Hi eliot

I asked mariano to improve ImageSegment for his PhD and he convinced me that there are better things to do: Marea and Fuel and Ghost. So I'm really happy to hear that this code will be removed - even if I understand that retiring an old soldier is also a little bit sad moment :).

s.

Hi Bert, Hi All,

On Thu, Sep 15, 2016 at 2:55 PM, <commits@source.squeak.org> wrote:

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http://lists.squeakfoundation.org/pipermail/packages/2016-September/068930.html

Name: System-bf.916
Ancestors: System-bf.915

Replace VM-level ImageSegment loading with a Smalltalk implementation for old (interpreter-era) projects.

Also removes support for writing segments.

This overrides the Spur support introduced in System-eem.758.

��So one question is should we delete VM support for ImageSegment from the Spur VM?�� There's at least 1.5k of generated source for the Spur ImageSegment load and save support, some 2% of the interpreter/primitives source code.�� That's a lot, and the code is complex and ugly.�� If it never really worked before IMO we should nuke it asap.�� If it worked in some fashion perhaps we can schedule its demise for the 6.0 release's VM.

What do others think?

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best,��Eliot