On 28. 05. 2011 15:35, Marcus Denker wrote:
There is *a lot* of dead code in the image.
I guess around 1/3 of the code base in Core is just not used at all (especially Morphic).
One thing I would like to do is to put, at the beginning of a development cycle, a call
self doesAnyOneUseThisTaggedIn: 'pharo 1.3'.
at the beginning of *all* unsent methods. And keep it even in the released image.
To automatically track any usage of such methods, add also: - email a stack of any such method call to cleanup watcher - tag such method and count its usage out of those emails - after a year or so purge all untagged methods This way image can actually be cleaned up without much angry guys out there, also without a lot of work if cleanup is automated. Best regards Janko -- Janko Mivšek Aida/Web Smalltalk Web Application Server http://www.aidaweb.si