On Jul 6, 2011, at 10:56 PM, Pavel Krivanek wrote:
Hi Marcus,
add this line to the initCore.st script on CI server:
ActiveHand instVarNamed: #targetOffset put: 0@0.
Done and build started: https://ci.lille.inria.fr/pharo/job/Pharo%20Kernel%20Reload/
this will fix the testTargetPoint. The second and last failing tests is related to compressed unicode tables in the kernel image. I will prepare the code that will regenerate this tables.
The second option is to disable call of privShrinkUnicodeTables method in privShrinkingProcess. The resultant kernel and gofer images will be bigger. The question is if we will shrink this tables by default.
I am in general not happy how resources are right now stored in the image... the only way right now is to either have them just there as objects, non-recreateble or people store stuff (fonts, bitmaps) as strings (or ByteArrays) in methods. This is not nice... but of course MC can store it and so its the only option. We should think about having an in-image, virtual file-system with all the static stuff... maybe this could even be per package and serialized with MC as part of the package? The MC packages now have already two sets of duplicated data: source (in the .st file) and the MC History data... which should not be underestimated: MC wastes right now 4MB of 13.5 MB in 1.4, In addtion, the fact that we have to wirite to .changes when loading a package is far from nice... it would be better of packages would be self-contained and the system would get the source from them. Marcus -- Marcus Denker -- http://www.marcusdenker.de INRIA Lille -- Nord Europe. Team RMoD.