Hi
I'm restarting to play with Squeak and I'm really familiar with the mailing-list so here is a list of questions I have:
**I would like to know if there is a way to propose new improvements for the smalltalk kernel.
For example: it could be really good to have an automatic initialization protocol like in Clos, to avoid to have to define everywhere this boring new ^ super new initialize
in CLOS the make-instance method is calling the initialize-instance for ALL the objects in the system. In Smalltalk, we would just have to redefine Behavior>>new to call Object>>initialize. We could let basicNew for emergency purpose.
**I tried several times to get automatic update from the server but I NEVER succeeded. Is there somethign wrong?
**The mailing list is quite buzy. Is there no plans to have a newgroup? I know that some of you think that Squeak is not ready for the mainstream people but this would help people that are interested to communicate more easily.
**Long time ago somebody said that I was starting to port the Refactoring Browser. Is this project still alive? I discussed with John Brant at OOPSLA and he told me that at the refactoring engine level he did not see problems.
**I tried Squeak 2.6 on Unix and I got a lot of error linked with the BallonEngine, while on the mac and PC I got no problem at all.
** The uiuc server is often pretty difficult to obtain. Yesterday for the first time I was able to play with the music (just because I never thought before that I could download another midi file). It could be fun to have a small set of midi file on the Squeak ftp site too.
Stephane DUCASSE (ducasse@iam.unibe.ch) http://www.iam.unibe.ch/~ducasse/ "if you knew today was your last day on earth, what would you do different? ... especially if, by doing something different, today might not be your last day on earth" Calvin&Hobbes
University of Bern, Institut fuer informatik and Mathematik IAM-SCG, 10 neubruckstrasse, CH-3012 Bern, Switzerland.