Morphic Splitters Team progress report

stéphane ducasse ducasse at iam.unibe.ch
Wed Mar 16 08:45:06 UTC 2005


Hi Cees

this is cool.
Alex is working on the MCPackageBrowser. I gave him feedback because 
now there are still some
usability problems but when the new version is out this may be a good 
idea for your team to have a look.

By the way a while ago alex also did a byte-code loader for MC (10* 
faster loading) at that time there was no much interest so we put it 
into the fridge  but this could help too.

On 16 mars 05, at 8:26, Cees de Groot wrote:

> [periodical team report to squeak-dev]
>
> We've been splitting like madmen - at the moment using Monticello, 
> which works fine but is slowish (maybe better tooling/process will be 
> the result of discussion in some of the other teams).

I think that this is good to give feedback on the problems you are 
encountering.

> We have the three packages, and it looks like FullMorphic and EToys 
> actually unload without doing too much damage to the image. However, 
> the distribution of code is skewed: CoreMorphic is still quite a bit 
> larger than the other two combined. With most of the 'easy' splitting 
> being done (moving whole classes or even whole class categories 
> around), the coming time the team will have to resort to hard work, 
> hopefully with lots of support from the analysis tools of Dan and 
> Daniel.

My impression is that working with MC should really help but could you 
let us know what would
help you (support for renaming of packages and their extensions I 
guess, the package browser already supports that) but I'm curious.

Stef




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