El lun, 11-10-2010 a las 10:56 +0200, Stéphane Ducasse escribió: > 12188 > ----- > > - Issue 3086: MCMethodDefinition>>shutdown hack to avoid lock down. > - Issue 2875: PharoKernel Part 11. Thanks Pavel Krivanek and Nicolas Paes >
Now that John Maloney has released MicroSqueak as MIT (http://web.media.mit.edu/~jmaloney/microsqueak/) shouldn't be worth to analize it and see if that can be used as an alternative to build the Pharo Kernel. I know that Pavel (and now also Nicolas) have done a lot of work in getting PharoCore stripped to a minimal kernel. But as I understand, PharoKernel idea is to part from a core image, reorganize packages, _unload_ what isn't needed and then shrink the image to get a kernel image. The approach of John Maloney's MicroSqueak is the inverse, parting from a source code representation and from there to aggregate code until have a full image. Of course the image from John hasn't all the improvements that Squeak and Pharo have made to the core classes and that will mean a lot of effort to reapply in order to get a modern image. But I wonder, and not meaning to discourage any possibility, if isn't worth to discuss the technical effort required and the pros/cons of each approach and if isn't possible a reutilization of knowledge for this very wanted goal of Pharo. Cheers -- Miguel Cobá http://miguel.leugim.com.mx _______________________________________________ Pharo-project mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gforge.inria.fr/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/pharo-project
