Hi, I am working in the RMoD team (INRIA) in a project called Seed. One of the tasks of the project is to identify those mandatory classes that should be part of Pharo kernel. Currently, Pharo kernel has some "unhappy dependecies". We are using Moose + Glamour to create a tool (a browser) that help up with this task. The idea is to start by loading in our browser the classes used in the SpecialObjectsArray and then iterate to add dependencies incrementally. This way we will be able to detect smells and "blacklist" methods we don't want to be part of our kernel.

During this days we will have a working version of our browser to start the analysis.
If you want to take a look, search for Seed on SqueackSource.
We will be sharing our findings in the Pharo mailing list.




Regards,
NicoPaez.