[squeak-dev] Re: Package unload status

Igor Stasenko siguctua at gmail.com
Tue Jan 5 23:37:38 UTC 2010


2010/1/6 Andreas Raab <andreas.raab at gmx.de>:
> Igor Stasenko wrote:
>>
>> 2010/1/5 Edgar J. De Cleene <edgardec2001 at yahoo.com.ar>:
>>>
>>>
>>> This is GREAT news.
>>> I like help with any Cuis + MC + M17N = SqueakCore , starting with
>>> 3.11Unloaded.
>>>
>>
>> And what to do with all changes to Kernel being added recently to trunk?
>> Or you want to deal with them later, in same fashion as Juan
>> backported closure compiler?
>
> It's too early to answer these questions, but what I'm thinking goes roughly
> along the lines of using Cuis to define the scope of the image but use the
> implementation from the trunk. In other words, I'm more interested to use
> Cuis to cut down on the number of classes and methods in the image rather
> than their specific implementations. It's quite clear that given the
> difference in number of methods, for example, in class Morph (500 vs. 1000)
> there is a lot of room for moving things into unloadable parts.
>
+1
I suppose, Edgar had same thought in mind, but didn't expressed it well :)
I just asked to be sure.

> However, at this point, the goal still needs to be getting more packages un-
> and reloadable. There is a learning process involved in that which very
> useful to understand how to slice and dice the system to make more
> self-contained entities.
>

+100. Lets follow that road.

> Cheers,
>  - Andreas


-- 
Best regards,
Igor Stasenko AKA sig.



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