On 08/12/2010 03:58 PM, Ralph Boland wrote:
Some time back I posted (to Squeak) the idea of doing development using
two images. One image would be your development image, i.e. the image
you would eventually release as your product. It would be a
restricted version of the
image you have in Squeak/Pharo now.
The other image would be your software development tool image,
roughly analogous to what the Eclipse development environment is.
The advantage of such a set up would be that changes to your development image
would not blow up your tool image. You could also leave out anything from your
development image you didn't actually need in you product such as
perhaps editors, debuggers, windows, etc. depending upon what software
your product actually needed.
I have no plans to actually try this anytime soon.
But I am wondering:
Would RemoteSmalltalk be helpful in (be a foundation for) creating
such a utility?
In fact, the most ambitious effort in this direction is the stuff Craig
Latta did in Spoon. He created a "umbilical cord" on the VM level so he
could do really transparent remote debugging etc.
This was needed since he wanted to create a real minimal image, and he
got down below 100kb, but that was probably very hard to do without
these special "remote" tools.
regards, Göran
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