Adrian Lienhard wrote:
>
> 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.
It was part of the Kernel-Extensions package, and now it is in.

http://bugs.squeak.org/view.php?id=7244

Keith