On Nov 24, 2014, at 8:34 PM, Esteban Lorenzano <estebanlm@gmail.com> wrote:

yes, we are slowly moving in the opposite direction of ��all maintained in the image��, and eventually we plan/dream to have a small kernel and a bunch of configurations to produce Pharo.

This is good. Because we are niche, the ��all maintained in the image�� strategy never really had a chance.

The Python "barely an interpreter that can import anything�� strategy is wildly successful so I believe in the minimal kernel, friendly to the terminal that can grow from any direction strategy