If you start with a minimal imaqe, it's not obvious to me how you'd add a missing class and pull in all of its dependencies (which can be voluminous). And for a large application, there could be many, many missing classes. This sounds rather arduous.
Tim Mackinnon wrote > There has been a lot of great work on this front on the Pharo side from > the "team" and PharoLambda has made use of it (although it's a tiny > project). > > My footprint is ~22mb including vm & image. And leaving out sources. > > The ./scripts directory has the example of how to do it, along side the > .gitlab-ci.yml file. > > Unlike the commercial distributions (and this may have changed recently), > there is a minimal image you can have download, which has enough to > bootstrap loading your project via metacello. There are no browser tools > or morphic things in the starting image I have chosen. > > You can potentially get smaller - but it's a decent result. The only bit I > added was to remove testcases (optional), and clear down metacello. > > It's probably worthy of a blog post - but honestly the running example is > pretty straight forward. > > The commercial tools all have a decent "strip dead code" tool, that does a > similar thing in reverse - which is equally a decent way of approaching > the problem and can lead to even tinier results. > > Tim > > Sent from my iPhone > >> On 21 Aug 2017, at 21:25, horrido < > horrido.hobbies@ > > wrote: >> >> I received this comment on Facebook: >> >> Smalltalk is a fantastic language and its development environment can't >> be >> beat... But the documentation for the many open source implementations is >> contradictory or confusing or missing. I can't speak for the commercial >> versions. Without an experienced mentor it is not possible to create a >> complex app. And even when you have done so, *I know no way to strip out >> the >> unused part of the image as well as the embedded source code*. >> ----- >> >> This issue of stripping out unused code seems to recur a lot. And truth >> be >> told, I've never seen a clear explanation of how to do this. Can someone >> provide clear direction? Is this documented anywhere? I'd like to use the >> information in future to assuage other people's concerns. >> >> Thanks. >> >> >> >> -- >> View this message in context: >> http://forum.world.st/Minimizing-an-Application-tp4963262.html >> Sent from the Pharo Smalltalk Users mailing list archive at Nabble.com. >> -- View this message in context: http://forum.world.st/Minimizing-an-Application-tp4963262p4963349.html Sent from the Pharo Smalltalk Users mailing list archive at Nabble.com.
