On Tue, Aug 29, 2023 at 09:18:10PM -0400, Jim Rosenberg wrote:
So...should we remove Etoys from Trunk at this point?
***WHY***?????????
The rationale is simplicity and comprehension, primarily from the point of view of readers of the code in the Squeak image.
I am not advocating anything here WRT Etoys, but I would say that the Squeak image needs to be as simple, readable, and understandable as possible. Etoys is a wonderful thing but it can add quite a bit of cognitive clutter, and that is why the Etoys removal question is important.
You ***DON'T CARE*** about preserving eToys content.
I think that Marcel has introduced this discussion thread because he *does* care. I care about it too, and so do most of the other people who are going to reply to this thread :-)
I don't personally use eToys, but I care very much about Squeak as a content-development platform.
I agree :-)
This kind of speculation I find profoundly alarming.
But no I'm not alarmed. Preserving content (not "code" but real content) is important. It is also a hard problem, so I'm not alarmed to have that sort of discussion.
Dave