Hi--
It's hard to work on core without good tools and this will become more painful the more we strip down core in the future.
But we all agreed that we need a stable core to build on top of it because there are also people who just require a core Smalltalk and not a full developer IDE or people who have their own IDE setup or want to do experiments.
...use something like Craig's Spoon to use the tools in one image to build a second customised image.
Yes, with remote browsers and debuggers you can have a pleasant development experience that is independent of the size of the kernel. The Spoon kernel has no need of the compiler, system dictionary, and all graphics support, for example. -C -- Craig Latta www.netjam.org/resume +31 6 2757 7177 + 1 415 287 3547