Re: Big Bang [Re: Proposal for Squeak 3.8 release schedule]

>> 2. Is Tweak meant to be something that can work on top of official
>> Squeak, or is it only targeted at Croquet? Croquet is currently not a
>> "fork" of Squeak, but it may very well turn out to become one. And if
>> the principal developers behind Tweak are the Croqueteers, it may
>> perhaps turn into something Croquet specific.

> That depends on your definition of "Squeak" and "Croquet". Some people take
> the (overly simplified) point of view that Croquet is ultimately about 3D
> environments but let me tell you: It is not. It is ultimately about
> collaboration and communcation and there are many different ways of doing
> this, some of which imply a 3D space (having the vast advantage of providing
> context for the collaboration and a natural model for navigating large
> spaces) and some of which don't. *All* of them, however will require a
> distributed, loosely coupled, secure messaging model of replicated
> computation between (mutually distrusting) objects and peers. Which is what
> we internally understand as "Croquet"; a much broader, much wider ranging
> collaboration architecture that includes many different areas of
> communication, many different classes of devices, many different user
> interfaces. (and yes, we really aren't there by a long shot but then again I
> will want to have something to work on five years from now ;-)

> Given that definition I can say with utter certainty that Tweak is meant to
> run on top of Croquet, with "collaboration builtin".