KernalImage doesn't have a GUI. It can load Monticello packages. He
has a script that will load in MorphicCore.

MorphicCore does (but has many bugs).

MorphicExt is more stable, but larger.

KernalImage is a Squeak image without any GUI. It has collections,
numbers, classes, the compiler, but little else. It has a text-based
UI that can evaluate Smalltalk expressions, and it can load files from
disk. Pavel has a fileIn for Monticello, so then you can load any
other package, as long as it doesn't have a GUI.

His other image is called MinimalMorphic. He has a Monticello package
for it, so you can load it from KernalImage. MinimalMorphic isn't
particularly minimal, but it has had some stuff (like eToys) removed
and I think he wants to remove more. It is a basic Morphic
environment, showing that you can separate MVC from Morphic.



On Sat, Feb 28, 2009 at 9:51 AM, Eliot Miranda <eliot.miranda at gmail.com> wrote:
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> On Sat, Feb 28, 2009 at 7:44 AM, Klaus D. Witzel <klaus.witzel at cobss.com>
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>> On Sat, 28 Feb 2009 15:35:49 +0100, Eliot Miranda wrote:
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>>> On Sat, Feb 28, 2009 at 1:17 AM, edgar De Cleene wrote:
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>>>> > A standard "kernel image" that everyone builds
>>>> > off of has long
>>>> > been a pipe dream of nearly everyone in the community. I
>>>> > believe
>>>> > that such an image is not achievable in the short term;
>>>> > convincing all of the squeak distributions to adopt it
>>>> > would be
>>>> > nearly impossible to adopt incrementally.
>>>> >
>>>>
>>>> Such image exist and is MorphicCore of Pavel Krivanek.
>>>> We should go towards this , removing packages from the top and reshaping
>>>> packages if packages as we know today can't be unloades/loaded nicely
>>>
>>>
>>> Any image containing a GUI is a non-starter IMO.  People may not want a
>>> GUI
>>> (e.g. the embedded and scripting folks).  People may want a particular
>>> GUI
>>> (MVC, Morphic, Tweak, Newspeak, Croquet, one of the native GUIs) with no
>>> vestiges of the old one.  So the common image needs to be a small
>>> headless
>>> core that can bootstrap any image.  This image needs minimal scripting
>>> support to respond to command-line bootstrap commands (including
>>> cross-platform stdin & stdout and a file interface), a compiler with
>>> which
>>> to compile code, collections, magnitudes, exceptions (as necessary), a
>>> default error handler that dumps the stack to stdout and then aborts, and
>>> that's about it.
>>>
>>> All images derived from it should be derived by running scripts
>>> (repeatable process).
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>> Sure, and Pavel's has this all, and it's working, no wonder that Edgar
>> often mentions it:
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>> - http://www.cincomsmalltalk.com/userblogs/ralph/blogView?entry=3342635112
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> If it doesn't have a GUI then why is it called MorphicCore??!
> Reading from the blog entry it looks like it has eToys removed but not much
> more.
> Pavel, is it a headless image?
> Klaus, if the image is not headless ten it doesn't meet my specification.
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>>> These scripts should be versioned.
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>>> Further, this initial image should be built from scratch, e.g. using John
>>> Maloney's MicroSqueak as a starting point.
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>> Interesting. Where is that one, search didn't show it:
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>> - http://www.google.com/search?q=John+Maloney+MicroSqueak
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>> [... much more good stuff cut away ...]
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>> --
>> "If at first, the idea is not absurd, then there is no hope for it".
>> Albert Einstein
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