Let's see then..
Hilaire
Guille is spending hour one having a bootstrapped kernel based on pavel
images. with about 400 Mb and removing dependencies.
Everybody can help.
We aask a student to develop a nice tools to spot wrong dependencies:
lookat PharoExtras ToolsDependencyAnalyser
And send fixes.
Once the bootstrap arrives to a reasonable state we will work on
creating configuration of for image level.
I have been splitting (and still continuing) polymorph and removing some
complexity.
Now this is a *****DIFFICUL******* and not sexy (where is the fame?) to
reduce and modularise a system.
So if you are concerned about the size, give a try to help.
Le 24/11/2014 21:39, Esteban Lorenzano a écrit :
well… fthis days stay with the micro-concept of image sizes of ancient times
does not looks like a reasonable approach. Lots of conditions changed and
nowadays RAM is very cheap (and even tablets has enough of them)
but then, there are some points to observe that can help you:
- Pharo4 will not have 32m, this is still a alpha version. It will be a lot
smaller (I suppose a bit bigger than Pharo3, but not much more)
- We are also producing the Pharo-minimal images as part of the process, which
are stripped versions with (for now) 6m size. Of course this one does not have
a lot of things that has to be reintroduced if desired (like morphic), but I
think is easy to have an image smaller than 10m with all you need when going
production in a tablet.
now… about small is beauty. We incorporated a lot of new cool stuff (many that
no one will ever notice, or use), and we need to improve in the cleaning side…
there are tons of things to clean or remove there.
