[squeak-dev] "Future Directions" welcome workspace

Chris Cunnington smalltalktelevision at gmail.com
Wed Dec 5 22:45:22 UTC 2012


On 2012-12-05 5:42 PM, Frank Shearar wrote:
> On 5 December 2012 22:41, karl ramberg <karlramberg at gmail.com> wrote:
>> ]http://lists.squeakfoundation.org/pipermail/squeak-dev/2010-May/150658.html
>>
>> Seems like wrong link ?
> See, that's why QA is important! Thanks!
>
> frank
>
>> Karl
>>
>>
>> On Wed, Dec 5, 2012 at 11:25 PM, Frank Shearar <frank.shearar at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>>> Right now the "Future Directions" workspace says this:
>>>
>>> <quote>
>>> - This image is ~15M. If you execute - Smalltalk
>>> unloadAllKnownPackages - it will become ~10M
>>>
>>> - A SqueakCore image is available at http://ftp.squeak.org/4.4
>>>
>>> - 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.html
>>> </quote>
>>>
>>> I'm reasonably happy with the above, unless someone has something
>>> extra cool they'd like to mention?
>>>
>>> frank
>>>
>>
>>
>>
Actually, I think that's my fault. I'll find the link.

Chris


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