On 24 October 2013 22:02, Edgar J. De Cleene <edgardec2005 at gmail.com> wrote:
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> On 7/28/13 3:22 PM, "Frank Shearar" <frank.shearar at gmail.com> wrote:
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>> It's a term I picked up from work: SqueakTrunk is like a dessicated,
>> dried out thing that's quite small, like a dessicated pea. But
>> ReleaseSqueakTrunk is like the rehydrated pea, useful for cooking.
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>> As the package layering work proceeds, and more packages become
>> unloadable, I unload them from SqueakTrunk. ReleaseSqueakTrunk takes
>> that small SqueakTrunk artifact and reloads all those unloadable
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>> The idea is that people just keep on using the ReleaseSqueakTrunk
>> image, and without even realising it, are using a _constructed_ image,
>> built up from some small core.
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>> frank
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> And when we go bold and use a Core.image?
> Our cousins Pharoers build a PharoKernel from sources , great work of Pavel
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When I have time, basically. I reconstructed the base image from
scratch recently, and haven't had a chance to re-rip out Nebraska,
Universes, and all the other bits I'd previously removed.

I'm very happy to see Pharo do this work. Kudos to Pavel & Guille & friends!

frank

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