On Mon, Feb 11, 2013 at 05:28:26PM +0000, H. Hirzel wrote:
> Yanni,
> 
> I think St??phane refers to the original Pharo manifesto which clearly
> states "no backward compatibility".  http://code.google.com/p/pharo/
> 
> However the current Pharo web page has a mission statement
>    http://www.pharo-project.org/about
> sets a much more moderate tone.
> 
> In any case in this thread we want to move on towards a Squeak core
> and learn from the Pharo experience as much as possible. Please let us
> not digress from this important topic.
> 
> Maybe we should follow both at the same time
> 
> Let me call it
> - the Pavel Krivanek approach and
> - the
>      SmalltalkImage unloadAllKnownPackages
>   approach
> 
> BTW
> #unloadAllKnownPackages
> 
> used to work in Squeak 4.1, see
>   http://lists.squeakfoundation.org/pipermail/squeak-dev/2010-August/152427.html
> 
> So there is no reason why we should not manage to get it working again
> in Squeak 4.5alpha.
> 
> And Pavel's approach may be followed in parallel. Because fixing one
> thing will help the other and vice-verse.
> 

+1

Exactly so. That is what I intended when I mentioned #unloadAllKnownPackages.
Thanks for stating it so clearly.

Dave