Re: [Pharo-project] Pharo and the rest of the ecosystem

> Hi Chris,
>
> the planed changes in Pharo are not autotelic but in most cases they
> are replacements of current buggy and unmaintainable subsytems.
> We also use automatic or semiautomatic tools for shrinking and
> modularization of the image. For example uMorphic is generated moslty
> automatically with subsequent hand-made cleanup. The original Squeak
> KernelImage was generated in the similar way. But we use the results
> of this tools only as the supporting experimental sources of
> information.
> The goals of Cuis, Spoon and Pharo are very very similar. Everyone
> wants to have the "small, clean, understandable Smalltalk system". But
> Pharo development is more evolutional and modularity is more valuable
> than small size.
> In Smalltalk it is easy to dive into the system and create something
> like Cuis, Spoon or KernelImage. But this projects were created by a
> single person and the degree of adoption of this forks is low. You may
> for example to take the current PharoKernel and withing few days to
> create a perfect small and clean kernel. It is cool intelectual
> adventure but to make it generally used stuff is another story.
>
> -- Pavel