[Cuis-dev] creating a clean system

[Stephen Travis Pope]

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.

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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`.
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