[Cuis-dev] which classes to have in Kernel

[Juan Vuletich]

Hi Jason,

That's exactly what we do, right? The base image includes only what is 
needed to support the Smalltalk environment. Standard packages in 
Packages folder. Additional packages in other repos in the 
Cuis-Smalltalk-Dev GitHub organization, and in author's repos at GitHub 
or other hosting services.

Cheers,

On 5/20/2022 8:00 PM, sp--- via Cuis-dev wrote:
> Arg - sorry - I didn't finish my last sentence before posting!  The 
> last sentence was meant to read:
>
> If we have these three levels then we can be relaxed about moving 
> things  that are not completely essential out of Kernel and into 
> *either the middle class or non-Kernel classes in the minimal image*.
>
>
> On 5/21/22 8:57 AM, sp at xeny.net wrote:
>> I'm a newcomer to Cuis but I've been thinking about this topic a lot 
>> and I have a concrete suggestion.  Please excuse me if I've 
>> misunderstood anything about the culture of Cuis.
>>
>> I think we need three levels of classes:
>>
>> 1. classes in the minimal image
>> 3. classes in ordinary packages
>>
>> and, less obviously, in between those two:
>>
>> 2. classes in packages that are expected to be the canonical classes 
>> for widely-used functionality (unicode is a very good example).  This 
>> is like the standard library in source-code-based systems, but since 
>> Cuis is image-based it would make sense to leave these classes out of 
>> the base image (or, almost equivalently, mark them in a way that 
>> makes them easy to remove from the base image).
>>
>> If we have these three levels then we can be relaxed about moving 
>> things that are not completely essential out of Kernel and into the 
>> middle class.
>>
>> Jason


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