[squeak-dev] Re: Package unload status

Juan Vuletich juan at jvuletich.org
Tue Jan 5 23:37:47 UTC 2010


Andreas Raab wrote:
> 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.
>
> 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.
>
> Cheers,
>   - Andreas

I fully agree.

BTW, in Cuis, Morph will eventually have a lot less than 500 methods. I 
hope to get to about 200.

Cheers,
Juan Vuletich



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