Regards, Gary
----- Original Message ----- From: "Schwab,Wilhelm K" <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Tuesday, March 17, 2009 1:13 AM Subject: Re: [Pharo-project] Removing more classes from Pharo > Ffenestri is a possible route to host windows. I am *not* a "native > widgets or bust guy" (emulation has its points, performance under scaling > being high on the list), but there are reasons to want to use host windows > too. I would hesitate to remove this too quickly, unless Pinesoft tells > us there is a better way to meet the objective. > > Compression probably does not need to be in the kernel, but IMHO it does > belong in Pharo 1.0. Ditto sounds. Sound is something that people will > expect in a well-rounded system. Zip compression is required by Monticello, of course ;-) > > I'm all for cleaning out cruft, but things that are part of the releases > are probably more likely to get seen, used, and therefore have bugs > detected. > > Bill > > > -----Original Message----- > From: [email protected] > [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Adrian > Lienhard > Sent: Monday, March 16, 2009 4:21 PM > To: Pharo Development > Subject: [Pharo-project] Removing more classes from Pharo > > In quest of modularizing Pharo and reducing its memory footprint, I > was wondering whether the following packages should be removed: > > - TrueType and related classes in Multilingual-Display (are obsolete > since we have FreeType, no?) > - Services (does not seem to be used, except by a subclass in Polymorph) > - Graphics-External-Ffenestri (why is this in the image??) > - Compression (I think, does not need to be in the kernel) > - Sound (dito) > - Traits-LocalSends and Traits-Requires (are not used) > - MorphicExtras (I assume at least some of those could extracted) > - ...? > > I would put these in a repository so they can be loaded if needed. The > extraction of some of these packages likely needs some work, but would > be a first step towards a more modular kernel. > > What do others think? > > Adrian > > ___________________ > http://www.adrian-lienhard.ch/ > > > _______________________________________________ > Pharo-project mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.gforge.inria.fr/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/pharo-project > > _______________________________________________ > Pharo-project mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.gforge.inria.fr/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/pharo-project _______________________________________________ Pharo-project mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gforge.inria.fr/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/pharo-project
