Fwd: KernelImage fixes (was: Re: [squeak-dev] Burn the Squeak Image! (Why I am running for board))

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Fwd: KernelImage fixes (was: Re: [squeak-dev] Burn the Squeak Image! (Why I am running for board))

Stéphane Ducasse
not sure that this is still correct but I found that lost in my spam  
filter
Sorry pavel.

Begin forwarded message:

> From: Pavel Krivanek <[hidden email]>
> Date: March 1, 2009 5:12:20 PM CEST
> To: stephane ducasse <[hidden email]>
> Subject: KernelImage fixes (was: Re: [squeak-dev] Burn the Squeak  
> Image! (Why  I am running for board))
>
> Hi Stef,
>
> there are some opened issues so we may start with them:
> 310 and 311 - the goal is to be able to unload all tests. As Adrian
> sugested, we may place it the package Tests - at least for now.
> 346 - easy and safe to integrate
> 348 - very important issue. Maybe you should place in one update fix
> for MorphicUIManager>>interactiveParserFor: and in the next the rest
> of the patch to prevent loading problems
> There was one wrong step in the development of Pharo during removing
> of MVC. Pharo deleted all MVC related code however in some cases it
> was the sign to use the UIManager.
> 71, 59 - very critical patch but I will have to check if the patches
> are suitable for the latest pharo
>
> I suggest to remove the unused class variable Current from the
> ColorTheme (issue 467) firstly - that cleans a lot of obsoleteClasses.
>
> I think that we need one important step in the development of Pharo -
> the next image that will not contain any code that can be unloaded.
> That should help us to increase the Pharo quality because now most
> packges are on the logical level in contradistiction to KernelImage
> where all packages are standalone unloadable entities.
> The ideal state is when we have the minimal core image with logical
> packages (like Collections) and the rest will be all unloadable
> packages.
>
> Cheers,
> -- Pavel
>
>
>
> On Sun, Mar 1, 2009 at 9:57 AM, stephane ducasse
> <[hidden email]> wrote:
>>
>>> The KernelImage ZOO including the building environment is here:
>>> http://squeak.cz/public/pub/KernelImage/current/
>>>
>>> Of course it is not perfect - the smallest image works only in Linux
>>> and MorphicCore needs a lot of fixes so people should start with
>>> MorphicExt and so on but it is usable starting point if someone is
>>> interested...
>>>
>>> -- Pavel
>>
>> Hi pavel
>>
>> do you have some fixes, cs list that we could slowly integrate to  
>> pharo?
>>
>> Stef
>>
>


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