Hi Pavel This is super excellent! IMPRESSIVE. An image without the compiler and a reloadable compiler. Super cool.
Stef On Tue, Aug 1, 2017 at 11:57 AM, Pavel Krivanek <pavel.kriva...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hello, > > we are checking a huge pull request #177 > (https://github.com/pharo-project/pharo/pull/177) that will change some > basics of the bootstrap process: > > Now we will bootstrap a smaller image that will not include compiler/parser. > Compiler and related packages are exported and loaded using a binary > exporter named Hermes. > The compiler is then used to load FileSystem and Monticello. The rest of the > bootstrap process will be the same as before. > As the result we will have faster bootstrap and better system modularization > and possibilities. > > It required some modularization efforts: > > - simplified initialization scripts > - Use Zinc converters and encoders instead of FilePathEncoder and old > TextConverter > - Use Stdio instead of FileStream > - Using File instead of FileSystem > - Deprecated FileStream & childs (Moved to Deprecated70) > - Extracted Path classes to their on package: FileSystem-Path > - Moved OpalEncoders to their own package. They are required by the runtime > (not only for compilation) > - Introduced AsciiCharset in the kernel to answer to #isLetter #isUppercase > and so on without requiring full Unicode tables from the beginning > - Cleaning up a bit the full exception logging infrastructure (streams, > transcript, files, stack printing...) > - Split Ring methods required for system navigation to the Ring-Navigation > package > - Remove usages of #translated in the kernel > - Refactored the bootstrapping classes to remove duplications > - Cleaning up dependencies in CompiledMethod>>printOn: > - fix path printing > > We need to merge these changes at once and of course it can cause some > conflicts with the existing pull requests or external code. Anyway, we need > to merge it as soon as possible. > > So please, try to look at the PR and test the resultant image [1] to avoid > some major problems. > > [1] > https://ci.inria.fr/pharo/view/7.0/job/70-PR-Check-Load/lastSuccessfulBuild/artifact/bootstrap-cache/Pharo7.0-32bit-9c0691d.zip > > Cheers, > -- Pavel >
