This is amazing. I can't wait to have a bootstrap.��

You cannot - well I guess you specifically can but most people can't - realize how difficult it is currently to edit some Kernel classes such as MethodContext. I edited it for Pharo-40003 and it was really hard. With a bootstrap it will be much simpler.

Recently Eliot wrote an offline converter to convert from a Pharo image to a Spur Pharo image. Same issue, he had to edit the kernel (including SmallInteger class !) and it was so difficult that he did an offline converter instead of a script. I do not even know if a script would have been possible. With a bootstrap he would just have needed to edit the sources from which the bootstrap starts.

I am astonished by the work you did and by the work of Guillermo Polito about the bootstrap, and I can't wait to have it and to use it.

The first step is great. Please keep going.

Regards,

Clement



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2014-05-29 20:14 GMT+02:00 Pavel Krivanek <pavel.krivanek@gmail.com>:
Hi,

I created the first versions of the jobs that should lead to Pharo 4 partial bootstrapping based on configurations:
https://ci.inria.fr/pharo/view/4.0-Bootstrap/ [1]

We are able to load configurations with SUnit and KernelTests. ConfigurationOfIDE currently does not work [2]. We should focus on better testing of the basic image. Unfortunately Tests package is one big bundle. We should move at least this categories to different or standalone packages:

Tests-Bugs
Tests-CodeImport
Tests-Compression
Tests-Files
Tests-Finalization
Tests-Object Events
Tests-ObjectsAsMethods
Tests-System
Tests-System-CommandLine
Tests-SystemChangeNotification
Tests-SystemTests-Support
Tests-Traits
Tests-Traits-MOP
Tests-VM

Cheers,
-- Pavel

[1] https://ci.inria.fr/pharo/view/4.0-Bootstrap/
[2]��http://forum.world.st/ConfigurationOfIDE-and-issue-12601-td4759150.html