>> On Mon, 23 Jul 2007 01:50:01 -0700, Damien Cassou
>> <damien.cassou at gmail.com> wrote:
>> > I tried to build a squeak-dev image on top of MinimalMorphic (=
>> > KernelImage + Morphic). The only problem I found was the absence of
>> > the Preferences tool.
>>
>> How big a problem is that?
>
> It depends:
>
> - if you don't need the Preferences, it might work. But I didn't tried
> because I'm not sure people are interested in a squeak-dev image
> without being able to set preferences. And setting the preferences
> right is part of the job of the squeak-dev image.
>
> - if you care about the Preferences, Pavel told me it was not easy to
> load as a package because there are a lot of things that need to be
> loaded too.

Because the code was not designed to be decomposed.
A registration mechanism may help there.

Stef