Refactoring packages summary and status page up

danielv at netvision.net.il danielv at netvision.net.il
Sun Nov 17 21:22:49 UTC 2002


at: http://swiki.squeakfoundation.org/squeakfoundation/77

If you've actually started working on unloading any part of the image,
write yourself down, with a status statement. There's also a link to a
page with some tips on how to do this kind of work, additional
suggestions/tips welcome.

Anyone can help this project -
 - For anything in testing that you know even a little, download it, try
it out and start looking for methods left behind, broken menus,
projects. Try to unload it and reload it, and check if it actually
works. Write about your findings here. That way we can move things to
Pending and then put them in the image.
 - If you want to help factor a package out, first read the pages above,
and look at the kind of changes done by people who've done this. Use one
of the tools in the image that show differences from the image (like the
file contents browser - do remove existing). Then take a package (maybe
from the list below, as suggested in these parts) and give it a go.

- Genie
- StarSqueak
- Sound synthesis/text to speech
- Speech-*
- Network-HTML*
- Stock fonts (nice to be able to unload them for license/shrinking 
reasons, leaving a single font used for everything)
- Games (should be trivial)
- Obsolete or unused classes (DocLibrary and TarArchive come to mind)
- Genie configuration UI
- eToy peer-to-peer
- Nebraska

Daniel



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