I thought it would be useful for you to know some of our near- and far-term plans.
Beginning around June 4, we're going to hunker down and focus on some of our internal work. For probably a month, then, you can expect fewer updates and fewer messages from us. I haven't really figured this one out, though. We might keep putting out updates, but batched up in large groups. I just have to figure a scheme that doesn't take up a lot of our time.
Until that time, though, we will continue to clean up and publish updates for the 2.0 release. Here is a rough outline of where this activity will center over the next week:
Improve the convenience and effectiveness of removing parts of Squeak. Hopefully this will culminate in a simple 'majorShrink' that will produce an up-to-date image for WinCE and palm-top machines Our goal of the past has been full development in a 1MB image, and a usble subset that runs (with VM and free sapce) in a 1MB partition.
Rework the mouseOver logic in Morphic to reduce overhead, and eliminate quirks like multiple active scrollbars.
Release a couple of goodies that didn't make it into the release Morphic support for translucency (Michael Stevens), and Show-invisible-characters mode (Reinier van Loon)
Make it easier to import fonts, images, and active morphs from remote archives via the fileList.
- Dan