Casey Ransberger wrote on Fri, 25 Mar 2011 15:28:16 -0700

> Hey while we're thinking about a small clean modular Squeak, I
> strongly recommend looking at what Juan has done with Cuis.
> It's *really* nice, and it's small and it's clean. I really wish we
> had something like Cuis after running #unloadAllKnown on Squeak. 

I am very much in favor os small and simple. Of course, sometimes you
need more funcionality. The first time I tried to use Cuis for a
presentation I ended up having to go back to a traditional Squeak image
because I needed some of the things that had been eliminated.

The ideal is a simple and tiny core that can be expanded as needed in a
way that is as transparent as possible.
 
> As far as modularity goes, have you checked out Environments?
> I think if we decouple the OmniBrowser bits from it, we'll have
> a namespacing mechanism that's actually real and works in Pharo
> today. I got it to mostly work in Squeak without *that* much
> hacking too, so I know it's doable. Not sure how much work is
> baked into freeing it from OB though. 

I don't care that much about name spaces and would have been perfectly
happy with Göran's solution, for example. On the other hand, I would
like to see some more fundamental solution, like the "worlds" thing VPRI
is currently working on.

-- Jecel