On 12/23/11 9:49 PM, "Chris Cunnington" <smalltalktelevision at gmail.com>
wrote:

> http://ftp.squeak.org/4.3/Squeak4.3.zip
> 
> 
> 
> Welcome to the release of Squeak 4.3.
> 
> There aren¹t any applications bundled with this release. Instead of working on
> applications to bundle with the image, core developers have been inspired by
> the Cog virtual machine to look deeply into the image for things they wanted
> to change. As a result, the image is becoming smaller, tidier, and nimbler.
> 
> There are five Welcome Workspaces in Squeak 4.3. The second is called Future
> Directions: 
> 
> - This image is ~15M. If you execute - Smalltalk unloadAllKnownPackages - it
> will become ~10M 
> 
> - A SqueakCore image is available at http://ftp.squeak.org/4.3
> <http://ftp.squeak.org/4.3>
> 
> - A reasonable target is the creation of a smaller image, which may be a task
> before the community
> 
> - A place to explore where to make reductions is likely the
> removal/replacement of GUIs
> 
> - Once we have a smaller core image, we can employ Andreas Raab's memo [1] on
> how to load code back into the image. This will be based on tests delineating
> the separate responsibilities of core and application developers
> 
>  
> [1]]http://lists.squeakfoundation.org/pipermail/squeak-dev/2010-May/150658.htm
> l 
> <http://lists.squeakfoundation.org/pipermail/squeak-dev/2010-May/150658.html>
> 
> 
> Happy Holidays Hacking,
> 
> the Squeak Oversight Board
> 
> 
> Well done, thanks to all and ...
> 
> Feliz Nochebuena
> 
> Edgar
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