Shrinking

stéphane ducasse ducasse at iam.unibe.ch
Thu Aug 26 10:09:45 UTC 2004


I would suggest you to really look at 3.7 basic because lot of stuff 
improved.
Do not apply the update on your shrunk image.

Stef

On Aug 26, 2004, at 11:29 AM, Pavel Krivanek wrote:

> I have to say I wanted. But shrinking this new image is much more 
> difficult.
> I will try it soon, but I wanted to get enough experiences with this 
> process
> first.
>
> It's possible to take shrinked image 3.0 and apply updates 
> selectively, but
> this is very time-consuming hard work (there are cca 1800 new 
> changesets).
>
> The question is if the minimal image should contain Morphic. Clearing 
> the
> image with Morphic safely is terrible. For example, when you delete 
> 'The
> worlds of Squeak' project using published script, image still contains 
> the
> world with a car, there's second unused HandMorph etc. To find and 
> destroy
> all obsolete instances safely is interesting but lengthy detective 
> task.
>
> Pavel
>
>




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