Bob Arning wrote:
Morphic right from the start? As far as these change set go Morphic is there, but they represent additions to Squeak 1.31. Not sure about earlier versions. So the question is
Was there ever a version of Squeak without Morphic? Jecel, you know?
Juan has already replied that Morphic was added to 1.19 (the versions I remember before that were 1.13, 1.16, 1.17 and 1.18). Note that even 1.31 started up in a MVC project and you had to open a new Morphic one to play around with that. This was inverted in 2.0, I think.
One issue is that 1998 is not "the start" at all. You might think that not much is missing when you lack under two years, but it is important to remember that the rate of development of the Squeak project was amazing in the beginning compared to what we are now used to. That is actually common for a low of projects. So one version doesn't have networking at all, and then next you have a web browser that tries to play Flash pages.
In terms of lines of code, on the other hand, the rate of development got faster as time went on rather than slower. This isn't so obvious if you do some statistics on the various images because there were several times when a lot of code was removed from the official images. So if you look at one image and it has 40% more classes/methods/lines of code than an older one but the older one can sing "Silent Night" and the new one can't, then the number is smaller than it should be.
Sam Adam asked about extending this back in time (I guess it would have to be through Apple Smalltalk-80 and then back through Xerox Smalltalks) and I mentioned a two year gap. It might be a neat idea to convert the earlier changes into the same format (a lot of the needed information can be found in the archives for this mailing list) and number them -1, -2, etc...
-- Jecel