I was taking a look at Docker and I was inspired to dream about self contained pharo packages that package their dependencies with them, essentially being isolated and independent , bootstrap is more than welcomed. Keep up the great work :)
On Tue, Jan 19, 2016 at 8:54 PM Pavel Krivanek <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi, > > amazing! Do you have any idea how to speed up it? The bootstrap process is > now running on my machine about one and half hour and it is still far from > finish. > > Cheers, > -- Pavel > > 2016-01-19 15:29 GMT+01:00 Christophe Demarey <[email protected] > >: > >> Hi all, >> >> In case you do not know, we work on bootstrapping Pharo, i.e. create a >> Pharo image from sources, not based on a previous image (well, we use a >> pharo image to produce it but no code / state from it). >> >> This process will allow to define a minimal Pharo kernel (currently 52 >> packages but we could have it far smaller) and to modularize the whole >> image (currently packages have too much dependencies on packages already >> loaded into the image). >> The bootstrap process also allows to write down the recipe to initialize >> a new image from scratch (some code is missing in the image or is wrong). >> In addition, I think we will clean a lot of historical objects that are not >> used anymore. >> >> With the amazing work done by Guillermo Polito during his Phd (around >> Espell, Oz): >> https://guillep.github.io/files/publications/Poli15Thesis.pdf, *we >> succeeded to get a first prototype of a bootstraped Pharo 5 image (from >> 5.392)*. >> This prototype is able to run an eval command line handler and to log >> output / errors. Not all classes are yet initialized and you cannot yet >> save / restart this image but it is a big step forward. >> It is a 4 mb image (could be half the size without unicode data). You can >> download it at: >> http://chercheurs.lille.inria.fr/~demarey/pmwiki/pub/pharo-bootstrap/pharo-bootstrap.zip >> . >> >> Next steps are to have a bootstrapped image fully working, then to load >> packages on top of it (like network, sunit) to produce a minimal image. >> Then, we need to implement an Oz VM on top of Spur. >> After that, we need to work on a reliable way to build the bootstrap (not >> too sensitive to changes in the image). >> >> Christophe. >> >> ------- >> demarey@193-51-236-143:~/dev/rmod/bootstrap/bootstrap-2016-01-19$ >> ../pharo bootstrap.image --no-default-preferences eval "1 + 1" >> 2 >> demarey@193-51-236-143:~/dev/rmod/bootstrap/bootstrap-2016-01-19$ >> ../pharo bootstrap.image --no-default-preferences eval "'a' , 'b'" >> 'ab' >> demarey@193-51-236-143:~/dev/rmod/bootstrap/bootstrap-2016-01-19$ >> ../pharo bootstrap.image --no-default-preferences eval "1 / 0" >> ZeroDivide >> SmallInteger>>/ >> UndefinedObject>>DoIt >> OpalCompiler>>evaluate >> OpalCompiler(AbstractCompiler)>>evaluate: >> SmalltalkImage>>evaluate: >> >> EvaluateCommandLineHandler>>no (source is Undeclared) >> no source in EvaluateCommandLineHandler>>evaluate: in Block: no source >> BlockClosure>>on:do: >> EvaluateCommandLineHandler>>evaluate: >> EvaluateCommandLineHandler>>evaluateArguments >> EvaluateCommandLineHandler>>activate >> EvaluateCommandLineHandler class(CommandLineHandler class)>>activateWith: >> >> BasicCommandLineHandler>>no (source is Undeclared) >> no source in >> PharoCommandLineHandler(BasicCommandLineHandler)>>activateSubCommand: in >> Block: no source >> BlockClosure>>on:do: >> PharoCommandLineHandler(BasicCommandLineHandler)>>activateSubCommand: >> PharoCommandLineHandler(BasicCommandLineHandler)>>handleSubcommand >> PharoCommandLineHandler(BasicCommandLineHandler)>>handleArgument: >> >> BasicCommandLineHandler>>no (source is Undeclared) >> no source in PharoCommandLineHandler(BasicCommandLineHandler)>>activate >> in Block: no source >> BlockClosure>>on:do: >> PharoCommandLineHandler(BasicCommandLineHandler)>>activate >> PharoCommandLineHandler>>activate >> PharoCommandLineHandler class(CommandLineHandler class)>>activateWith: >> >> PharoCommandLineHandler class>>no (source is Undeclared) >> no source in PharoCommandLineHandler class>>activateWith: in Block: no >> source >> NonInteractiveUIManager(UIManager)>>defer: >> PharoCommandLineHandler class>>activateWith: >> no source in BasicCommandLineHandler>>activateSubCommand: in Block: no >> source >> BlockClosure>>on:do: >> BasicCommandLineHandler>>activateSubCommand: >> BasicCommandLineHandler>>handleSubcommand >> BasicCommandLineHandler>>handleArgument: >> no source in BasicCommandLineHandler>>activate in Block: no source >> >> SmallInteger>>no (source is Undeclared) >> >> UndefinedObject>>no (source is Undeclared) >> >> AbstractCompiler>>no (source is Undeclared) >> >> SmalltalkImage>>no (source is Undeclared) >> >> BlockClosure>>no (source is Undeclared) >> >> EvaluateCommandLineHandler>>no (source is Undeclared) >> >> EvaluateCommandLineHandler>>no (source is Undeclared) >> >> CommandLineHandler class>>no (source is Undeclared) >> >> BasicCommandLineHandler>>no (source is Undeclared) >> >> BasicCommandLineHandler>>no (source is Undeclared) >> >> PharoCommandLineHandler>>no (source is Undeclared) >> >> UIManager>>no (source is Undeclared) >> >> UndefinedObject>>no (source is Undeclared) >> >> CommandLineUIManager>>no (source is Undeclared) >> >> SmalltalkImage>>no (source is Undeclared) >> >> DelayMicrosecondScheduler>>no (source is Undeclared) >> >> BlockClosure>>no (source is Undeclared) >> >> SmalltalkImage>>no (source is Undeclared) >> >> WeakArray class>>no (source is Undeclared) >> >> >> ps: source cannot be displayed because there is no formatter available in >> the bootstrap >> >> >
