Sorry if this is seen as off-topic, as I realize the goal is to get Pharo-1.0 out the door, but I'm evaluating Pharo as the base for a potentially huge application. I'm interested in building a minimum image from a Pharo-core base. This image would have: - no GUI/mouse/keyboard. The only interface would be via network connections. - no processes/interrupts. The network send/receive would be synchronous via a plugin. - no timer. The date/time would be via a plugin on demand. - no fallback debugger. Any error fallback would log a message and abort via a plugin. - possibly a minimal interpreter that didn't include any support for those unavailable features. (The only value in this would be smaller size and hopefully something more comprehensible for code auditing purposes.) Why bother with Squeak/Pharo/Smalltalk at all, some may ask? I need a very reliable, *very* efficient, *very* powerful deployment platform, and at the same time a *very* powerful development environment so we can stay nimble. The proposed alternative is Java, which meets the points except on efficiency and development fronts. I've also been involved in a somewhat similar-scale project in the past, but the overwhelm of 100+k lines of Java code really bogged us down in the end. I'll look at GNU Smalltalk too, for deployment, but I'd *really* like to be running the identical code in development, test and production. Any gotchas? Any suggestions/hints? Just to tweak your interest further, the deployment platform would be z/OS running on IBM big iron! ../Dave