This is amazing. I can't wait to have a bootstrap. You cannot - well I guess you specifically can but most people can't - realize how difficult it is currently to edit some Kernel classes such as MethodContext. I edited it for Pharo-40003 and it was really hard. With a bootstrap it will be much simpler.
Recently Eliot wrote an offline converter to convert from a Pharo image to a Spur Pharo image. Same issue, he had to edit the kernel (including SmallInteger class !) and it was so difficult that he did an offline converter instead of a script. I do not even know if a script would have been possible. With a bootstrap he would just have needed to edit the sources from which the bootstrap starts. I am astonished by the work you did and by the work of Guillermo Polito about the bootstrap, and I can't wait to have it and to use it. The first step is great. Please keep going. Regards, Clement 2014-05-29 20:14 GMT+02:00 Pavel Krivanek <[email protected]>: > Hi, > > I created the first versions of the jobs that should lead to Pharo 4 > partial bootstrapping based on configurations: > https://ci.inria.fr/pharo/view/4.0-Bootstrap/ [1] > > We are able to load configurations with SUnit and KernelTests. > ConfigurationOfIDE currently does not work [2]. We should focus on better > testing of the basic image. Unfortunately Tests package is one big bundle. > We should move at least this categories to different or standalone packages: > > Tests-Bugs > Tests-CodeImport > Tests-Compression > Tests-Files > Tests-Finalization > Tests-Object Events > Tests-ObjectsAsMethods > Tests-System > Tests-System-CommandLine > Tests-SystemChangeNotification > Tests-SystemTests-Support > Tests-Traits > Tests-Traits-MOP > Tests-VM > > Cheers, > -- Pavel > > [1] https://ci.inria.fr/pharo/view/4.0-Bootstrap/ > [2] > http://forum.world.st/ConfigurationOfIDE-and-issue-12601-td4759150.html >
