[Cuis] Cuis base image reduced by 25%!

[H. Hirzel]

On 6/26/13, Juan Vuletich <juan at jvuletich.org> wrote:
> Hi Folks,
>
> A few days ago I started playing with the idea of extracting
> non-essential functionality into .pck.st files. The result is that I
> could reduce Cuis by about 25%. Now it is below 500 classes and below
> 100kLOC :) .

Congratulations. Amazing!

 The new packages are:
>
> - Compression
> - Graphic-Files-Additional (only png and tiff, as bmp and jpg are in the
> base image)
> - Sound
> - Theme-Themes (Only the default class Theme is included in the base image)
> - Network-Kernel
> - LinearAlgebra
> - Test
>
> If you update your image, all this code will be removed. If you download
> the updated image, it is no longer there. The packages themselves are
> also available at github, together with a txt file with a possible load
> order. I hope you'll find this more convenient when contributing code.
>
> There are several open questions, and I ask for your opinions and thoughts.
>
> 1) The "official" Cuis image can have none/some/all of these preloaded.
> We need to allow for clean unload of packages, but if there are no
> overrides, I think it is not a big deal. I'm not sure what's best. Maybe
> all these packages (and maybe others) should be preloaded by default.
>
> 2) I'm starting to believe that it is best to have those packages that
> are kept up to date in the same git repo as the base image. This will
> make it very easy to know what is the proper snapshot of some package to
> be used with a particular Cuis update level. Besides, it makes sense to
> have a Cuis-Smalltalk organization. Therefore I created
> https://github.com/Cuis-Smalltalk , although I haven't saved anything
> there yet. I'd like to discuss with you the repositories to keep and
> their structure. I think that we might store there those packages that
> are preloaded, and those that are well maintained and actually used. But
> on the other hand, folks wanting to have better control of their code
> might prefer to host them in their own repositories...
>
> After all this, https://github.com/jvuletich/Cuis should be deleted or
> marked as historic.
>
> BTW, there are a few other fixes and enhancements in this last batch of
> updates. #reduceCuis now produces a 3.6Mb image with less than 80kLOC.

Useful for scripting purposes.

--Hannes

> Another tweak was to no longer kill the active changeset on image save.
> I hope this fits people who usually save the dev image at the end of the
> day.
>
> Let's discuss and think of better ways to manage the Cuis codebase.
>
> Cheers,
> Juan Vuletich
>
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