[Cuis-dev] creating a clean system

[Mark Volkmann]

It would be great to have that for Cuis! I think Juan plans to eventually
implement something along those lines to simplify app deployment.

On Mon, Mar 31, 2025 at 4:30 PM Stephen Travis Pope <
stephen at heaveneverywhere.com> wrote:

>
> In the old (PARCPlace) days, we had tools called strippers and whittlers
> for creating Smalltalk images for distribution to end-users. (They may
> still be part of the VisualWOrks system.)
>
> A stripper removed classes from the system that were generally not needed
> by apps: the compiler, coding tools, etc.
>
> A whittler attempted to remove classes and methods within classes that
> were not used by an app.  It started with classes/methods known to be
> needed (like the app’s start-up method) and divided the rest of the system
> into classes/methods that were used and those that could be dropped.
>
> stp
>
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>
> On Mar 30, 2025, at 8:39 AM, Juan Vuletich via Cuis-dev <
> cuis-dev at lists.cuis.st> wrote:
>
> On 3/29/2025 9:39 PM, Mark Volkmann via Cuis-dev wrote:
>
> I'm reading the book "Smalltalk-80 The Interactive Programming
> Environment". I understand this is an old book and much of what it
> describes is different in Cuis Smalltalk. Section 23.4 titled "Creating a
> Clean System" discusses a way to condense the changes file so it only
> contains a comment. Is there a way to do that in Cuis Smalltalk?
>
> --
> R. Mark Volkmann
> Object Computing, Inc.
>
>
> Yes. `Smalltalk condenseSources`.
>
> Cheers,
>
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