On 5/20/10, Igor Stasenko <siguctua at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> i just thought, that in order to get down to a minimal kernel image,
> it would be nice to move all Morphic globals into a shared pool.
>
> Things like, World, ActiveWorld
> could be placed into a MorphicPool class.
>
> Then we can make an easy transition
> 1. add this pool to classes which using that global & recompile them
>
> 2. for classes, which should have no dependency from Morphic,
> use a messages like
>
> Object >> currentWorld
>    ^ (Smalltalk at: #MorphicPool ifAbsent: [ self error: 'bummer' ])
> currentWorld .
>
> Then, i hope, you can unload the Morphic using MC and it will leave no
> trace in an image (or at least less trace than usual ;).
>
> Same could be applied to Graphics package (to get rid a Display global)
>
> --
> Best regards,
> Igor Stasenko AKA sig.

Hello
If have read all the other mails in this thread.
The proposal by Igo may be implemented with the means available.

Is there any strong reason not to move ahead with this?

Kind regards
Hannes