On Fri, Jul 22, 2016 at 9:12 PM, Pavel Krivanek
<[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> as you maybe know, we are working on Pharo image bootstrap - the process
> that can generate an image from source codes and initialize it correctly.
> Because of practical reasons we do not bootstrap the standard image at once
> but we are trying to bootstrap a small headless kernel image and then load
> the rest of the system into it.
>
> The good news is that we are successful in our effor. We are already able to
> produce well usable images as you can test here:

Great to hear of your continuing progress.

>
> https://goo.gl/fn1VbP
>
> From the Pharo/Squeak point of view this image is very special because it
> doesn't contain any object inherited from 70's. Pharo lost its umbilical
> cord.

Does this mean you are starting with a zero byte file and adding nil,
true, false, etc...?
Or what is the size of the image you start with?

cheers -ben

>
> Notice that the initial display width is too narrow and and we still need a
> lot of work on the building process, but In the next weeks and months it
> will change a lot the Pharo development - especially as soon as it will be
> combined with Git support.
>
> Cheers,
> -- Pavel
>
>

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