Hi, when the Pharo 7 image is being built on top of the bootstrapped image, all loaded code is placed in the changes file so this process ends with an empty sources file, huge changes file and the image. We condense the sources file for every build so we distribute the Pharo 7 as three files - image, huge sources (over 30 MB) and almost empty changes file. As consequence every build has own sources file that can be shared between images based on the same build - so when we will release the Pharo 7, the sources file can be shared as it was for previous releases, but as soon as some fixing version of Pharo 7 will be released, it will require a new specific sources file. As one possible solution I tried to create a pull request that resurrects from oblivion an old code made for Squeak 3.7 that introduced option of compressed sources files. Such files use segments that are stored in compressed form so it is not so small as one single zip file but still good enough. From original uncompressed file of size 30.8 MB it generates 7.1 MB file while single zip has 6.1 MB. Of course the image file is bigger but: - the amount of new objects is low so it should not make much more stress on GC - we already used to have big images because the condenser was not working and it was not a big issue - the amount of distributed files will be the same as in case of Pharo 6 (image+changes) so it means less troubles - the sources file can be easily restored, deleted from the object memory and used the same way as before - we are not using the nice concept of the image well enough. All data that are not really shared between images or serve as backup information should be stored inside image Please review this PR. As a side effect it makes the sources file mechanism (but not changes file) independent on the FileStream classes that are deprecated. PR: https://github.com/pharo-project/pharo/pull/631 The pre-built image: https://ci.inria.fr/pharo-ci -jenkins2/job/Test%20pending%20pull%20request%20and%20branch%20Pipeline/job/PR-631/ lastSuccessfulBuild/artifact/bootstrap-cache/Pharo7.0-32bit-57ddc75.zip Cheers, -- Pavel