On Feb 12, 2009, at 15:15 , Keith Hodges wrote:

> Adrian Lienhard wrote:
>> I've recently made a similar script for Pharo. See
>> ScriptLoader>>cleanUpForRelease. This had brought the default image
>> size below 10MB.
>>
>> Adrian
>
> I give up, I really do, is this candid camera?
>
> We have endless discussions on squeak-dev about how difficult it is to
> clean up an image, we discuss,  suggest and implement conventions, to
> solve the problem, that of implementing #freeSomeSpace on classes that
> can non-destructively clean things up and #cleanUp on classes that can
> destructively tidy themselves up before a release.

I think that's a good idea. I just don't expect someone else to do it.  
So don't expect me to do it. Maybe at some point I will get round to  
it, but at the moment I have higher priority items on my list.

Cheers,
Adrian

BTW, where is this implementation you mentioned? I cannot find it in  
3.10 and on the website I somehow can't find a download for a recent  
3.11 image.