Marcus Don't bame yourself. You did a good job and of course we could have stop earth to turn on itself but got no time for that :) Now the cool news is that there is the cool CompiledMethodTrailer in pharo1.1 and the changes of david lewis that are waiting for you :).... Rest from your Ikea unfolding and building furnitures :) I should rest from projects writing but I have one to write.... and I want it. Stef
On Dec 28, 2009, at 11:27 AM, Stéphane Ducasse wrote:
Yes :)
Marcus would like to have code inside the image... since a couple of years :)
yes... Klaus Witzel worked on this some years ago (I think even after I told him that this would be high on my list... Klaus used to live in Bern and visited the Squeak meeting there regularly.)
This did not make it into 3.9... we ran a bit out of steam at the end :-)
Maybe I should explain that I did 3.9 in parallel to my PhD work. Unpayed, with no hidden side agenda other than the realization that one can't invent the future if one can not even fix a typo in a comment.
I think one could critisize that I just integrated other peoples fixes... but that had multiple reasons:
1) Focus was on the PhD.... and doing all these boring things that are a lot of work that one needs to do to have a future in Research.
2) Of what use is it to do some cool enancement for Squeak if chances of integration are zero? I never understood the brave people who did sent patch after patch with almost nothing ending up in the system.
3) Integrating is far less trivial than people might think.
Integrating is especially difficult in a system "with a history" like Squeak. But in the end, I think we did a good job with 3.9. Regardless of what people said afterwards... I guess now everyone agrees, after all those evil things we did that people crucified us for turned out to be not that bad after all.
Marcus
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