where can you help us.
>>
>> -- Pavel
>>
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