Welcome to
the release of Squeak 4.3.
There aren’t
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
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
Happy
Holidays Hacking,
the Squeak
Oversight Board