Frank

If I understand you correctly you want to do the following

1) unload some once packages from trunk. The packages are taken from
what is in the list in #unloadAllKnownPackages.

2) add a trunk method #loadAllPackagesThatUnloadAllKnownPackagesUsedToUnload

3) add CI build jobs which do
#loadAllPackagesThatUnloadAllKnownPackagesUsedToUnload and run tests
on the loaded packages.

4) People use the result of 3) for regular work. This is the "full"
4.5 image as we have of now only that we have less in trunk and the
unlodable packages reside in their own repositories.

Steps 2..4 are done repeatedly.

Is this what you mean?

--Hannes

On 2/13/13, Frank Shearar <frank.shearar at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 13 February 2013 11:22, David T. Lewis <lewis at mail.msen.com> wrote:
>> 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.
>
> While we're being clear about what's clear :) I'm wanting to _lose_
> #unloadAllKnownPackages, and replace it with a
> #loadAllPackagesThatUnloadAllKnownPackagesUsedToUnload, and add a
> bunch of new jobs running those unloaded packages' test suites.
>
> That way, the thing called Squeak4.5-nnnn.image still contains what
> Squeak4.5-${whatever_current_is}.image, only the essence of trunk -
> what SqueakTrunk produces - shrinks.
>
>> Dave
>
>